Humanists of North Central Florida (HNCFL) is a group of readers. We love to share our finds. Here is a list of some books that you may find interesting from a Humanist, Feminist or Science perspective.*
| Title | Author |
| Against All Gods | A.C. Grayling |
| American Gospel | Jon Meacham |
| American Theocracy | Kevin Phillips |
| Apes, Angels and Victorians: The Story of Darwin, Huxley and Evolution | William Irvine |
| Atheist Universe | David Mills |
| Autobiography | Bertrand Russell |
| Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon | Daniel Dennett |
| Calling Bernadette’s Bluff | Dale McGowan |
| Celebrities in Hell | Warren Allen Smith |
| Darwin’s Dangerous Idea | Daniel Dennett |
| Doubt | Jennifer Hecht |
| Ever Since Darwin | Stephen Jay Gould |
| Everything You Know About God Is Wrong | Russ Kick |
| Evil Little Things: A Study of the Women Who Shaped Secular Humanist and Atheist Activism in post World War II America | Sylvia Broeckx |
| Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith | Charles Templeton |
| Fear, Fact, Faith, Fantasy | John Henderson |
| Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism | Susan Jacoby |
| God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens |
| God, the Failed Hypothesis | Victor Stenger |
| Good Without God | Greg Epstein |
| Half the Sky | Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn |
| Hitch 22 | Christopher Hitchens |
| How to Read Darwin | Mark Ridley |
| In Praise of Doubt | P. Bergen, A. Zyderveld |
| Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism | Michelle Goldberg |
| Letter to a Christian Nation | Sam Harris |
| Losing Faith In Faith | Dan Barker |
| Love Wins | Rob Bell |
| Meditations of a Humanist | A.C. Grayling |
| Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul | Edward Humes |
| Moral Minority – Our Skeptical Founding Fathers | Brooke Allen |
| New World New Mind | Ornstein & Ehrlich |
| No God But God | Reza Aslan |
| No Gods – No Masters | Annie Laurie Gaylor |
| Primate’s Memoir | Robert Sapolsky |
| Russell – A Very Short Introduction | A.C. Grayling |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan |
| Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi, PhD |
| The Age of American Unreason | Susan Jacoby |
| The Amazing Deception: A History of Christianity | Doyle Duke |
| The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) Book 3 | Phillip Pullman |
| The Ancestor’s Tale | Richard Dawkins |
| The Battle For God – A History of Fundamentalism | Karen Armstrong |
| The Best of Robert Ingersoll | Roger Greeley, ed. |
| The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design | Richard Dawkins |
| The Born Again Skeptics Guide To The Bible | Ruth Green |
| The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution | Elaine Morgan |
| The Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science and Love | Richard Dawkins |
| The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow | Larson & Marshall |
| The Faith of a Heretic | Walter Kaufmann |
| The Family | Jeff Sharlet |
| The Flamingo’s Smile | Stephen Jay Gould |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins |
| The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) Book 1 | Phillip Pullman |
| The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking |
| The Impossible H.L. Mencken | Marion Elizabeth Rodgers |
| The Mighty and the Almighty | Madeleine Albright |
| The Moral Landscape | Sam Harris |
| The Mysterious Flame | Colin McGinn |
| The Mystery of Things | A.C. Grayling |
| The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason | Victor Stenger |
| The Portable Atheist | Christopher Hitchens |
| The Richness of Life | Stephen Jay Gould |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials) Book 2 | Phillip Pullman |
| Transcendental Meditations | Paul Kurtz |
| Under the Banner of Heaven | John Krackauer |
| Uppity Women of Ancient Times | Vicki Leon |
| Warriors of God – Richard the Lionheart & Saladin | James Reston |
| What Is Good – The Search for the Best Way to Live | A.C. Grayling |
| What’s God Got To Do With It? | Robert Ingersol |
| Why Evolution Is True | Jerry A. Coyne |
| Why I Am Not a Christian | Bertrand Russell |
| With God on Their Side: G.W. Bush and the Christian Right | Ester Kaplan |
| Woe to the Woman – The Bible Tells Me So | Annie Laurie Gaylor |
| Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America | Ellen Chesler |
For and About Children
| Atheism for Kids | Jessica Thorpe |
| Cells for Kids | Nishi Singh |
| Enjoy Your Cells | Frank Balkwill |
| Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be | Daniel Loxton |
| Gene Machines | Frank Balkwill |
| Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution | Jonathon Tweet and Karen Lewis |
| Have A Nice DNA | Frank Balkwill |
| How: A Day in the Life of a Young Humanist | Michelle Iturrate |
| Humanism, What’s That? A Book for Curious Kids | Helen Bennett |
| Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children | Dan Barker |
| Me and Dog | Eric Shansby and Gene Weingarten |
| Older Than the Stars | Karen Fox and Nancy Davis |
| Our Family Tree | Lisa W Peters and Lauren Stenger |
| Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion | Dale McGowen |
| Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief | Dale McGowen |
| The Story of Life: A First Book About Evolution | Catherine Barr and Steve Williams |
| What is Humanism? How Do You Live Without a God? And Other Big Questions for Kids | Michael Rosen and Annemarie Young |
Science
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| Big Bang | Simon Singh |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan |
| God and the Atom, From Democritus to the Higgs Boson, the Story of a Triumphant Idea | Victor J. Stenger |
| God and the Multiverse, Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos | Victor J. Stenger |
| The Elegant Universe | Brian Greene |
| The Fabric of the Cosmos | Brian Greene |
| The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us | Victor J. Stenger |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes |
| Welcome to the Universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael Strauss, J. Richard Gott |
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*Thanks to the Humanist Society of Gainesville for their help in compiling this list.
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