Good Books
Books on atheist spirituality
André Comte-Sponville ‘The Book of Atheist Spirituality’ Bantam 2008
Geoff Crocker ‘An Enlightened Philosophy – Can an Atheist Believe Anything?’ O Books 2011
Richard Holloway ‘Godless Morality’ Canongate 2000
Brian Mountford ‘Christian Atheist : Belonging without Believing’ O Books 2011
Alain de Botton ‘Religion for Atheists’ Penguin 2013
A C Grayling ‘The Good Book : A Secular Bible’ Bloomsbury 2011
Books on atheism
Julian Baggini ‘Atheism A Very Short Introduction’ Oxford 2003
John Humphrys ‘In God We Doubt’ Hodder and Stoughton 2007
Books on virtue
André Comte-Sponville ‘A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues’ Heinemann 2002
Susan Neiman ‘Moral Clarity’ Bodley Head 2009
Isaiah Berlin ‘The Crooked Timber of Humanity’ Vintage 2003
Matt Ridley ‘The Origins of Virtue’ Penguin 1997
John Rawls ‘A Theory of Justice’ Harvard University Press 1999
Christopher Ricks ‘T S Eliot and Prejudice’ Faber and Faber 1994
Amartya Sen ‘The Idea of Justice’ Penguin 2009
Kathleen Taylor ‘Cruelty – Human Evil and the Human Brain’ Oxford 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne ‘Scarlet Letter’ Oxford 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne ‘The Birthmark’ Oxford 2009
Richard Holloway ‘On Forgiveness’ Canongate 2002
Stefan Zweig ‘Beware of Pity’ Pushkin Press 2012
Jérôme Ferrari ‘Where I Left My Soul’ MacLehose Press 2012
José Saramago ‘Raised from the Ground’ Harvill Secker 2012
Hans Fallada ‘Alone in Berlin’ Penguin 2010
Relevant books on philosophy
André Comte-Sponville ‘The Little Book of Philosophy’ Heinemann 2004
Roy Porter ‘Flesh in the Age of Reason’ Penguin 2004
Simon Blackburn ‘Think’ Oxford 2001
Simon Blackburn ‘Being Good’ Oxford 2002
Terry Eagleton ‘Reason, Faith, and Revolution’ Yale 2009
Julian Baggini ‘What’s it all about? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life’ Granta 2005
Thaddeus Metz ‘Meaning in Life’ OUP 2013
Susan Wolf ‘Meaning in Life and Why it Matters’ Princeton 2012
Joshua Seachris ‘Exploring the Meaning of Life : An Anthology and Guide’ Wiley 2012
Erik Wielenberg ‘Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe’ Cambridge 2005
John Cottingham ‘On the Meaning of Life’ Routeledge 2002
Terry Eagleton ‘The Meaning of Life’ OUP 2007
Several of these books are reviewed in Geoff’s book reviews.