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| Author / Editor (Pub. date) | Title | Subtitle or Comments | |
| Academy of Humanism (1988) | Neo-Fundamentalism | The Humanist Response | |
| Ahmed, Akbar (1988) | Discovering Islam | making sense of Muslim history and society | |
| Alper, Matthew (2001) | The "God" Part of the Brain | a scientific interpretation of human spirituality and God | |
| Armstrong, Karen (1992) | Muhammad | A biography of the prophet | |
| Auer, J.A.C.F & Hartt, Julian (1951) | Humanism Versus Theism | A debate? | |
| Azimov, Isaac (1979) | A Choice of Catastrophes | The disasters that threaten our world | |
| Baumeister, Roy (1991) | Meanings of Life | - | |
| Beder, Sharon (2002) | Global Spin | the corporate assault on environmentalism | |
| Blackburn, Simon (1999) | Think | a compelling introduction to philosophy | |
| Blackham, H.J. (1968) | Humanism | humanism as an attitude of mind | |
| Bloom, Harold (1992) | The American Religion | the emergence of the post-Christian nation | |
| Boguslaw, Robert (1965) | The New Utopians | a study of system design and social change | |
| Boston, Robert (1996) | The Most Dangerous Man in America | Pat Robertson and the rise of the Christian coalition | |
| Caporale, Lynn Helena (2003) | Darwin in the Genome | Molecular strategies in biological evolution | |
| Carroll, Sean B (2005) | Endless Forms Most Beautiful | New Science of Evo Devo (evolutionary developments biology) | |
| Charlesworth, James (1992) | Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Cohen, Arthur (1962) | The Natural and The Supernatural Jew | - | |
| Cortesi, David (2001) | Secular Wholeness | a skeptic's paths to a richer life | |
| Daloz, Laurent et al (1996) | Common Fire | Leading Lives Of Commitment In a Complex World | |
| Daly, Herman & Cobb, John B Jr (1989) | For The Common Good | Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future | |
| Davies, Paul (1983) | God and The New Physics | The impact of science on what were formerly religious issues | |
| Dawkins, Richard (1976) | The Selfish Gene | A "must" read for all humanists | |
| De Bono, Edward (1973) | Lateral Thinking | creativity step by step | |
| De Botton, Alain (1997) | How Proust Can Change Your Life | A self-help manual for the intelligent person | |
| deChardin, Pierre Teillhard (1971) | Christianity and Evolution | - | |
| Dennett, Daniel (1998) | Brain Children | essays on designing mind | |
| Denton, Michael (1998) | Nature's Destiny | How the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe | |
| Dewey, John (1934) | A Common Faith | Call for emancipation of religion from dogma and supernaturalism | |
| Dewey, John (1954) | Reconstruction In Philosophy | - | |
| Diamond, Jared (2005) | Collapse | How societies choose to fail or succeed | |
| Diamond, Malcolm & Litzenburg, Thomas (1975) | The Logic of God: Theology and Verification | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Diamond, Sara (1989) | Spiritual Warfare | The politics of the Christian Right | |
| Dupont-Sommer, A (1960) | The Essene Writings From Quran | - | |
| Dyer, Wayne (1989) | You'll See it When You Believe it | the way to your personal transformation | |
| Eller, David (2004) | Natural Atheism | foundations, concepts, applications | |
| Faber, M.D. (2004) | The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief | Is God out there or just inside our heads? | |
| Fingarette, Herbert (1967) | On Responsibility | - | |
| Flew, Antony (1976) | The Presumption of Atheism and other Essays | - | |
| Flew, Antony (1993) | Atheistic Humanism | - | |
| Ford, Charles (1996) | Lies, Lies, Lies | the psychology of deceit | |
| Freke, Timothy (2000) | Spiritual Traditions | Essential teachings to transform your life | |
| Goleman, Daniel (1977) | The Varieties of the Meditative Experience | - | |
| Goodwin, Brian (1994) | How The Leopard Changed Its Spots | the evolution of complexity | |
| Goodwin, Brian & Sole, Ricard (2000) | Signs of Life | how complexity pervades biology | |
| Gould, Stephen J. (1989) | What a Wonderful Life | The Burgess Shale and the nature of history | |
