Reading Lists HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
  • In Search of God : The Language and Logic of Belief by Daniel Kolak
  • The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form by Henry Bugbee
  • Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship by Alan Watts
  • Divine Hiddeness and Human Reason by J.L. Schellenberg
  • Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time by Robert A. Martin

Books I'm Currently Reading
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes
Postmodern Pooh (Rethinking Theory) by Frederick Crews
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Books I Want to Read (In the Queue)

Giles Goat Boy by John Barth
The Sot Weed Factor
by John Barth

Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Oneself as Another by Paul Ricoeur
The God Who May Be: The Hermeneutics of Religion by Richard Kearney
Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan by Bernard Lonergan, et al
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk - An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael Balter
Life After Death : A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion by Alan F. Segal

Brain & Belief: An Exploration of the Human Soul by John J. McGraw
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall & Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Human Origins : The Fossil Record by Clark Spencer Larsen, et al
Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott


Some Books I've Read: LITERATURE & LITERARY CRITICISM

Democracy/Esther/Mont Saint Michel and Chartres/The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Four Plays : The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Complete Works by W. H. Auden
Mimesis: Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach
Complete Novels by Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Wrong Side of Paris by Honore de Balzac
Lost Illusions by Honore De Balzac
A Harlot High and Low by Honore De Balzac
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Collected Stories by Saul Bellow

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl Verse Translations by Marie Borroff
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Post Office
by Charles Bukowski

Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Women by Charles Bukowski
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Earthly Powers
by
Anthony Burgess
The Kingdom of the Wicked
by
Anthony Burgess

Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough
Junky by William S. Burrough
The Soft Machine
by William S. Burrough

Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burrough
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Major Works by Lord Byron
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Rebel by Albert Camus
The Complete Stories and Poems by Lewis Carroll
Where I'm Calling From : Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Complete Poetry and Prose by Geoffrey Chaucer
Stories by John Cheever
Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Playback by Raymond Chandler
Ivanov/The Seagull/Uncle Vanya/Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition) by Anton Chekhov
Awakening by Kate Chopin
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad

Three Novels by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim & Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
by Robert Coover

Gasoline & the Vestal Lady on Brattle by Gregory Corso

Elegiac Feelings American by Gregory Corso

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Selected Poems by James Dickey
Deliverance by James Dickey
The White Album by Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Where I Was From by Joan Didion

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Separate Flights by Andre Dubus
Adultery & Other Choices by Andre Dubus
Finding a Girl in America: A Novella and Ten Short Stories by Andre Dubus
The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet (4 Volumes) by Lawrence Durrell

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

Ten Plays by Euripides
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Go Down Moses and Other Stories by William Faulkner
Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion by William Faulkner
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Magus by John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye
The Recognitions by William Gaddis

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Loving; Living; Party Going by Henry Green
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Nibelungenlied Translated by A. T. Hatto
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Iliad and Odyssey (Boxed Set) by Homer
The Lively Image: Four Myths In Literature By Richard Hughes
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce
Sound of Mountain and House of Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin [Poetry]

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterly's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism Edited by Vincent B. Leitch
Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays by Christopher Marlowe
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham

Moby Dick
by Herman Melville

Billy Budd and Other Stories
by Herman Melville

Typee by Herman Melville
Omoo by Herman Melville
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
by Henry Miller

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch
The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails by Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities Vol. 2: Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers by Robert Musil
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris
Three: Wise Blood/Violent Bear It Away/Everything Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
1984
by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Naked Masks: Five Plays by Luigi Pirandello
Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
Essay on Man and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
Selected Poems by Ezra Pound
V by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
The Remembrance of Things Pass (Six Volumes) by Marcel Proust
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Two Novels: Jealousy & In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Topology of a Phantom City by by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
My Life as a Man by Philip Roth
Zuckerman Bound (4 volumes) by Philip Roth
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Complete Novels by Jean Rhys
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Song of Roland by Dorothy L. Sayers
Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest by Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormely Semeiks
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Seven Plays by Sam Shepard
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Penitent by Isaac Bashevis Singer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Complete Plays by Sophocles
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Translated by Brian Stone
Tristan and Isolde by Gottfried von Strassburg

Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux
The Poems by Dylan Thomas

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad & Roughing It by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper/A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court/Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
The Aeneid by Virgil
Candide by Voltaire
Philosophical Dictionary by Francois Voltaire
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman
Complete Works by Oscar Wilde
Major Works by William Wordsworth
Germinal by Emile Zola
Nana by Emile Zola
The Earth by Emile Zola
The Debacle by Emile Zola


Some Books I've Read: CRITICAL THINKING & BELIEF

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (7th Edition) by M. Neil Browne & Stuart M. Keeley
Becoming a Critical Thinker: A Guide for the New Millennium by Robert Todd Carroll
The Skeptic's Dictionary by Robert Todd Carroll
Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments by T. Edward Damer
Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual (3rd Edition) by Sherry Diestler
Critical Thinking by Alec Fisher
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich
The Biology of Belief: How Our Biology Biases Our Beliefs and Perceptions by Joseph Giovannoli
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey
Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety by Wendy Kaminer
I Know What It Says...What Does It Mean? Critical Skills for Critical Reading by Daniel Kurland
Science, Reason, and Anthropology: A Guide to Critical Thinking by James William Lett
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life by Richard Paul & Linda Elder
Inevitable Illusions : How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Tales of the Rational : Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science by Massimo Pigliucci
Tools of Critical Thinking: Metathoughts for Psychology by David A. Levy
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
How We Believe : Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Second Edition) by Michael Shermer
The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Stuart A. Vyse


Some Books I've Read: RELIGION, ANCIENT NEAR EAST, CRITICISM, & RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM

