BOOK BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE RANDOM HOUSE, 2024 “It’s all about the fabulous monkey trial that rocked America!” That was the slogan on the poster of the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, but it describes Keeping... Read More

BOOK BY KATE COHEN DAVID R. GODINE, PUBLISHER, 2023 While reading Kate Cohen’s We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should Too), I found myself nodding. A lot. I also caught... Read More

BOOK BY DOUGLAS HARRIS LABEL FREE PUBLISHING, 2023 While helping his daughter Elle write Elle the Humanist (a child’s story about being nonreligious and confidently sharing your beliefs and values with friends), Doug Harris read... Read More

BOOK BY SARAH BAKEWELL PENGUIN PRESS, 2023 In her latest book, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope—out this year from Penguin Press—Sarah Bakewell jumps right in on the first page... Read More

Adam the Ape by Wolfgang Wambach is an exciting adventure novel with hand-drawn illustrations for readers eight to fourteen years old. It follows a boy named Kenny who is unable to verbally speak, so he... Read More

BOOK BY LYDIA GORDON The Fundamentals, by Lydia Gordon, explores the influence of fundamentalist religion on a small-town community, told through the perspectives of three women. Alexa Moss is a humanist, an architect, and a... Read More

BOOK BY WAYNE LAUFERT HUMANIST PRESS, 2022 In Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, has become “unstuck in time,” moving uncontrollably between various periods and places in his life—primarily three:... Read More