| Greider, William (2003) | The Soul of Capitalism | opening paths to a moral economy | |
| Hawke, David Freeman (1974) | Paine | biographical | |
| Hecht, Jennifer (2003) | Doubt | The great doubter throughout history | |
| Ingersoll, Robert (1900) | The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Memorial Edition | 10 volumes of the 12 volume set: Lectures, Discussions, Political, Legal, Miscellany, Tributes | |
| Jacoby, Susan (2004) | Freethinkers | a history of American secularism | |
| Jenkins, Philip (2000) | Mystics and Messiahs | Cults and new religions in American History | |
| Johnson, George (1995) | Fire in The Mind | Science, Faith, and the search for order | |
| Kelly, Frederick Joseph (1974) | Man Before God | Thomas Merton on Social Responsibility | |
| King, William Peter (1931) | Humanism | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Klinghoffer, David (2003) | The Discovery of God | Abraham and the birth of monotheism | |
| Kuehn, Robert E. (1974) | Aldous Huxley | a collection of critical essays | |
| Kurtz, Paul (2003) | Science and Religion: Are They Compatible | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Kurtz, Paul (1973) | The Humanist Alternative | Some definitions of humanism | |
| Lakein, Alan (1973) | How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life | Best seller. Emphasizes priority and meaning. | |
| Lamont, Corliss (1988) | The Philosophy of Humanism | 6th edition | |
| Lamont, Corliss (1957) | The Philosophy of Humanism | - | |
| Lesser, Elizabeth (1999) | The New American Spirituality | a seekers guide | |
| Lewis, Bernard (2002) | What Went Wrong? | The clash between Islam and modernity in the middle east | |
| Lorenz, Konrad (1983) | The Waning Of Humaneness | - | |
| Mack, Burton (1995) | Who Wrote the New Testament? | The making of the Christian myth | |
| Mack, Burton (2001) | The Christian Myth | origins, logic, and legacy | |
| Manchester, William (1967) | H.L. Mencken: Disturber of the Peace | - | |
| Margulis, Lynn & Sagan, Dorion (2002) | Acquiring Genomes | A theory of the origins of species | |
| Marietta, Don E. Jr. (1995) | For People and the Planet | Holism and Humanism in environmental ethics | |
| Maslow, Abraham (1964) | Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences | - | |
| McBeth, Leon (1977) | Strange New Religions | - | |
| McCutcheon, Russell (1999) | The Insider / Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion | collection of writings by various authors | |
| McLennan, Rev Scotty (1999) | Finding Your Religion | When the faith you grew up with has lost its meaning | |
| Menninger, Karl (1973) | Whatever Became of Sin? | - | |
| Miles, Jack (1995) | God | A biography | |
| Miller, Emmett (1987) | Software for the Mind | how to program your own mind for optimum health and performance | |
| Mithen, Steven (1996) | The Prehistory of the Mind | The cognitive origins or art and science | |
| Mizuno, Kogen (1980) | The Beginnings of Buddhism | Intro to Buddhism, including history, principles and practices | |
| Moore, David (2001) | The Dependent Gene | The fallacy of nature vs nurture | |
| Moyers, Bill (1989) | A World of Ideas | Conversations about life today and the issues shaping our future | |
| Nader, Ralph (2002) | Crashing the Party | Taking on the corporate government in an age of surrender | |
| Neiman, Susan (2002) | Evil In Modern Thought | An alternative history of philosophy | |
| Newman, William (1974) | The Social Meanings of Religion | - | |
| Ornstein, Robert (1991) | Evolution of Consciousness | The origins of the way we think | |
| Parsons, Keith (2003) | The Science Wars | debating scientific knowledge and technology | |
| Patton, Kenneth (1964) | A Religion for One World | Art and symbols for universal religion | |
| Pennock, Robert (1999) | Tower of Babel | The evidence against the new creationism | |
| Plotkin, H.C. (1988) | The Role of Behavior in Evolution | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Press, Bill (2001) | Spin This! | all the ways we don't tell the truth | |