What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? by A. K. M. Adam
Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology by Paul J. Achtemeier, et al
The Archaeology of Syria (c.16,000-300 BC) by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
A History of Christianity: From the Beginnings to the Threshold of the Reformation by Kurt Aland
A History of Christianity: From the Reformation to the Present by Kurt Aland
Greek New Testament: With English Introduction including Greek/English Dictionary by Kurt Aland
Synopsis of the Four Gospels : Completely Revised on the Basis of the Greek Text of the Nestle Aland by Kurt Aland
The Text of the New Testament by Kurt Aland & Barbara Aland
A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period (Vol 1): From Beginnings to End of Monarchy by Rainer Albertz
A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period (Vol 2): From the Exile to the Maccabees by Rainer Albertz
From the Stone Age to Christianity: Monotheism and the Historical Process by William F. Albright
Archaeology of Palestine by William F. Albright
Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: An Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths by William Albright
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth by John Marco Allegro
Philosophy for Understanding Theology by Diogenes Allen
Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology by Diogenes Allen & Eric O. Springsted
Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet by Dale C. Allison
The "God" Part of the Brain by Matthew Alper
Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps by Jensine Andresen, et al
Critiques of God: Making the Case Against Belief in God by Peter A. Angeles
Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
Three Views on the Rapture by Gleason L. Archer
New International Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties by Gleason L. Archer
Infini Rien: Pascal's Wager and the Human Paradox by Leslie Armour
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
In the Beginning : A New Interpretation of Genesis by Karen Armstrong
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
Guide to the Bible : The Old and New Testaments (2Vols. in One) by Isaac Asimov
Qumran Cave 4: Parabiblical Texts, Part 1 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, No 13) by Harold Attridge, et al

Confessions by Saint Augustine
The City of God by Saint Augustine
Leaving The Fold: Testimonies Of Former Fundamentalists by Edward T. Babinski
Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
The Temple and the Lodge by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch by David W. Baker
The Hidden God: The Hiding of the Face of God in the Old Testament by Samuel E. Balentine
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist by Dan Barker
New Testament Background : Selected Documents: Revised and Expanded Edition by Charles K. Barrett
The Gospel According to St. John: An Introduction With Commentary and Notes on the Greek Text by Charles K. Barrett
What the Bible Really Says by Manfred Barthel
Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition by Bernhard F. Batto
Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East by Don Benjamin & Victor Matthews
The Origins of Christianity and the Bible by Andrew D. Benson
Ebla: A Revelation in Archeology by Chaim Bermant
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary by Jeremy A. Black
The Pentateuch : An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible by Joseph Blenkinsopp
Sage, Priest, Prophet: Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel by Joseph Blenkinsopp
Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection by Harold Bloom
The One Purpose of God: An Answer to the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment by Jan Bonda
Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by Marcus J. Borg
The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus & the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
Meaning of Jesus : Two Visions by Marcus J. Borg & N Wright
The Son of Man in Myth and History by Frederick Borsch
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero
Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices by Mary Boyce
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul by Jan Bremmer
A History of Israel by John Bright
Covenant and Promise: The Prophetic Understanding of the Future in Pre-Exilic Israel by John Bright
Readings In The Philosophy Of Religion: An Analytic Approach by Baruch A. Brody
Tradition And Imagination: Revelation And Change by David Brown
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon by Francis Brown
Introduction to the New Testament (Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Raymond E. Brown
The Gospel According to John I-XII (Anchor Bible Series, Vol. 29) by Raymond E. Brown
The Gospel According to John XIII-XXI (Anchor Bible, Vol 29, Part A) by Raymond Edward Brown
An Introduction to the Gospel of John (Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Raymond E. Brown
The Gospel and Epistles of John: A Concise Commentary by Raymond E. Brown
The Origins of Christianity: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament by Schuyler Brown
Revelation and Violence: A Study in Contextualization by Walter Brueggemann
An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy by Walter Brueggemann
Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes by Walter Brueggemann
The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce
Ramayana Translated by William Buck

