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Kofer Reading List

Non-fiction
Who Wrote the Bible? - by Richard Elliott Friedman
The Bible with Sources Revealed - by Richard Elliott Friedman
The Bible Unearthed - by Neil Asher Silberman and Israel Finkelstein
The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - by Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values - by Sam Harris
God is Not Great - by Christopher Hitchens
Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice - by Michael L. Satlow
Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. 1 - by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson - by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Judaism in a Secular Age: An Anthology of Secular Humanistic Jewish Thought (Library of Secular Humanistic Judaism) - by Renee Kogel
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion - by Alain de Botton
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Jewish Encounters) - by Rebecca Goldstein
How to Read the Bible - by James L. Kugel
How to Read the Bible - by Marc Z. Brettler
Breaking the spell - by Daniel C. Dennet
Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History from Ezekiel to Daniel - by Gabriele Boccaccini
The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile - by Yechezkel Kaufmann
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - by Karen Armstrong
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Oxford World's Classics) - by Emile Durkheim
The Evolution of God - by Robert Wright
America's Four Gods: What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us - by Paul Froese
Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels - by Hella Winston
The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity - by Craig A. James

Memoirs
The Rabbi's Daughter - by Reva Mann
I Am Forbidden - by Anouk Markovits
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots - by Deborah Feldman
Hush - by 'Eishes Chayil'
Foreskin's lament - by Shalom Auslander (here is a video of Auslander, reading an excerpt of his book, and here is part 2)

Fiction
Disobedience: A Novel - by Naomi Alderman
The Romance Reader - by Pearl Abraham
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - by Nathan Englander
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
My name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
In the Beginning - Chaim Potok
A Seat at the Table - by Joshua Halberstam
Sotah - by Naomi Ragen (or other books by Naomi Ragen)
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Vintage Contemporaries) - by Rebecca Goldstein
The Family Muskat - by Isaac Bashevis Singer
As a Driven Leaf - by Milton Steinberg

Hebrew
Hadat kamah al yotzreha - by Yaron Yadan

Books apologetic to Orthodox Judaism
Off the Derech - by Faranak Margolese
God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along - by Gerald Schroeder
Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible - by Gerald Schroeder
Jewish Women in Time and Torah - by Eliezer Berkovits

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