I do not agree with the contents of all of the below books, but believe there is a lot to learn from each and every one of them. See also my list of Scandinavian literature. The list is ordered alphabetically on the first author’s surname.

• Muhammad Abdel-Haleem, 1999. Understanding the Qur'an: themes and style.
• Mustafa Akyol, 2021. Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance.
• Larry Arnhart, 2005. Darwinian Conservatism.
• Muhammad Asad, 1961. The Principles of State and Government in Islam.
• Reza Aslan, 2006. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
• Augustine, 398. Confessions.
• Fredrik Barth, 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries.
• Paul Berman, 2003. Terror and liberalism.
• Pascal Bruckner, 2010. The tyranny of guilt - an essay on Western masochism.
• Bill Bryson, 2003. A Short History of Nearly Everything - a journey through space and time.
• Pat Buchanan, 2006. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.
• Christopher Caldwell, 2009. Reflections on the revolution In Europe - Can Europe be the same with different people in it?
• Amy Chua, 2002. World on Fire - how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability.
• Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending, 2009. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution.
• Francis S. Collins, 2006. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
• Alain F. Corcos, 1997. The myth of human races.
• Richard Dawkins, 1976. The Selfish Gene.
• Richard Dawkins, 1982. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene.
• Richard Dawkins, 1986. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design.
• Richard Dawkins, 2004. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
• Richard Dawkins, 2009. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.
• Daniel C. Dennett, 1995. Darwin's dangerous idea - evolution and the meanings of life.
• John Derbyshire, 2009. We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism.
• Jared Diamond, 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
• Bart D. Ehrman, 2014. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee.
• Jon Entine, 2000. Taboo - Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It.
• Khaled Abou el Fadl, 2007. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists.
• Oriana Fallaci, 2001. The rage and the pride.
• James R. Flynn, 2007. What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect.
• Charles Freeman, 2009. AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State.
• Mattias Gardell, 2003. Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism.
• Paul Gottfried, 2012. War and Democracy.
• Stephen Jay Gould, 1980. The Panda's Thumb.
• Stephen Jay Gould, 1981. The mismeasure of man (but see critical reviews in academic journals by Jensen and Rushton, respectively).
• Stephen Jay Gould, 1985. The Flamingo's Smile.
• Stephen Jay Gould, 1994. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.
• Joseph L. Graves Jr., 2001. The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millenium.
• Brad S. Gregory, 2012. The Unintended Reformation - how a religious revolution secularized society.
• Frank Griffel, 2009. Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology.
• Jonathan Haidt, 2012. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.
• Yuval Noah Harari, 2014. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
• Yuval Noah Harari, 2018. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
• Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, 2001. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. See our brief review.
• Michael H. Hart, 2007. Understanding Human History: An analysis including the effects of geography and differential evolution. Also available for free in pdf format.
• Samuel P. Huntington, 1996. The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order.
• Larry Hurtado, 2005. How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?: Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus.
• Larry Hurtado, 2010. God in New Testament Theology.
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 1993/2002. Ethnicity and Nationalism: anthropological perspectives.
• Philip Jenkins, 2010. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years.
• James Kalb, 2008. The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command.
• James Kalb, 2013. Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It.
• Ahmed Paul Keeler, 2019. Rethinking Islam and The West: A New Narrative for The Age of Crises.
• Philip Kitcher, 1982. Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism.
• Joram van Klaveren, 2019. Apostate: From Christianity to Islam in times of secularisation and terror.
• Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
• Michael Levin, 1987. Feminism and freedom.
• Michael Levin, 1997. Why Race Matters - race differences and what they mean.
• Bernard Lewis, 2002. What went wrong? - western impact and middle eastern response.
• Bernard Lewis, 2004. The crisis of Islam - holy war and unholy terror.
• Richard Lewontin, 1991. Biology as ideology - the doctrine of DNA.
• Richard Lewontin, 2000. The Triple Helix.
• Richard Lewontin, 2000. It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions.
• Bryan Magee, 2001. The Story of Philosophy.
• Shoaib Ahmed Malik, 2021. Islam and evolution - al-Ghazali and the modern evolutionary paradigm.
• John Marsh, 2012. The Liberal Delusion.
• Alister McGrath, 2017. The Great Mystery: Science, God and the Human Quest for Meaning.
• Ilana Mercer, 2011. Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa [the rationale for the provocative title is given on pages 8 and 9 in the book].
• Ashley Montagu, 1945. Man's Most Dangerous Myth: the fallacy of race.
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2016. The Gene: An Intimate History.
• Abdal Hakim Murad, 2012. Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions.
• Abdal Hakim Murad, 2020. Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe.
• Mark A. Noll, 1994. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
• Steven Pinker, 1994. The Language Instinct: the new science of language and mind.
• Steven Pinker, 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
• Susan Pinker, 2008. The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls, and the Real Difference Between the Sexes.
• Kjell Arild Pollestad. 2007. Peter's Answer. Christianity for Educated Heathens and Indifferent Christians.
• Tariq Ramadan. 2004. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam.
• Tariq Ramadan. 2007. In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad.
• Robert R. Reilly, 2010. The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis.
• Byron M. Roth. 2010. The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature.
• Michael Ruse, 1983. Darwinism defended: a guide to the evolution controversies.
• J. Philippe Rushton, 1995. Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective.
• Adam Rutherford, 2014. Creation: The Origin of Life.
• Adam Rutherford, 2018. The Book of Humans - a brief history of culture, sex, war and the evolution of us.
• Adam Rutherford, 2020. How to Argue With a Racist - history, science, race and reality.
• Carl Sagan, 1996. Demon-Haunted world - science as a candle in the dark.
• Frank Salter, 2003. On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration.
• Frank Salter, 2014. The War on Human Nature in Australia's Political Culture: Collected Essays.
• Ziauddin Sardar, 2004. Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim.
• Vincent Sarich & Frank Miele, 2004. Race: The Reality of Human Differences.
• David Schenk, 2011. The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ.
• Roger Scruton, 2015. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.
• Neven Sesardic, 2005. Making Sense of Heritability.
• Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, 1998. Intellectual impostures : postmodern philosophers' abuse of science. Also highly recommended: review by Richard Dawkins.
• Christina Hoff Sommers, 1994. Who stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women.
• Thomas Sowell, 1995. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
• Thomas Sowell, 2004. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study.
• Kenton L. Sparks, 2012. Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture.
• David N. Stamos, 2008. Evolution and the big questions.
• Mark Steyn, 2006. America alone - the end of the world as we know it.
• Carol M. Swain, 2003. Contemporary voices of white nationalism in America.
• Jared Taylor, 1993. Paved with good intentions – the failure of race relations in contemporary America.
• Jared Taylor (ed.), 1998. The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America.
• Nicholas Wade, 2006. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors.
• Nicholas Wade, 2014. A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History.
• Edward O. Wilson, 1975. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
• Edward O. Wilson, 1978. On Human Nature.
• Christos Yannaras, 1991. Elements of Faith: An Introduction to Orthodox Theology.
• Fareed Zakaria, 2003. The future of freedom: illiberal democracy at home and abroad.
• Markus Zehnder, 2021. The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment.