Deconversion Reading List

A always-updated list of books that shed light on why people lose their faith in Christianity in the modern age.

The Sacredness of Questioning Everything | David Dark

Life’s Too Short To Pretend You’re Not Religious | David Dark

Disappearing Church | Mark Sayers

Reappearing Church | Mark Sayers

After Doubt | A. J. Swoboda

The Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in An Age of Self Obsession | Mark Sayers

Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy | Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey

A Rumor of Angels | Peter Berger

Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari

In Praise of Doubt | Peter Berger

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society | Lesslie Newbigin

Proper Confidence | Lesslie Newbigin

A Secular Age | Charles Taylor

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self | Carl Trueman

You Lost Me | David Kinnaman

Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science | Mike McHargue

Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions | Rachel Held Evans

How (Not) To Be Secular | Jamie Smith