| Essential Reading | |||
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | Houghton Mifflin 2006 | |
| Blind Watchmaker | Richard Dawkins | Penguin 1986 | |
| Humanist Anthology | Margaret Knight | Pemberton 1961 | |
| Honest to Goodness | Celebrating 25 Years of HSNZ | Humanist Society (NZ) 1992 | |
| Essential Authors | |||
| Richard Dawkins | First chapter | British Academic | |
| Stephen Jay Gould | American Academic | ||
| Paul Kurtz | American Academic | ||
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| Recommended Reading | |||
| This Thing of Darkness | Harry Thompson | Headline Book Publishing 2005 | |
| Heathen in Godzone | Bill Cooke | NZARH 2000 | |
| Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee | Jared Diamond | Vintage 1992 | |
| Guns, Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond | Vintage 1998 | |
| The Origins of Virtue | Matt Ridley | Viking 1996 | |
| The Ethical Teacher | Ivan Snook | Dunmoore Press 2003 | |
| the Portable Atheist | Christopher Hitchens | Da Capo Press 2007 | |
| Good Stuff | |||
| Matthew Flinders' Cat | Bryce Courtenay | Viking 2002 | |
| How To Be Good | Nick Hornby | Penguin Books 2001 | |