Mahabharata by William Buck
Cosmic Consciousness by Richard M. Bucke
Can We Be Good Without God?: Biology, Behavior, and the Need to Believe by Rob Buckman
Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish by Earnest Wallis Budge
Kerygma and Myth: A Theological Debate by Rudolf Bultmann
Jesus Christ and Mythology by Rudolf Bultmann
The New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings by Rudolf Bultmann
Theology of the New Testament by Rudolf Bultmann
Primitive Christianity In Its Contemporary Setting by Rudolf Bultmann
Jesus and the Word by Rudolf Bultmann
Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler
The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound by Anthony F. Buzzard & Charles F. Hunting
Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion by Peter Byrne
The Moral Interpretation of Religion (Reason and Religion) by Peter Byrne
The Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan
Bible Prophecy: Failure or Fulfillment? by Tim Callahan
Institutes of the Christian Religion (Two Volumes in One) by John Calvin
The Masks of God (Vol 1): Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God (Vol 2): Occidental Mythology by Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God (Vol 3): Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God (Vol 4): Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Transformations of Myth Through Time by Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion by Joseph Campbell
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll
Exegetical Fallacies by D. A. Carson
The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism by D. A. Carson
Documents for the Study of the Gospels by David R. Cartlidge & David L. Dungan
The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick
Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations by Mark W. Chavalas
The Origin of Biblical Traditions: Hebrew Legends in Babylonia and Israel by Albert T. Clay
The Mind of the Bible Believer by Edmund D. Cohen
An Essay on Belief and Acceptance by L. Jonathan Cohen
Who's Who in Christianity by Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
The Complete Guide to Bible Versions by Philip W. Comfort
Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria by George Contenau
Stories from Ancient Canaan by Michael David Coogan
History of The People of Israel by Carl Heinrich Cornill
Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook (The Context of Early Christianity, 1) by Wendy Cotter
Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations by Arthur Cotterell
Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology by William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith
Four Views on Hell by William V. Crockett
Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel by Frank Moore Cross
From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel by Frank Moore Cross
The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant by John Dominic Crossan
Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated by John Dominic Crossan
The Birth of Christianity by John Dominic Crossan
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan
The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images by John Crossan
In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom by John Dominic Crossan
Emotion and Religion: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography by Eric Crump, et al
The Christology of the New Testament by Oscar Cullmann
Emptiness & Brightness by Don Cupitt
Reforming Christianity by Don Cupitt
The Religion of Being by Don Cupitt
Taking Leave of God by Don Cupitt
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others by Stephanie Dalley
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Journey of Awakening : A Meditator's Guidebook by Ram Dass
The Only Dance There Is by Ram Dass
Last Days Madness: Obsession of the Modern Church by Gary Demar
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? by William G. Dever
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? by William G. Dever
Did God Have A Wife?: Archaeology And Folk Religion In Ancient Israel by William G. Dever
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Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions by T.W. Doane
The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? by Earl Doherty
Challenging the Verdict: A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ" by Earl Doherty
Birth of a Worldview: Early Christianity in its Jewish and Pagan Context by Robert Doran
Origins: Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Doria
Nonbelief & Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God by Theodore M. Drange
The Christ Myth (Westminster College-Oxford Classics in the Study of Religion) by Arthur Drews
The Legend of Saint Peter by Arthur Drews
The End of the Bronze Age by Robert Drews
Canaanite Myths and Legends by Godfrey Rolles Driver
Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death by C. J. Ducasse
Bhagavad Gita Translated by Eknath Easwaran
The Upanishads Translated by Eknath Easwaran
The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran
Your Life is Your Message : Finding Harmony With Yourself, Others, and the Earth by Eknath Easwaran
Dialogue With Death: A Journey Through Consciousness by Eknath Easwaran
The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science by Taner Edis
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: Effect of Early Christological Controversies on Text of NT by Bart D. Ehrman
Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
James the Brother of Jesus: Key to Unlocking Secrets of Early Christianity and Dead Sea Scrolls by Robert Eisenman
A History of Religious Ideas (Vol 1) : From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
A History of Religious Ideas (Vol 2): From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity by Mircea Eliade
A History of Religious Ideas (Vol 3): From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms by Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade
Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World) by Mircea Eliade
Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade
The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others by Alexander Eliot
The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, Sacred, and Scientific Mythology by Alexander Eliot
Jesus: One Hundred Years Before Christ by Alvar Ellegard
What Is Social-Scientific Criticism? by John H. Elliott
The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in English Translation by J. K. Elliott
The God of Ecstasy: Sex-Roles and the Madness of Dionysos by Arthur Evans
The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative As History by C. Stephen Evans
Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation by Craig A. Evans
Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion by Christopher A. Faraone
New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors by Gordon D. Fee
How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth: A Guide To Understanding The Bible by Gordon D. Fee
How to Read the Bible Book by Book by Gordon D. Fee
Backgrounds of Early Christianity by Everett Ferguson
Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity by Everett Ferguson
History, Hope, Human Language, & Christian Reality by Everett Ferguson
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
The Essence of Religion by Ludwig Feuerbach
Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism by David Fideler
Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working Introduction to Textual Criticism by Jack Finegan
Myth and Mystery: An Introduction to Pagan Religions of the Biblical World by Jack Finegan
History of Christian Doctrine by George Park Fisher
The Ideology of Religious Studies by Timothy Fitzgerald
The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher
Python: A Study of the Delphic Myth and Its Origin by Joseph Fontenrose
Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox

Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Carroll Forrest & Paul R. Gross
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
Jesus and the Lost Goddess : The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman
The Hidden Book in the Bible by Richard E. Friedman
Commentary on the Torah by Richard E. Friedman
The Bible with Sources Revealed by Richard E. Friedman
Destined for Salvation: God's Promise to Save Everyone by Kalen K. Fristad
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture & Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation by Kenneth L. Gentry
The Beast of Revelation by Kenneth L. Gentry
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
Canaanite Myths and Legends by John Gibson
Anthropology of Religion by Stephen D. Glazier
The End of Magic by Ariel Glucklich
Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? : The Search For The Secret Of Qumran by Norman Golb
The Sword of the Prophetby Robert Goldston
Introduction to Protestant Theology by Helmut Gollwitzer
God of Abraham by Lenn Evan Goodman
Jews in a Graeco-Roman World by Martin Goodman

The Bible and the Ancient Near East by Cyrus H. Gordon
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
Hebrew Myths by Robert Graves
The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Religion and Moral Reason: A New Method for Comparative Study by Ronald Michael Green
101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History by Gary Greenberg
Bible Myth: The African Origins of the Jewish People by Gary Greenberg
Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought by Moshe Greenberg
Revelation: Four Views : A Parallel Commentary by Steve Gregg
The Millennial Maze: Sorting Out Evangelical Options by Stanley J. Grenz

Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion by Stewart Elliott Guthrie
The Code of Hammurabi by Robert Francis Harper
Fundamentalism and Evangelicals by Harriet A. Harris
Mythology's Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus by William R. Harwood
The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of Creation by Alexander Heidel
Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels by Alexander Heidel

Gospel Fictions by Randel Helms
Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel Helms
The Torah and Its God: A Humanist Inquiry by Jordan Jay Hillman
The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop
History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine, Vol. 1 by Philip K. Hitti

