BOOK LIST

I would like to build a book list.
Criteria?
Relevance to critical thought
Fiction? maybe
In print or free download e-format

Start off

Under the Banner of Heaven A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer 2003
ISBN 0-965-77840-1
An analysis of the murder of a young woman and her infant child by men who claimed they were ordered to kill by God. Mormonism and its aberant progeny.

Scoundrel Time

Lillian Hellman 1976

ISBN 0-553-10282-6

A short memoir of that period in US history when the House Committee on Un-American Activities became the modern version of the Inquisition.

An Irreverent an Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything
Frank Muir 1976
ISBN 0-88029-231-8

Chapters: Music, Education, Literature, Theatre, Art, Food and Drink

caustic and funny -thoroughly irreverent!

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

Elaine Pagels 2005

ISBN 0-375-50156-8

permission to think is granted

A good history of the early development of the death cult known as Christianity