#7. The Roar of Atheist Books
Statistics may or may not show that there has been an actual increase in
the number of Americans who believe there is no God. But one thing is
certain: Conservative religious influence riled up enough secular authors to
produce a slew of skeptical literature, and enough readers were intrigued to
turn Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Sam Harris (Letter to
a Christian Nation) into bold-faced names and turn Christopher Hitchens
(God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything), bold-faced
already, into a one-man literary cottage industry.