The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer is a 2007 book by Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens writes introductions for the selected writings of philosophers, scientists and other thinkers such as Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and others.

Contents

Chapter 1: Lucretius

De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) - Books I, III, V, translation by W. Hannaford Brown

Chapter 2: Omar Khayyám

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations by Richard Le Gallienne

Chapter 3: Thomas Hobbes

Of Religion, from Leviathan

Chapter 4: Benedict De Spinoza

Theological-Political Treatise

Chapter 5: David Hume

The Natural History of Religion, Of Miracles

Chapter 6: James Boswell

An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq.

Chapter 7: Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Refutation of Deism

Chapter 8: John Stuart Mill

Moral Influences in My Early Youth, From Autobiography

Chapter 9: Karl Marx

Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Chapter 10: George Eliot

Evangelical Teaching

Chapter 11: Charles Darwin

Autobiography

Chapter 12: Leslie Stephen

An Agnostic's Apology

Chapter 13: Anatole France

Miracle

Chapter 14: Mark Twain

Thoughts of God, From Fables of Man; Bible Teaching and Religious Practice, From Europe and Elsewhere and A Pen Warmed Up in Hell

Chapter 15: Joseph Conrad

Authors's Note to The Shadow Line

Chapter 16: Thomas Hardy

God's Funeral

Chapter 17: Emma Goldman

The Philosophy of Atheism

Chapter 18: H.P. Lovecraft

A Letter on Religion

Chapter 19: Carl Van Doren

Why I am An Unbeliever

Chapter 20: H.L. Mencken

Memorial Service

Chapter 21: Sigmund Freud

From The Future of an Illusion, translated and edited by James Strachey

Chapter 22: Albert Einstein

Selected Writings on Religion

Chapter 23: George Orwell

From A Clergyman's Daughter

Chapter 24: John Betjeman

In Westminster Abbey

Chapter 25: Chapman Cohen

Monism and Religion An Old Story

Chapter 26: Bertrand Russell

An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish

Chapter 27: Philip Larkin

Aubade Church Going

Chapter 28: Martin Gardner

The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming

Chapter 29: Carl Sagan

The Demon-Haunted World The God Hypothesis

Chapter 30: John Updike

From Roger's Version

Chapter 31: J.L. Mackie

Conclusions and Implications, From The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God

Chapter 32: Michael Shermer

Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story

Chapter 33: A.J. Ayer

That Undiscovered Country

Chapter 34: Daniel C. Dennett

Thank Goodness!

Chapter 35: Charles Templeton

From A Farewell to God, A Personal Word, and Questions to Ask Yourself

Chapter 36: Richard Dawkins

Why There Almost Certainly is No God, Gerin Oil, and Atheists for Jesus

Chapter 37: Victor Stenger

From God: The Failed Hypothesis, Cosmic Evidence

Chapter 38: Daniel C. Dennett

A Working Definition of Religion from "Breaking Which Spell?"

Chapter 39: Elizabeth Anderson

If God is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?

Chapter 40: Penn Jillette

There is No God

Chapter 41: Ian McEwan

End of the World Blues

Chapter 42: Steven Weinberg

What About God? From Dreams of a Final Theory

Chapter 43: Salman Rushdie

"Imagine There's no Heaven": A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen

Chapter 44: Ibn Warraq

The Koran, The Totalitarian Nature of Islam

Chapter 45: Sam Harris

In the Shadow of God, From The End of Faith

Chapter 46: A.C. Grayling

Can an Atheist Be a Fundamentalist? From Against All Gods

Chapter 47: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

How (and Why) I Became an Infidel