Title: “The Good Book: A Humanist Bible”

Author: A.C. Grayling

Rank: 21

Blurb: “Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and — yes —the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done.”

Review: “Here is a book I am not afraid to let my child read. No stories about daughters banging their drunk dad. No stories about sacrificing unnamed daughters to some god. No cooking food over dung. No genocide. No deaths of all first born sons. No promises of cured illnesses. No appeals to an end of the universe. No masochistic gods having themselves beaten so they can become a zombie. Nope. Just a clean book of good thoughts.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”, by Bobby Henderson

Footnote: Any atheist who needs a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible is unclear on the concept.

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Title: “63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read”

Authors: Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell

Rank: 7

Blurb: “The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non-partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt… Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps.”

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Title: “Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers”

Author: James C. Humes

Rank: 88

Blurb: “Ever wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches?”

Review: “Each chapter of the book is divided into chapters that start with the word power.”

Customers Also Bought: “On Speaking Well”, by Peggy Noonan

Footnote: Endorsed by Chris Matthews and Roger Ailes. Which explains everything.

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Title: “Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem To The Resurrection”

Author: Pope Benedict XVI

Rank: 23

Blurb: “Benedict brings to his study the vast learning of a brilliant scholar, the passionate searching of a great mind, and the deep compassion of a pastor’s heart.”

Review: “While some reviews have focused on the fact that Benedict is more willing to point the blame of the Resurrection at Pilate and the Romans instead of the Jews, there are other moments of ecumenism from the Holy Father.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis”, Robert R. Reilly

Footnote: How you get from the Sermon on the Mount to an opulent palace in Rome is another story.

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Title: “Infinite Quest: Develop Your Psychic Intuition to Take Charge of Your Life”

Author: John Edward

Rank: 77

Blurb: “By following certain guidelines and intuition-building exercises, we can learn to get in touch with our Spirit Guides and identify the psychic energy around us on deeper levels.”

Review: “I really liked John’s description of his team of energetic guides that instruct, poke, and inspire him from the Not-Earthly-Plane-of-Being. I want my own team, too! Do I recruit them on Craigslist?”

Customers Also Bought: “Do Dead People Watch You Shower? And Other Questions You’ve Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium”, by Concetta Bertoldi

Footnote: Edward, not Edwards. Although they’re both charlatans.

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Title: “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement”

Authors: David Brooks

Rank: 5

Blurb: “I try to explain how these findings about the deepest recesses of our minds should change the way we see ourselves, raise our kids, conduct business, teach, manage our relationships and practice politics.”

Review: “People who read books of this type used to be called ‘existentialist.'”

Customers Also Bought: “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Footnote: Stop the presses! Rational man discovers intuition! It’ll change everything you know! Unless, of course, like the Greeks, you knew it already.

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Title: “Revolt!: How to Defeat Obama and Repeal His Socialist Programs”

Authors: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Rank: 41

Blurb: “Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton’s political consultant for twenty years.”

Review: “I received my larger than expected box of cd’s for REVOLT. 9 disks. It is really easy to listen while driving or sitting at my computer. My mom listens to hers in her stereo so it broadcasts across the house while she works.”

Customers Also Bought: “How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda”, by Andrew C. McCarthy

Footnote: Manson was an amateur.

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