Readings
I have a long list of books that I would like to read some time before I die. Believing it best to take it one at a time, I’ve scheduled my reading schedule. My blog posts about the scheduled reading will follow the day or two after each section is completed (whether I’m on schedule or not).
Current Reading
I am currently reading The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong.
Future Readings
Here is my grab bag of reading materials in no particular order. If you have any suggestions for this reading list, please speak up.
- A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil’s Biblical Roots by T. J. Wray, Gregory Mobley
- A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
- Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
- How We Know What Isn’t So by Thomas Gilovich
- A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography by Levi S Peterson
- My Beautiful Loss of Faith Story: A Memoir by Julia Sweeney
- Letting Go of God by Julia Sweeney
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran, et al.
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the
Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences by Rick Strassman MD - Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
by Thomas G. Alexander - Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
- David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A Prince, Wm Robert Wright
- Various essays by Bob McCue
- In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
- Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
- Post-Atheism: A Mechanist’s Journey from Christian Materialism to Material Spirituality by Matt Berry
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless by John D. Barrow
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
- History & Faith: Reflections of a Mormon historian by Richard D. Poll
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Bill Moyers interview of Salman Rushdie
- Sarah The Priestess: The First Matriarch Of Genesis by Savina Teubal
- Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Three Gates to Meditation Practice: A Personal Journey into Sufism, Buddhism, and Judaism by David A. Cooper
- Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley
- Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
- Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, a Man to Match His Mountains by Eknath Easwaran
- God’s Debris by Scott Adams
- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion by Dale McGowan
- What You Can’t Say by Paul Graham
- The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
- The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Nonoverlapping Magisteria by Stephen J. Gould
- In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran
- Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer—a counterpoint to In Gods We Trust in the adaptive/by-product debate.
- Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc Hauser
- God’s Funeral: A Biography of Faith and Doubt in Western Civilization by A.N. Wilson
- Statements of the LDS First Presidency: A Topical Compendium by Gary James Bergera
- God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J Stenger
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The Bible and Its Influence, Student Text by Cullen Schippe, Chuck Stetson
- Historical Development of New Masturbation Attitudes in Mormon Culture: Silence, Secular Conformity, Counterrevolution, and Emerging Reform by Mark Kim Malan and Vern Bullough
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