| Quinn, Daniel (1992) | Ishmael | an adventure of the mind and spirit (fiction, about a talking gorilla) | |
| Rheingold, Howard (1985) | Tools for Though | The history of mind expanding technology | |
| Ridley, Matt (2003) | The Agile Gene | how nature turns on nurture | |
| Ridley, Matt (1999) | Genome | The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters | |
| Rolston, Holmes III (1995) | Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life | - | |
| Rosaldo, Renato (1989) | Culture and Truth | The remaking of social analysis | |
| Rose, Steven (2005) | The Future of the Brain | The promise and perils of tomorrows neuroscience | |
| Rothman, Tony & Sudharshan, George (1996) | Doubt and Certainty | a stimulating mix of science and philosophy (written by physicist) | |
| Ruether, Rosemary Radford (1992) | Gaia and God | a eco-feminist theology of earth healing | |
| Ruse, Michael (2005) | The Evolution-Creation Struggle | - | |
| Russell, Jeffrey (1977) | The Devil | Perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity | |
| Sagan, Carl (1980) | Cosmos | - | |
| Sagan, Carl (1979) | Brocas Brain | Reflections on the romance of science | |
| Said, Edward & Hitchens, Christopher (1986) | Blaming the Victims | Spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question | |
| Sangiuliano, Iris (1978) | In Her Time | The common life journeys of women and the crises that trigger their growth | |
| Sapp, Jan (1994) | Evolution By Association | A History of Symbiosis | |
| Schillebeeckx, Edward (1979) | Jesus: An Experiment in Christology | Examination of the biblical evidence for the meaning of Jesus | |
| Schuster, M. Lincoln (1940) | A Treasury of the World's Great Letters | from ancient days to our own time | |
| Seligmann, Kurt (1948) | Magic, Supernaturalism, and Religion | - | |
| Shermer, Michael (1997) | Why People Believe Weird Things | Pseudo-science, superstition, and other confusions of our time | |
| Shlain, Leonard (2003) | Sex, Time, and Power | How women's sexuality shaped human evolution | |
| Sills, Judith (1993) | Exceses Baggage | Getting out of your own way | |
| Singer, Irving (1992) | Meaning In Life | The Creation of Value | |
| SkyLight Path Press (2003) | Spiritual Perspective on America's Role as Superpower | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Sober, Elliott & Wilson, David (1998) | Unto Others | the evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior | |
| Solomon, Robert & Higgins, Kathleen (1991) | The Philosophy of Erotic Love | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Stent, Gunther (1980) | Morality as a Biological Phenomenon | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Storer, Morris (1980) | Humanist Ethics | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Tester, Keith (1992) | Civil Society | meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility, and social order | |
| Thrower, James (1999) | Religions: The Classical Theories | - | |
| Tiger, Lionel (1979) | Optimism | The Biology of Hope | |
| Twain, Mark (1969) | The Mysterious Stranger | - | |
| Vertosick, Frank T. Jr. (2002) | The Genius Within | Discovering the intelligence of every living thing | |
| Wach, Joachim (1958) | The Comparative Study of Religions | - | |
| Weinstein, Fred & Platt, Gerald (1969) | The Wish to Be Free | Society, psyche, and value change | |
| Weir, Robert (1986) | Ethical Issues in Death and Dying | collection of writings by various authors | |
| Wetmore, Donald (2001) | K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple ..) | Guide to organizing your life | |
| White, L Michael (2004) | From Jesus To Christianity | How four generations of visionaries and storytellers created the new testament and Christian faith | |
| White, Morton (1972) | Science and Sentiment in America | Historical responses to the challenge of science and its affect on civilization | |
| Witham, Larry (2002) | Where Darwin Meets the Bible | Creationists and evolutionists in America | |
| Woodcock, George (1971) | Mohandas Gandhi | - | |