History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine, Vol. 2 by Philip K. Hitti
Judaism's Strange Gods by Michael A. Hoffman II
Celsus, on the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians Translated by Joseph Hoffmann
Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains Translated by Joseph Hoffmann
Middle Eastern Mythology by S. H. Hooke
Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus by Richard A. Horsley
Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder by Richard A. Horsley
The Church Before Christianity by Wes Howard-Brook
Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now by Wes Howard-Brook
Yahweh's Wife: Sex in the Evolution of Monotheism by Arthur Frederick Ide
Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman
Some Mistakes of Moses by Robert G. Ingersoll
Christianity Before Christ by John G. Jackson
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge Edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson
The Jewish Religion: A Companion by Louis Jacobs

The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion by Thorkild Jacobsen
Tanakh: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text by Jewish Publication Society
Jerome, Greek Scholarship, and the Hebrew Bible: A Study of the Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim by Adam Kamesar
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament by Craig S. Keener
Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar by Page H. Kelley
What Does the Bible Really Say About Hell?: Wrestling With the Traditional View by Randolph J. Klassen
The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Israel Knohl
Introduction to the New Testament 1: History and Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age by Helmut Koester
Introduction to the New Testament 2: History and Literature of Early Christianity by Helmut Koester
When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife by Ross Shepard Kraemer
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History by Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians : Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
Sumerian Mythology: Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in Third Millennium B.C. by Samuel Noah Kramer
The Historical-Critical Method by Edgar Krentz
In Search of Zarathustra : The First Prophet and the Ideas That Changed the World by Paul Kriwaczek
The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible by James L. Kugel
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal by Paul Kurtz
The Problem of Hell by Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Story of Christian Origins by Martin A. Larson
Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East by David Leeming
The Fabrication of the Christ Myth by Harold Leidner
The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Resurrection Of Christ: A Historical Inquiry by Gerd Ludemann
What Really Happened to Jesus: A Historical Approach to the Resurrection by Gerd Ludemann
The Great Deception: And What Jesus Really Said and Did by Gerd Ludemann
Jesus After 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did by Gerd Ludemann
Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity by Gerd Ludemann
Primitive Christianity: A Survey of Recent Studies and Some New Proposals by Gerd Ludemann
The Unholy in Holy Scripture: The Dark Side of the Bible by Gerd Ludemann
Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment?: A Debate by Gerd Ludemann and William Lane Craig
Paul: The Founder of Christianity by Gerd Ludemann
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics by C. S. Lewis
Selections From His Writings by Martin Luther
The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor (Ancient Peoples and Places Series) by J. G. MacQueen
The Lost Gospel : The Book of Q and Christian Origins by Burton L. Mack
Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack
The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy by Burton L. Mack
Matthew (Anchor Bible) by C.S. Mann
Mark : A New Transaltion (Anchor Bible) by Patrick Mann
The View from Nebo: How Archeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East by Amy Dockser Marcus
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification by Michael Martin
Atheism, Morality, and Meaning by Michael Martin
The Case Against Christianity by Michael Martin
The Impossibility of God by Michael Martin
The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ: Separating Fact from Fiction by Gerald Massey
Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God? by Keith A. Mathison
Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope by Keith A. Mathison
Old Testament Parallels (Fully Expanded and Revised) by Victor H. Matthews & Don C. Benjamin
A Brief History of Ancient Israel by Victor H. Matthews
Social World of the Hebrew Prophets by Victor H. Matthews

Archaeology of the Land of the Bible (10,000 - 586 BCE) by Amihai Mazar
The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays by Joseph McCabe
The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict Fully Updated by Josh McDowell
Christian Theology: An Introduction by Alister E. McGrath
The Christian Theology Reader by Alister E. McGrath
To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application by Steven L. McKenzie & Stephen R. Haynes
Biblical Errancy: A Reference Guide by C. Dennis McKinsey
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy by C. Dennis McKinsey
What is Form Criticism? by Edgar V. McKnight

A Marginal Jew - Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 1: The Roots of the Problem and the Person by James Meier
A Marginal Jew - Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2: Mentor, Message, and Miracles by James Meier
A Marginal Jew - Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 3: Companions and Competitors by James Meier
The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible by Daniel Merkur
The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience by Daniel Merkur
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration by Bruce M. Metzger
The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Bruce M. Metzger
The Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions by Bruce Manning Metzger
Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger
The Oxford Companion to the Bible by Bruce M. Metzger, et al
A History of Ancient Israel and Judah by J. Maxwell Miller & John H. Hayes
Judaisms and their Messiahs at the Turn of the Christian Era by Jacob Neusner
Naturalism Without Foundations by Kai Nielsen
Naturalism and Religion by Kai Nielsen

Philosophy & Atheism by Kai Nielsen
Contemporary Critiques of Religion by Kai Nielsen
The Zoroastrian Faith: Tradition and Modern Research by S.A. Nigosian
The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C. by Hans J. Nissen
Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan
The Holy Quran by Allamah Nooruddin
The Suffering Servant in Deutero-Isaiah: An Historical and Critical Study by Christopher R. North
Agape and Eros by Anders Nygren
Babylon (Ancient Peoples and Places) by Joan Oates
Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric by Stephen D. O'Leary
Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel by Saul M. Olyan

Rites and Rank by Saul M. Olyan
The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto
Mysticism: East and West by Rudolf Otto
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters by Elaine Pagels
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs: A Comparative Study of Genesis I. 2 by A. Smythe Palmer
Samson Saga and Its Place in Comparative Religion by A. Smythe Palmer
Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (Writings from the Ancient World) by Dennis Pardee
Universal Salvation?: The Current Debate by Robin A. Parry & Christopher H. Partridge
Four Views on the Book of Revelation by C. Marvin Pate
The Emergence of the Church: Context, Growth, Leadership & Worship by Arthur G. Patzia
The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon by Arthur G. Patzia
What Is Redaction Criticism? by Norman Perrin
The New Testament: Proclamation and Parenesis, Myth and History by Norman Perrin & Dennis C. Duling
God and Evil: An Introduction to the Issues by Michael L. Peterson
The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings by Michael L. Peterson
God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga

