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10 best books like Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Mark Twain): The Thurber Carnival, Mark Twain, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture, Billy Budd and Other Tales, Main Street / Babbitt, Poor Folk and Other Stories, The Portable Voltaire, The Landmark History of the American People, 2 Volumes, Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob", The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

The Thurber Carnival
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0060932872
"An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer

James Thurber’s unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades...
Mark Twain
AuthorRon Powers
ISBN0743249011
Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's,...
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture
AuthorPaul Krassner
ISBN0671898434
The author is a standup comic, a long-time writer and editor of a provocative periodical called "The Realist," and an associate of Lenny Bruce, Abby Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Charles Manson, Squeaky Fromme, Larry Flynt, and other famous fringe folk from the sixties and beyond....
Billy Budd and Other Tales
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0451526872

Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.

[That was sarcasm.]

His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
Main Street / Babbitt
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0940450615
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume combine brilliant satire...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0140445056
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
The Portable Voltaire
AuthorVoltaire
Satirist, novelist, poet, dramatist, historian, moralist, critic, courtier, and correspondent, champion of reason and fanatical adversary of fanaticism, a darling of kings with the unfortunate habit of turning them into enemies, François Arouet de Voltaire is one of the few writers to have imposed...
The Landmark History of the American People, 2 Volumes
AuthorDaniel J. Boorstin
ISBN0394891201
This was used as a spine book in Sonlight's History program. A bit dense in information, and a slow read, but WELL worth the effort. It brought to life many of the otherwise dry events of our nation's history such as processes of the Add-A-State program, Associated Press, how and why we began using Standard...
Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob"
AuthorIvan Stang
ISBN0671671901
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The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
AuthorIdries Shah
Today we find him in a high-level physics report, illustrating phenomena that can't be described in ordinary technical terms. He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can. In three definitive volumes (The Exploits of the Incomparable...
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN1559702109
Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes....
The Atheist's Introduction to the New Testament: How the Bible Undermines the Basic Teachings of Christianity
AuthorMike Davis
ISBN1432726919


A DEVASTATING CRITIQUE OF BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY!

The Atheist's Introduction to the New Testament is your one-volume guide to the contradictions and inconsistencies found in Christianity's holy scriptures. It's the only resource you'll need to successfully debate Christian...
The Best of Robert Ingersoll
AuthorRobert G. Ingersoll
ISBN0879752092
Robert Ingersoll was America's finest orator and foremost leader of freethinkers. Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V. Debs, and Elizabeth Cady used to gather to hear the speeches of "the great agnostic."

Roger E. Greeley has selected the best from speeches and essays of this iconoclastic...
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192838768
David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is even consistent with such knowledge. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief,...
Women Without Superstition: No Gods--No Masters: The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
AuthorAnnie L. Gaylor
ISBN1877733091
Women Without Superstition is a collection of excerpts from the writings of female free-thinkers, almost exclusively American and white, which I think is the collection's greatest weakness, spanning the years from the founding of the Republic to the late '90s, when the volume was published. A revised...
2000 Years of Disbelief
AuthorJames A. Haught
ISBN1573920673
Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. This insightful, witty collection sets the record straight by profiling dozens of famous people who were skeptical of conventional religious beliefs. Included, among others, are Isaac Asimov, W.E.B. DuBois,...
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
AuthorDan Barker
I was really interested in reading this book and a bit disappointed when I did. I was expecting an autobiography, and I did get that for the first quarter of the book. Most of it is a series of essays that have been republished that explain his thoughts on rejecting Christianity. And they're categorized...
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
AuthorDave Barry
ISBN0740706004
When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. "I have never written a column that got a bigger...
On God and Religion (Great Books in Philosophy)
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0879753234
Fantastic book from a fantastic free thinker! I also thought it was an easy read for a philosophy text. One of my favorite passages from the book (it is long but well worth it):

"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown, and partly , as I have...
In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years
AuthorKarl Popper
ISBN0415135486
'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course...
Stalky & Co.
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN1406503258
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the book is the question 'What happened to the fifteen-year boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' These...
Don Camillo's Dilemma
AuthorGiovannino Guareschi
ISBN0575001372
دن‌کامیلو باز هم در دوره‌ای سخت برایم هوای آزاد شد. حالم را بهتر کرد در این روزها.
مانند قبلی‌ها کتاب داستان-داستان است از ماجراهایی که بین بخش‌دار کمونیست...
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
AuthorMarlene Winell
ISBN1879237512
Here goes: On June 19, 2011, I stopped believing in God. I had been a Christian for seventeen years, and one evening I just started contemplating the placebo effect ("If my faith were real, but God were not, could I say with certainty that my life would be any different, or would I just have different interpretations...
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