Books like 36 arguments for the existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein

Richard Dawkins argues that belief in God is irrational, harmful, and unnecessary, presenting scientific, historical, and philosophical evidence to refute religious claims and promote a secular, reason‑based worldview.

C.S. Lewis’ radio talks, later published as three books, are compiled in "Mere Christianity," a clear apologia that explores core Christian beliefs and ethics across denominations.

A brilliant mathematics professor with a unique short‑term memory loss finds unexpected companionship and a new family through the help of a perceptive housekeeper and her young son.

On Beauty explores a New England family’s life as they confront love, identity, and cultural divides over three decades, weaving personal struggles with broader conversations about race and belonging.

A physicist narrator links the lives of Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, two brilliant logicians and mathematicians, in parallel narratives that explore their obsessive pursuit of truth, their personal struggles, and the indifference of mathematics to their dramas.

Timothy Keller tackles the biggest doubts raised by skeptics, showing how faith in God can be rational and compassionate, and offering a clear defense for Christian belief that invites both believers and questioners to understand its depth.

David Leavitt’s biography follows G.H. Hardy’s discovery of Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1913, and shows how the mathematicians’ partnership reshaped math during the First World War.

Laura Moriarty’s debut novel, The Center of Everything, follows a young woman’s journey from Kansas to New York as she navigates motherhood, genius, and first love, all portrayed with warmth and poignancy.

This book deals with a limited aspect of religion. Any well-developed religion is a very complex entity which unites components of very different sorts. There is probably no living religion that does not involve a set of characteristic beliefs, some prescribed or recommended practices (public or private, or both), some characteristic feelings or emotions, and some institutions or social arrangements. In addition, religions usually involve their adherents in special forms of experience. With respect to the complexity that it generates, interest in religion is similar to other pervasive human interests and activities, such as those that generate scientific enterprises. For some purposes, however, it is useful to separate the aspects of a complex phenomenon and to discuss one or another of these aspects individually, so far as is possible. This is the procedure that I will adopt here. My discussion is aimed primarily at that element of religious interest that centers upon belief, with what one might call the noetic aspect of religion. Some of the other aspects that I have mentioned- most notably religious experience and, to a much smaller extent, religious institutions- are discussed, but only to the extent that I take them to be relevant to questions about belief. But, of course, the should not be construed to imply that these other aspects of religion are unimportant.