Warrant: The Current Debate by Alvin Plantinga
Faith & Rationality: Reason & Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga

God and Other Minds by Alvin Plantinga
What Is Narrative Criticism by Mark Allan Powell
Exodus 1-18 : A New Translation with Notes and Comments (Anchor Bible) by William H. Propp
The Faces of God: Canaanite Mythology As Hebrew Theology by Jacob Rabinowitz
Greek Myths and Christian Mystery by Hugo Rahner
Collapse of the Bronze Age: The Story of Greece, Troy, Israel, Egypt, and the Peoples of the Sea by Manuel Robbins
Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology by John M. Robertson
The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Revised Edition by James M. Robinson
The Hebrew Goddess (Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) by Raphael Patai
Deconstructing Jesus by Robert M. Price
The Ancient Near East (Volume I) by James Bennett Pritchard
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement by James Bennett Pritchard
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? by Robert M. Price
The Encyclopedia of Superstitions by E. Radford
Putting Away Childish Things: The Virgin Birth, the Empty Tomb, and Other Fairy Tales... by Uta Ranke-Heinemann
Skeptics and True Believers by Chet Raymo
Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times by Donald B. Redford

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt by Donald B. Redford
The Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion by Donald B. Redford
Akhenaten: The Heretic King by Donald B. Redford
Evil and a Good God by Bruce Reichenbach
On the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Philip Blair Rice
The River of God : A New History of Christian Origins by Gregory J. Riley
Resurrection Reconsidered: Thomas and John in Controversy by Gregory J. Riley
The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East by Michael Roaf
Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux
God and the Problem of Evil by William Rowe
When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
Dictionary of Biblical Imagery by Leland Ryken, et al
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Acharya S
Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled by Acharya S

Jesus and Judaism by E.P. Sanders
The Historical Figure of Jesus by E. P. Sanders
Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion by E.P. Sanders
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (4 Volumes Bound in 2 Books) by Jack M. Sasson
Paul the Convert : The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee by Alan Segal
Divine Hiddeness and Human Reason by J.L. Schellenberg
How the Bible Became a Book : The Textualization of Ancient Israel by William M. Schniedewind
Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries by Edouard Schure
Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment by Robert Sheaffer
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
Gospel Truth by Russell Shorto
The Bible Unearthed by Neil Asher Silberman & Israel Finkelstein
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
Why Atheism? by George H. Smith
The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith
The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts by Mark S. Smith
The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith
Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century by Mark S. Smith

Handbook of Biblical Criticism by Richard N. Soulen & R. Kendall Soulen
Genesis (Anchor Bible, Vol 1) by Ephraim A. Speiser
Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence
Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe by Victor J. Stenger
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732-332 BCE) by Ephraim Stern
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors by Douglas Stuart
Farewell to God : My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith by Charles Templeton
History of the Ancient Near East: Ca. 3000-323 BC by Marc Van De Mieroop
Prologue to History: The Yahwist As Historian in Genesis by John Van Seters
In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History by John Van Seters
The Life of Moses: The Yahwist As Historian in Exodus-Numbers by John Van Seters
The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentry by John Van Seters

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls by Geza Vermes
Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament by John H. Walton, et al
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts
The Book : On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
Nature, Man and Woman by Alan W. Watts
Behold the Spirit : A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion by Alan W. Watts
Psychotherapy East and West by Alan W. Watts
Does It Matter? by Alan W. Watts
Joyous Cosmology by Alan W. Watts
Beyond Theology by Alan W. Watts
Become What You Are : Expanded Edition by Alan W. Watts

Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown : A Mountain Journal by Alan W. Watts
This Is It : and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience by Alan W. Watts
The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
The Jesus Myth by G. A. Wells
The Historical Evidence for Jesus by G.A. Wells
Is it God's Word by Joseph Wheless
Forgery in Christianity: A Documented Record of the Foundations of the Christian Religion by Joseph Wheless
The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Jesus by Michael O. Wise
Inanna by Diane Wolkstein
Persia and the Bible by Edwin M. Yamauchi
No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe by Matt Young
Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches by Ziony Zevit
The Jesus the Jews Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu & Quest of Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources by Frank R. Zindler

Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, & Companions Consulted

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version

The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version
The Holy Bible: New Oxford Annotated NRSV Bible with Apocrypha (Third Edition)
The Holy Bible: King James Version (1611 Edition)
The Holy Bible : New International Version
The Holy Bible: New American Standard
The Holy Bible: Young's Literal Translation
HarperCollins Study Bible: NRSV (with Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books)
The New Jerusalem Bible
The New Testament Translated by Richmond Lattimore
Concordant Literal New Testament With Keyword Concordance Translated by A. E. Knoch
The Original New Testament Translated by Hugh Schonfield
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text by Jewish Publication Society
Hebrew-English Tanakh
The Greek New Testament: With English Introduction
Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland Edition)
Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament by John R. Kohlenberger III
Interlinear Greek-English Interlinear New Testament by Robert K. Brown & Philip W. Comfort
The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew/Greek/English by Jay P. Green Sr.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible: Classic Edition by James Strong
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Strong's Concordance Numbers) by Joseph Thayer
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature by Walter Bauer, et al
Complete Dead Sea Scrolls by Geza Vermes
Nag Hammadi Library in English: Revised Edition by James M. Robinson
The Gospel of Thomas Translated by Marvin Meyer
Four Gnostic Gospels Translated by Marvin Meyer
Lost Books of the Bible Bell 1979 Edition
Lost Scriptures by Bart D. Ehrman
The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden by Frank Crane

