Here are some book titles that you can read to find out more about Humanism, Humanist values, and social justice topics. We also including some fiction that has humanist values and/or themes. These books should be available at your local library, bookstore, or online. [Try to support your local library and book sellers] This is not a complete list and if you have an idea for a title we should list, let us know through our contact form.
Humanism
Creating Change Through Humanism By Roy Speckhardt
Justice-Centered Humanism By Roy Speckhardt
Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical: Humanism in Practice by Sikivu Hutchinson
Elle the Humanist by Elle Harris, Douglas Harris
Jen Hancock’s Handy Humanism Handbook by Jen Hancock
The Philosophy of Humanism, Eighth Edition
Humanism as the Next Step by Mary Morain and Lloyd Morain
Freethought
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Kindle Edition by Carl Sagan
Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy by Megan Rahm
Women Without Superstition : No Gods – No Masters By Annie Laurie Gaylor
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby
Atheism
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
by Sikivu Hutchinson
Woe to the Women: The Bible, Female Sexuality and the Law: The Bible Tells Me so by Annie Laurie Gaylor and Alma Cuebas
Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning by Dan Barker
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists By Dan Barker
Social Justice
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Works of Fiction
Contact by Carl Sagan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein