Further reading
Classic statements of the ‘New Atheism’
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion. London: Bantam, 2006.
Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. New York: Viking Penguin, 2006.
Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006.
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. New York: Twelve, 2007.
Other atheist works of interest, not necessarily advocating the ‘New Atheist’ approach
Russell Blackford (ed.), 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. (A very uneven collection.)
Paul W. Kurtz, Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010.
John W. Loftus, The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010.
David Mills, Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2006.
Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. New York: Arcade, 2007.
Darrel W. Ray, The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture. Bonner Springs, KS: IPC Press, 2009.
Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008.
Victor J. Stenger, The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009.
Criticisms of and responses to the New Atheism, reflecting both Christian and secular perspectives
Karen Armstrong, The Case for God. New York: Knopf, 2009.
Tina Beattie, The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2007.
David Berlinski, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
John Cornwell, Darwin’s Angel: A Seraphic Response to the God Delusion. London: Profile Books, 2007.
William Lane Craig and Chad V. Meister (eds), God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2009.
Thomas Crean, God Is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007.
Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2007.
Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
David Fergusson, Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Scott Hahn, Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case against God. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Road, 2008.
David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
John F. Haught, God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.
Timothy J. Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. New York: Dutton, 2008.
John Lennox, God’s Undertaker: Has Science buried God? Oxford: Lion, 2007.
Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. London: SPCK, 2007.
Alister E. McGrath, Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.
Ian S. Markham, Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris are Fundamentally Wrong. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
R. Albert Mohler, Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2008.
David G. Myers, A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists: Musings on Why God is Good and Faith isn’t Evil. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Michael Novak, No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers. New York: Doubleday, 2008.
David Robertson, The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths. Tain, Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 2007.
Robert B. Stewart, The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.
Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2008.
Tom Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2006.
Ravi K. Zacharias, The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008.