The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version by Robert J. Miller
The Five Gospels by Robert W. Funk
Apocrypha: Authorized Version
IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament by John H. Walton, et al
IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament by Craig S. Keener, et al
The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 Volume Set)

Anchor Bible Commentaries
Jewish Encyclopedia (12 Volumes)
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (12 Volumes)
Collegeville Bible Commentary: Old Testament (NAB)

Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament (NAB)
Collegeville Atlas of the Bible
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (5 Volume Set)
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary by Raymond Edward Brown
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by E. A. Livingstone
Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Oxford Bible Commentary by John Barton & John Muddiman
Oxford Dictionary of the Bible by W. R. F. Browning

Oxford Companion to the Bible by Bruce M. Metzger & Michael D. Coogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World by Michael David Coogan
Oxford Guide to Ideas & Issues of the Bible by Bruce M. Metzger & Michael D. Coogan
Oxford Guide To People And Places Of The Bible by Bruce M. Metzger & Michael D. Coogan

Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible by J. W. Rogerson
Cambridge History of the Bible - Volume 1: From the Beginnings to Jerome Edited by P. R. Ackroyd
Cambridge History of the Bible - Volume 2: The West From the Fathers to The Reformation Edited by G. W. H. Lampe
Cambridge History of the Bible - Volume 3: The West From the Reformation to the Present Day Edited by S. L. Greenslade

Cambridge Companion to the Bible Edited by Howard Clark Kee, et al
Cambridge Companion to the Gospels Edited by Stephen C. Barton
Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation Edited by John Barton
Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine Edited by Colin E. Gunton
Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics Edited by Robin Gill
Cambridge Companion to Jesus Edited by Markus Bockmuehl
Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology Edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Cambridge Companion to St Paul Edited by James D. G. Dunn
Cambridge Companion to Augustine Edited by Eleonore Stump

Cambridge Companion to Aquinas Edited by Norman Kretzmann
Cambridge Companion to John Calvin Edited by Donald K. McKim
Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther Edited by Donald K. McKim
Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology Edited by David Bagchi
HarperCollins Bible Commentary - Revised Edition Edited by James L. Mays

HarperCollins Bible Dictionary Edited by Paul J. Achtemeier
Dictionary of Biblical Imagery by Leland Ryken, et al
Dictionary of New Testament Background by Craig A. Evans, et al
Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments by Ralph P. Martin, et al

Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels by Joel B. Green, et al
Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship) by Gerald F. Hawthorne, et al
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch by David W. Baker, et al
Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs by David W. Bercot, et al
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Second Edition by Everett Ferguson, et al
Studies in the Cult of Yahweh (Volume 1) Edited by Morton Smith, et al
Studies in the Cult of Yahweh (Volume 2) Edited by Morton Smith, et al
Library of Early Christianity - Volume 1: Gods and the One God by Robert McQueen Grant

Library of Early Christianity - Volume 2: The New Testament in Its Social Environment by John E. Stambaugh & David L. Balch
Library of Early Christianity - Volume 3: Early Biblical Interpretation by James L. Kugel
Library of Early Christianity - Volume 4: Moral Exhortation, A Greco-Roman Sourcebook by Abraham J. Malherbe
Library of Early Christianity - Volume 5: Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity by S.K. Stowers

Library of Early Christianity - Volume 6: The Moral World of the First Christians by Wayne A. Meeks
Library of Early Christianity - Volume 7: From the Maccabees to the Mishnah by Shaye J. D. Cohen
Library of Early Christianity - Volume 8: The New Tesament in Its Literary Environment by D.E. Aune
The Christian Tradition - Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition 100-600 by Jaroslav Pelikan

The Christian Tradition - Volume 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom 600-1700 by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Christian Tradition - Volume 3: The Growth of Medieval theology 600-1300 by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Christian Tradition - Volume 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma 1300-1700 by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Christian Tradition - Volume 5: Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture Since 1700 by Jaroslav Pelikan
Penguin History of the Church - Volume 1: The Early Christian Church by Henry Chadwick
Penguin History of the Church - Volume 2: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by Richard William Southern
Penguin History of the Church - Volume 3: The Reformation by Owen Chadwick
Penguin History of the Church - Volume 4: The Church and the Age of Reason, 1648-1789 by Gerlad R. Cragg

Penguin History of the Church - Volume 5: The Church in an Age of Revolution by Alexander Roper Vidler
Penguin History of the Church - Volume 6: Christian Missions by Stephen Neill
Baker's Dictionary of Theology by Everett F. Harrison, et al

Ante-Nicene Fathers (10 Volumes)
Ancient Records of Egypt (5 Volumes)

The Babylonian Talmud (18 Volumes)
Josephus - Complete and Unabridged
Philo - Complete and Unabridged
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Vol. 1): Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments by James H. Charlesworth
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Vol. 2): Legends, Wisdom, Philosophical Literature, Prayers... by James H. Charlesworth


Some Books I've Read: CREATIONISM/INTELLIGENT DESIGN & SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY/EVOLUTION

Darwins Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge To Evolution By Michael J. Behe
Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate by Tim Berra
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
A Devil's Chaplain : Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
The Origin of Species (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series) by Charles Darwin
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William A. Dembski
Mere Creation; Science, Faith & Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge
Scientists Confront Creationism by Laurie Godfrey
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould

Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation by David G. Hagopian, et al
Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher
Evolution : The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory by Edward J. Larson
Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution by Edward J. Larson
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time by Robert A. Martin
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
The Mythmaker's Magic: Behind the Illusion of "Creation Science" by Delos B. McKown
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
Science and Creationism by Ashley Montagu
From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationism by John A. Moore
Three Views on Creation and Evolution by James Porter Moreland, et al
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences by NAS
The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers
Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, Scientific Perspectives by Robert T. Pennock
Unintelligent Design by Mark Perakh
Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science by Massimo Pigliucci
Science & Theology: An Introduction by J. Polkinghorne
Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? by Michael Ruse
The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse
Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott
God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Niall Shanks
Not by Design: The Origin of the Universe by Victor J. Stenger
The Fourth Day: What the Bible and the Heavens Are Telling Us About Creation by Howard Van Till
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism by Matt Young & Taner Edis

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Some Books I've Read: PHILOSOPHY, CRITICAL THEORY, & PSYCHOLOGY

The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson
Basic Works by Aristotle
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Major Works by Sir Francis Bacon
Irrational Man : A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Principles of Human Knowledge/Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
Postmodern Theory by Steven Best
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown
Love's Body by Norman O. Brown
Apocalypse And/or Metamorphosis by Norman O. Brown
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project by John D. Caputo
More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are by John D. Caputo
The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought by John D. Caputo
Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics by John D. Caputo
Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language by Ernst Cassirer
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms : Volume 2: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms : Volume 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge by Ernst Cassirer
Selected Works by Cicero
The Nature of the Gods by Cicero
Essential Writings by Auguste Comte
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism by Steven Connor
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation by Donald Davidson
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze
Deconstruction and Pragmatism by Jaques Derrida, et al
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Jacques Derrida
The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
Course In General Linguistics by Ferdinand Desaussure
Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy and Principles by Rene Descartes
The Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Art of Living by Epictetus
The Epicurus Reader by Epicurus
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Desiderius Erasmus
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
The Foucault Reader
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
Truth and Method by Hans Georg vonneer
Philosophical Hermeneutics by Hans Georg Gadamer
The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley J. Grenz
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
The Philosophy of History by G. F. W. Hegel
The Hegel Reader by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Identity and Difference by Martin Heidegger
Ontology by Martin Heidegger
Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin Heidegger
What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger
Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas by David Held
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume
The Essential Husserl by Edmund Husserl
The Cambridge Companion to Husserl
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Pragmatism by William James
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
The Meaning of Truth by William James
Philosophy of Existence by Karl Jaspers
Way to Wisdom : An Introduction to Philosophy, Second Edition by Karl Jaspers
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by Carl Gustav Jung
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung
Symbols of Transformation by Carl Gustav Jung
Mysterium Coniunctionis by Carl Gustav Jung
The Development of Personality by Carl Gustav Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung
Synchronicity by Carl Gustav Jung
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav Jung
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Gustav Jung
Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
Critique of Religion and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann
Religion from Tolstoy to Camus by Walter Kaufmann
The Faith of a Heretic by Walter Kaufmann
Existentialism by Walter Kaufmann
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard
The Essential Kierkegaard
Philosophical Texts by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Basic Philosophical Writings (Studies in Continental Thought) by Emmanuel Levinas
Time and the Other by Emmanuel Levinas
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
Nature of Things by Lucretius
Postmodernity by David Lyon
The Postmodern Condition: Theory and History of Literature, Vol 10 by Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Postmodern Debates by Simon Malpas
The Philosophy of Existentialism by Gabriel Marcel
Capital by Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Pragmatism : A Reader by Louis Menand
The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object by Franklin Merrell-Wolff

Pathways Through To Space by Franklin Merrell-Wolff

Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Primacy of Perception by M. Merleau-Ponty
Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Sense and Nonsense by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Complete Works by Michel Montaigne
Introduction to Phenomenology by Dermot Moran
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype by Erich Neumann
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
Amor and Psyche by Erich Neumann
The Principia by Isaac Newton
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
An Introduction to Existentialism by Robert G. Olson
Common Sense/The Crisis/Rights of Man/The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Pensees and Other Writings by Blaise Pascal
Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory by Michael Payne
Complete Works by Plato
The Enneads by Plotinus
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Beyond Psychology by Otto Rank
Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development by Otto Rank
Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul by Otto Rank
In Quest of the Hero by Otto Rank
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1 : Philosophical Papers by Richard Rorty
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Volume 2 : Philosophical Papers by Richard Rorty
Truth and Progress: Volume 3 : Philosophical Papers by Richard Rorty
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian : And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
Works by Lucian of Samosata
Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
On Religion by Friedrich Schleiermacher
Hermeneutics and Criticism by Friedrich Schleiermacher
The World As Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism by Stuart Sim
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity by Gregory Bruce Smith
Introduction to Phenomenology by Robert Sokolowski
Complete Works by Benedict de Spinoza
The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies by David Stove

Against the Idols of the Age by David Stove
Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult by David Stove

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel Unamuno
Teach Yourself Postmodernism by Glenn Ward
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead
Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead
Modes of Though by Alfred North Whitehead
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Blue & Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Zettel by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods

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Some Books I've Read: HISTORY

The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop
DK Atlas of World History by Jeremy Black
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History by Norman F. Cantor
Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
Medieval Reader by Norman F. Cantor
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor
The Story of Civilization (Vol 1): Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 2): The Life of Greece by Will Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 3): Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 4): The Age of Faith by Will Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 5): The Renaissance by Will Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 6): The Reformation by Will Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 7): The Age of Reason Begins by Will & Ariel Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 8): The Age of Louis XIV by Will & Ariel Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 9): The Age of Voltaire by Will & Ariel Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 10): Rousseau and Revolution by Will & Ariel Durant
The Story of Civilization (Vol 11): The Age of Napoleon by Will & Ariel Durant

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Ancient Mediterranean by Michael Grant
From Alexander to Cleopatra by Michael Grant
The Twelve Caesars by Michael Grant
The Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome by Michael Grant

The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant
History of Rome by Michael Grant

The History of Ancient Israel by Michael Grant
The Etruscans by Michael Grant
Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times by Michael Grant
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A Reappraisal by Michael Grant

