Rationalism


God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Ethics
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Philosophical Essays
Discourse on Method
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Letter to a Christian Nation
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
The Age of Reason
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
They Told Us To Just Believe by Daniel J FriedrichHoly Unbelievable by P.C. DixonGod, the Evolver by Faiz KingThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe End of Faith by Sam Harris
Freethought Reading List
111 books — 73 voters
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithCandide and Philosophical Letters by VoltaireCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
The Enlightenment and its Impact
289 books — 100 voters

The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThey Told Us To Just Believe by Daniel J FriedrichThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
What is Atheism About?
147 books — 97 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Atheist Fiction
146 books — 32 voters

Michael Oakeshott
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and other essays

Douglas Adams
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so t ...more
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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