The selection of books that have influenced us in our humanist views proved to be surprisingly wide ranging. I list a selection of them in alphabetical sequence of author's names and give links to other sites where more can be read about them.
Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/hhgg.html
Al-Khalili, Jim: Paradox
http://www.jimal-khalili.com/science-communication-books
Asimov, Isaac: Foundation Trilogy + Robot series
http://www.asimovonline.com/asimov_home_page.html
Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations
http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
Brigstock, Marcus: God Collar
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/god-collar-by-marcus-brigstocke-2299554.html
Carr, J.L.: A Month in the Country
http://www.zyworld.com/albionmagazineonline/books1.htm
Conan Doyle, Arthur: The Sherlock Holmes Stories
http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/SherlockTimeline.html
Coyne, Jerry: Why Evolution is True
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/
Dawkins, Richard: The Selfish Gene + The God Delusion + many others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
De Botton, Alain: Religion for Atheists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_de_Botton
Dennett, Daniel: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm
Feynman, Richard: Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You're_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!
Fortey, Richard: Trilobite
http://resolutereader.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/richard-fortey-trilobite-eyewitness-to.html
Geldof, Bob: Is That It?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Is-That-It-Bob-Geldof/dp/0330442929
Gleick, James: Chaos
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Chaos.html?id=upcJCIH8M_oC&redir_esc=y
Grayling, A. C.: Ideas that Matter + The God Argument + others
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideas-That-Matter-Personal-Concepts/dp/0753826186
Harris, Sam: The Moral Landscape + The End of Faith + others
http://www.samharris.org/
Hawking, Stephen: A Brief History of Time
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Heinlein, Robert: Stranger in a Strange Land
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/robert-heinlein/
Hitchens, Christopher: God is not Great
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hitchens
Illich, Ivan: The De-schooling of Society + others
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/dec/09/guardianobituaries.highereducation
Jones, R.V.: Most Secret War
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Most_Secret_War.html?id=hkftkibM5fkC&redir_esc=y
Keenan, Brian: An Evil Cradling
http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=339
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poisonwood_Bible
Koestler, Arthur: The Sleepwalkers + Darkness at Noon
http://www.ianhopkinson.org.uk/2012/11/book-review-the-sleepwalkers-a-history-of-mans-changing-vision-of-the-universe-by-arthur-koestler/
Kumar, Manjit: Quantum - Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate ...
http://manjitkumar.blogspot.co.uk/
Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence#Lady_Chatterley_trial
Levi, Primo: If This is a Man
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/05/rereading-if-this-is-man
Marryat, Frederick: The Children of the New Forest
http://archive.org/details/children_new_forest_0709_librivox
Michie, David: The Dalai Lama's Cat
http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=7121
Morgan, Elaine: The Descent of Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTADBkDRQco
Morris, Desmond: The Naked Ape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCm3RVkDBR0
Neville, Katherine: The Eight
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight
Ramachandran, V.S.: The Tell-Tale Brain
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Roberts, Alice: The Incredible Human Journey
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/incredible-human-journey/
Russell, Bertrand: History of Western Philosophy + Why I am Not a Christian + others
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUrussell.htm
Singh, Simon: Trick or Treatment + Fermat's Last Theorem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/simon-singh
Tressell, Robert: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
http://www.1066.net/tressell/
Von Daniken, Erich: Chariots of the Gods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QecSCOX3uM
The King James Bible
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
Some of these titles have evidently influenced us in widening our consciousness towards what alternative views might be possible. We suspect that many Christians don't actually read the Bible, they just know bits they have been preached about.
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