The Army of the Caesars by Michael Grant
Julius Caesar by Michael Grant
The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition by Michael Grant
The Timetables of History : A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events by Bernard Grun
A Preface to History by Carl G. Gustavson
The Histories by Herodotus
The Oxford History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes
Quantitative Methods for Historians: A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics by Konrad H. Jarausch & Kenneth A. Hardy
The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Early History of Rome by Livy
The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Greek Lives: A Selection of Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch
Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives : Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero by Plutarch
The New History of the World by J. M. Roberts
Ancient History: From the First Civilizations to the Renaissance by J. M. Roberts
A Guide to Historical Method by Robert Jones Shafer
The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by Richard William Southern
A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
The Encyclopedia of World History by Peter N. Stearns
On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State by Joseph R. Strayer
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Historians on History by John Tosh
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman
Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman

History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography by Norman J. Wilson


Some Books I've Read: SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS

The Origin of the Universe by John D. Barrow
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow & Frank J. Tipler
Quantum Theory by David Bohm
A Beginner's Guide to Scientific Method by Stephen S. Carey
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method by Morris R. Cohen & Ernest Nagel
What Science Is and How It Works by Gregory N. Derry
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein
Scientific Method in Practice by Hugh G. Gauch Jr
Understanding Scientific Reasoning by Ronald N. Giere
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

Genetics: A Beginner's Guide by B. Guttman, et al
The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes ... Theory of Everything by Paul Halpern
Genetics by Leland Hartwell
A Brief History of Time : The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition by Stephen W. Hawking
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe by Stephen W. Hawking

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. Hawking
The Future of Spacetime by Stephen W. Hawking

Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy by Robert M. Hazen
Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory by W. Heisenberg
The New Quantum Universe by Tony Hey
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Scientific Approach by Carlo Lastrucci
Our Superstring Universe: Strings, Branes, Extra Dimensions and Superstring-M Theory by L. E. Lewis Jr.
The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy by Mark McCutcheon
The Principia by Isaac Newton
The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Where Is Science Going? by Max Planck
Treatise on Thermodynamics by Max Planck
Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare
Science and Method by Henri Poincare

Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Genome by Matt Ridley
Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe by Simon Singh

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell by A. Zee
A First Course in String Theory by Barton Zwiebach


Some Books I've Read: BRAIN, COGNITION, CONSCIOUSNESS, & LANGUAGE

Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library) by John Allman
Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness by Bernard J. Baars
Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences by Susan Blackmore
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings by David J. Chalmers
On Language: Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky
On Nature and Language by Noam Chomsky
Descartes' Error : Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio R. Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence Deacon
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C. Dennett
Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness (Science Masters Series) by Daniel C. Dennett
The Intentional Stance by Daniel C. Dennett
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett
Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition by Merlin Donald
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman
Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman
A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M. Edelman
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities by Gilles Fauconnier
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph Ledoux
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph Ledoux
The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary Marcus
Love and Will by Rollo May
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science by Steven Mithen
Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think by Robert Ornstein
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness : From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers by V. S. Ramachandran
Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World by John R. Searle
The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle
The Rediscovery of the Mind (Representation and Mind) by John R. Searle
Intentionality : An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind by John R. Searle
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
Cognitive Grammar (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) by John R. Taylor
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by Michael Tomasello
The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner
White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obesession, & Psychology of Mental Control by Daniel M. Wegner


Some Books I've Read: GUILTY PLEASURES

Gospel : A Novel by Wilton Barnhardt
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Bradbury Stories : 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
Trout Fishing in America/The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster/In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
A Confederate General from Big Sur/Dreaming of Babylon/ Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
Revenge of the Lawn/The Abortion/So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Valis by Philip K. Dick
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
Booked to Die by John Dunning
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
The Sign of the Book by John Dunning
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
White Jazz by James Ellroy
L.A. Noir by James Ellroy
Clandestine by James Ellroy
Brown's Requiem by James Ellroy
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina
The List of 7 by Mark Frost
The Color of Light by William Goldman
Book of Earth & Sky 1 by Richard Grossinger
Book of Earth & Sky 2 by Richard Grossinger
Spaces Wild & Tame by Richard Grossinger
Book of the Cranberry Islands by Richard Grossinger
Book of Being Born Again into the World by Richard Grossinger
The Slag of Creation by Richard Grossinger
The Long Body of the Dream by Richard Grossinger
Codex by Lev Grossman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A Season for the Dead by David Hewson
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Nevermore by William Hjortsberg
The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
Death and the Good Life by Richard Hugo
Ex Libris by Ross King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Blind Date by Jerzy Kosinski
The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Cockpit by Jerzy Kosinski
Passion Play by Jerzy Kosinski
Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski
High Priest by Timothy Leary
The Politics of Ecstasy by Timothy Leary
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, et al
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
H. P. Lovecraft : Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Eight by Katherine Neville
Logan's Run by William F. Nolan
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Prague by Arthur Phillips
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

Nevermore by Harold Schechter
The Mask of Red Death by Harold Schechter
The Hum Bug by Harold Schechter
The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert
Son of Man by Robert Silverberg

The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg
The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Koko by Peter Straub
Mystery by Peter Straub
Throat by Peter Straub
Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) by Neal Stephenson
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
Soft! by Rupert Thomson
The Earth Will Shake (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles 1) by Robert Anton Wilson
The Widow's Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles 2) by Robert Anton Wilson
Nature's God (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles 3) by Robert Anton Wilson
Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth by Robert Anton Wilson
When Worlds Collide/After Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer
Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann
The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs by William T. Vollmann
Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann
You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann
Rising Up and Rising Down (7 Volume Set) by William T. Vollmann

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