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. Please also refer to the list of Scandinavian literature. The list is ordered alphabetically on the first author’s surname.
- Muhammad Asad. The Principles of State and Government in Islam.
- Fredrik Barth. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries.
- Paul Berman. Terror and liberalism.
- Susan Blackmore. The meme machine.
- Amy Chua, 2002. World on Fire - how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability.
- Francis S. Collins, 2006. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
- Richard Dawkins, 1976. The Selfish Gene.
- Richard Dawkins, 1982. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene.
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Richard Dawkins, 1986. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design.
- Richard Dawkins, 2006.
The god delusion.
- Daniel C. Dennett. Darwin's dangerous idea - evolution and the meanings of life.
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Ethnicity and Nationalism: anthropological perspectives.
- Oriana Fallaci. The rage and the pride.
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1981. The mismeasure of man.
- Sam Harris. The End of Faith.
- Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. See our brief review.
- Christopher Hitchens, 2007. God Is Not Great.
- Samuel P. Huntington. The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order.
- Bernard Lewis. The crisis of Islam - holy war and unholy terror.
- Bernard Lewis. What went wrong? - western impact and middle eastern response.
- Richard Lewontin.
Biology as ideology - the doctrine of DNA.
- Richard Lewontin. The Triple Helix.
- Kjell Arild Pollestad. 2007. Peter's Answer. Christianity for Educated Heathens and Indifferent Christians.
- Tariq Ramadan. 2007. In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad.
- Carl Sagan. Demon-Haunted world - science as a candle in the dark.
- Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont. Intellectual impostures : postmodern philosophers' abuse of science. Also highly recommended: review by Richard Dawkins.
- David N. Stamos, 2008. Evolution and the big questions.
- Hege Storhaug, Human Rights Service. Human Visas - a report from the front lines of Europe's integration crisis.
- Mark Steyn. America alone - the end of the world as we know it.
- Carol M. Swain, 2003. Contemporary voices of white nationalism in America.
- Jared Taylor. Paved with good intentions – the failure of race relations in contemporary America.
- Jared Taylor (ed.) The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America.
- Ibn Warraq. Why I am not a Muslim.
- Fareed Zakaria, 2003. The future of freedom : illiberal democracy at home and abroad.
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