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Recent Favorite Books
Favorite Books of 2000: Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Jose Saramago Skeptics and True Believers - Chet Raymo History as Mystery - Michael Parenti Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World - David E Stannard Dangerous Patriots: Canada's Unknown Prisoners of War - William and Kathleen Repka (shocking story of Canadian leftists, activists, labor and union leaders who were victims of the War Measures Act during World War II, locked up without any charges or access to legal counsel - some for as long as two years) Favorite Books of 2001: A Language Older Than Words - Derrick Jensen The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War - Mark Zuehlke The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver Truth by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present - Ward Churchill (The hidden history of the genocide of indigenous peoples by the "good Christian white man from the time of Columbus) Interview with Ward Churchill Favorite Books of 2002: 'Tis - Frank McCourt White Oleander - Janet Fitch Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson The Future of Moral Values - A. C. Grayling The Meaning of Things - A.C. Grayling A People's History of The United States - Howard Zinn (Updated Version). Favorite books of 2003: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy - Howard Zinn You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Autobiography) - Howard Zinn Another Century of War - Gabriel Kolko The Reason of Things - A.C. Grayling The Christ Conspiracy - Acharya S Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky Anarchism - Daniel Guerin Favorite books of 2004: Meditations for the Humanist - A.C. Grayling Nickle and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich What is Good? - A Search for the best way to live by A C Grayling Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons and The Erosion of Common Sense - Francis Wheen Under the Banner of Heaven - John Krakauer ( A well researched scathing indictment of Mormon fundamentalism) The Philosophy Gym - Stephen Law Life, Sex and Ideas - A C Grayling (An Anthology (2004) of short essays by one of the best public writers of philosophy since Russell) The Corporation (The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power) - Joel Bakan (Based on Bakan's Documentary) Favorite books of 2005: On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - Susan Jacoby How the Scots Invented the Modern World - Arthur Herman King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild The Heart of Things - A C Grayling Without Guilt and Justice - Walter Kaufmann On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements - George Woodcock A Short History of Progress - Ronald Wright (2004 Massey Lecture) Favorite books of 2006: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris [Sam Harris has a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford who is presently studying for his doctorate in Neuroscience. He has written a long overdue riveting indictment of the absurdities and malignancies of faith and faith based religions, launching a "no holds barred" frontal attack on both Christianity and Islam. You can read the Epilogue to the recent paperback edition here.] Citizens of Empire, The Struggle to claim our Humanity - Robert Jensen Jesusland [Formerly The United States of America} by The Staff of www.landoverbaptist.org (Outrageous satire of evangelism in the USA---this will have you laughing at every page) Teacher Man - Frank McCourt The Pig That Wants to be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher - Julian Baggini Antonio Gramsci - Steve Jones Why Truth Matters - Ophelia Benson & Jeremy Strangroom Failed States - Noam Chomsky Favorite books of 2007: The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins The Culture of Make Believe - Derrick Jensen The Spanish Civil War - Helen Graham Anarchism - Colin Ward Autobiography - David Suzuki God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens Deer Hunting With Jesus - Joe Bageant The Battle for Spain (The Spanish Civil War) - Antony Beevor Orwell's Message - George Woodcock American Fascists : The Christian Right and the War on America - Chris Hedges (a must read) Favorite books of 2008: Contrary Notions - Michael Parenti The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge - Paul Preston Irreligion - John Allen Paulos The Atheist Manifesto - Michel Onfray (translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt) Neither Wolf nor Dog - Kent Nerburn The Form of Things: Essays on Life and Liberty in the 21st Century - A C Grayling The Happiness Myth - Jennifer Michael Hecht The Reason Driven Life - Robert M Price (skewering of the preposterous Purpose Driven Life by fundamentalist Baptist Pastor Rick Warren. By "purpose", Warren means "accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior"). Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - Susan Jacoby Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War - Michael Petrou (New (2008) scholarly book on Canadian participation in the "great cause" of the Spanish Civil War - fascinating read!) Favorite books of 2009: Undercover Philosopher - Michael Philips Philosophers Without Gods - Louise M. Antony, ed. Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life - John Lee Anderson Don't Get Fooled Again: A Skeptics Handbook - Richard Wilson Real Band of Brothers: British Survivors of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War - Max Arthur Bullshit and Philosophy - Gary L Hardcastle & George A Reisch, eds. The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America - James Wilson Journey to the End of the Night - Louis Ferdinand Celine Favorite books of 2010: A Fair Country - John Ralston Saul Endgame - Derrick Jensen Native American History - Judith Nies Columbus and other Cannibals - Jack C Forbes The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers - Jack Bowen Survival at Auschwitz - Primo Levi First Tragedy, Then Farce - Slavoj Zizek God's Problem - Bart Ehrman
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