Religion
- Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (paperback, 1994, Ballantine)
- Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth (2005, Canongate Books)
- Karen Armstrong, Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World (1988; 1991; second edition, paperback, 2001, Anchor Books)
- Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism (paperback, 2001, Ballantine)
- Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (2006; paperback, 2007, Random House)
- Chris Hedges, I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008, Free Press)
- Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (2008, Random House)
- Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (paperback, 2005, Vintage Books)
- Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (2006, WW Norton)
- Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007, Free Press)
- Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America (2005, Free Press)
- Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003, Doubleday)
- Garry Wills, Head and Heart: American Christianities (2006, Penguin Press)
- Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant (paperback, 2007, Penguin Books)
- Reza Aslan, No Got but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005, Random House)
- Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (paperback, 1992, Warner Books)
- Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Politican Islam (2000, Belknap Press)
- Gilles Kepel, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (2004, Belknap Press)
- Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (paperback, 2002, Harper Perennial)
- Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (2004, Pantheon Books)
- VS Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (2001, Peter Smith)
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