The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Content: Introduction / Christopher Hitchens ---
Lucretius, from De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), Book I, translated by W. Hannaford Brown ---
Omar Khayyám, from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : a paraphrase from several literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne ---
Thomas Hobbes, Of religion, from Leviathan ---
Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-political treatise ---
David Hume, The natural history of religion
 Of miracles ---
James Boswell, An account of my last interview with David Hume, Esq. ---
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A refutation of deism ---
John Stuart Mill, Moral influences in my early youth, from Autobiography ---
Karl Marx, Contribution to the critique of Hegel\'s Philosophy of right ---
George Elliot, Evangelical teaching ---
Charles Darwin, Autobiography ---
Leslie Stephen, An agnostic\'s apology ---
Analote France, Miracle ---
Mark Twain, Thoughts of God, from Fables of man
 Bible teaching and religious practice, from Europe and elsewhere and A pen warmed up in Hell ---
Joseph Conrad, Author\'s note to The shadow line ---
Thomas Hardy, God\'s funeral ---
Emma Goldman, The philosophy of atheism ---
H.P. Lovecraft, A letter on religion ---
Carl Van Doren, Why I am an unbeliever ---
H.L. Mencken, Memorial service ---
Sigmund Freud, from The future of an illusion, translated and edited by James Strachey ---
Albert Einstein, Selected writings on religion ---
George Orwell, from A clergyman\'s daughter ---
John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey ---
Chapman Cohen, Monism and religion
 An old story ---
Bettrand Russel, An outline of intellectual rubbish ---
Philip Larkin, Aubade
 Church going ---
Martin Gardner, The wandering Jew and the Second Coming ---
Carl Sagan, The demon-haunted world
 The God hypothesis ---
John Updike, from Roger\'s version ---
J.L. Mackie, Conclusions and implications, from The miracle of theism : arguments for and against the existence of God ---
Michael Shermer, Genesis revisited : a scientific creation story ---
A.J. Ayer, That undiscovered country ---
Daniel C. Dennett, Thank goodness! ---
Charles Templeton, from A farewell to God, A personal word
 Questions to ask yourself ---
Richard Dawkins, Why there almost certainly is no God
 Gerin oil
 Atheists for Jesus ---
Victor Stenger, from God : the failed hypothesis, Cosmic evidence ---
Daniel C. Dennett, A working definition of religion, from \"Breaking which spell?\" ---
Elizabeth Anderson, If God is dead, is everything permitted? --
Penn Jillette, There is no God ---
Ian McEwan, End of the world blues ---
Steven Weinberg, What about God? from Dreams of a final theory ---
Salman Rushdie, \"Imagine there\'s no Heaven\" : a letter to the six billionth world citizen ---
Ibn Warraq, The Koran
 The totalitarian nature of Islam ---
Sam Harris, In the shadow of God, from The end of faith ---
A.C. Grayling, Can an atheist be a fundamentalist? from Against all gods ---
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, How (and why) I became an infidel.