You have 47 texts by different authors questioning the existence of god since antiquity, starting with Lucretius and working through history up to our modern times. Texts are from Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Victor Stenger, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq. Interestingly, also fiction authors such as Mark Twain George Orwell, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, George Eliot, ...
As the title says, this is a book with all the noteworthy essential texts on atheism, many of which I already read in the books of Harris, Dawkins, Sagan or through other books.
It's a great reference book, not one to read in one go, and useful for atheists. With books like this one, I also hope that religious people will read it, preferably with an open mind, but I doubt this will ever happen.
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