Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13th, 1949 and passed away at the age of 62 on December 15th, 2011.

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Christopher Hitchens Stats: The highest rated book by Christopher Hitchens on Book Notification is God Is Not Great, a Non-Fiction book. The second-highest rated book is The Portable Atheist, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by Christopher Hitchens on Book Notification is God Is Not Great, a Non-Fiction book. The second most read book is The Portable Atheist, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Christopher Hitchens books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Imperial Spoils
1987
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2
The Parthenon Marbles
1987
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3
7.7
The Portable Atheist
2007
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4
The Quotable Hitchens
2011
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Inequalities In Zimbabwe
1979
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2
Hostage to History
1984
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3
Cyprus
1984
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4
Prepared for the Worst
1988
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5
8
The Monarchy
1990
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6
Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
1990
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7
For the Sake of Argument
1993
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8
Unacknowledged Legislation
2000
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9
Why Orwell Matters
2002
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10
Orwell's Victory
2002
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11
Left Hooks, Right Crosses
2002
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12
A Long Short War
2003
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13
Regime Change
2003
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14
Love, Poverty, and War
2004
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15
8.6
God Is Not Great
2007
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16
10
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics
2008
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17
10
Is Christianity Good for the World? (With: Douglas Wilson)
2008
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18
Blood, Class and Empire
2009
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19
10
Letters to a Young Contrarian
2009
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20
9.5
Hitch-22: A Memoir
2010
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21
9
The Enemy
2011
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22
Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie
2011
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23
10
No One Left to Lie To
2012
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24
10
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
2012
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25
7.6
The Missionary Position
2012
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26
7.7
Mortality
2012
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27
8
Arguably
2014
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28
And Yet...: Essays
2015
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29
8
The Atheist Manifesto
2016
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30
10
The Four Horsemen (With: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris)
2019
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31
A Hitch in Time
2021
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List of Art of Mentoring Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Letters to a Young Mathematician (By: Ian Stewart)
2007
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2
Letters to a Young Lawyer (By: Alan M. Dershowitz)
2008
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3
Letters To A Young Evangelical (By: Tony Campolo)
2008
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4
Letters to a Young Gymnast (By: Nan Fischer)
2009
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5
Letters to a Young Conservative (By: Nan Fischer)
2009
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6
Letters to a Young Actor (By: Robert Brustein)
2009
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7
10
Letters to a Young Contrarian
2009
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8
Letters to a Young Activist (By: Todd Gitlin)
2009
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9
Letters to a Young Journalist (By: Samuel G. Freedman)
2011
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10
Letters to a Young Catholic (By: George Weigel)
2015
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11
Letters to a Young Chef (By: Nan Fischer)
2019
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List of Books That Changed the World Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
2006
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2
The Qur'an: A Biography (By: Bruce B. Lawrence)
2006
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3
Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (By: Janet Browne)
2006
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4
On The Wealth of Nations (By: P.J. O'Rourke)
2006
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5
Homer's The Iliad And The Odyssey ( By: Alberto Manguel)
2007
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6
The Bible (By: Karen Armstrong)
2007
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7
The Qur'an (By: Bruce B. Lawrence)
2007
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8
Darwin's Origin of Species (By: Janet Browne)
2007
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9
Plato's Republic (By: Simon Blackburn)
2007
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10
Clausewitz's on War (By: Hew Strachan)
2007
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11
Marx's Das Kapital (By: Francis Wheen)
2007
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List of Eminent Lives Books in Publication Order

Provides short, easy-to-read biographies of famous people written in a straightforward style.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time (By: Karen Armstrong)
1991
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2
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (By: Michael Korda)
2004
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3
George Balanchine (By: Robert Gottlieb)
2004
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4
Beethoven (By: Edmund Morris)
2005
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5
6
Thomas Jefferson
2005
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6
Caravaggio ( By: Francine Prose)
2005
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7
Alexander the Great (By: Norman F. Cantor)
2005
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8
Freud (By: Peter D. Kramer)
2006
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9
Francis Crick (By: Matt Ridley)
2006
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10
Alexis de Tocqueville (By: Joseph Epstein)
2006
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11
Shakespeare (By: Bill Bryson)
2007
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12
Machiavelli (By: Ross King)
2007
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13
George Washington (By: Paul Johnson)
2009
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List of The Munk Debates Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Munk Debates: Volume One (By: Rudyard Griffiths)
2010
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2
Hitchens vs. Blair
2011
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3
Does the 21st Century Belong to China? (By: Henry Kissinger)
2011
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4
North America’s Lost Decade (By: Ian Bremmer, Paul Krugman, David Rosenberg, Lawrence H. Summers)
2012
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5
Has the European Experiment Failed? (By: Niall Ferguson)
2012
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6
Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons? (By: Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
2013
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7
Should We Tax the Rich More? (By: Rudyard Griffiths)
2013
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8
Are Men Obsolete?: The Munk Debate on Gender (By: Camille Paglia, Caitlin Moran, Maureen Dowd, Hanna Rosin)
2014
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9
Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place? (By: Bret Stephens)
2015
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10
The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy: The Munk Debates (By: Steven Harper, Justin Trudeau, Thomas Mulcair)
2015
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11
Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia? (By: Garry Kasparov)
2015
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12
Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again? (By: Newt Gingrich)
2016
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13
The Global Refugee Crisis (By: Mark Steyn)
2016
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14
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? (By: Rudyard Griffiths)
2017
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15
Is American Democracy in Crisis? (By: Kimberley Strassel)
2018
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16
Political Correctness (By: Jordan B. Peterson)
2018
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17
The Rise of Populism (By: Rudyard Griffiths)
2019
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18
China and the West (By: Rudyard Griffiths, H.R. McMaster, Michael Pillsbury, Kishore Mahbubani, Huiyao Wang)
2019
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19
Future of Capitalism (By: Rudyard Griffiths)
2021
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List of Nation Books in Publication Order

Gives voice to passionate witnesses and dissenting journalism on urgent controversies.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Los Gusanos (By: John Sayles)
1991
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2
The Best of The Nation (By: Victor Navasky, vanden Heuvel, Katrina)
2000
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3
The Betrayal of America (By: Vincent Bugliosi)
2001
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4
Dreaming War (By: Gore Vidal)
2002
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5
Unsustainable (By: Eamonn Fingleton)
2003
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6
The Red and the Blacklist (By: Norma Barzman)
2003
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7
Napoleon's Glance (By: William Duggan)
2003
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8
Shaking the Foundations (By: Pete Hamill, Bruce Shapiro)
2003
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9
A Prayer for America (By: Dennis Kucinich)
2003
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10
Taking Back America (By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Robert L. Borosage)
2004
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11
A Hole in the World (By: Jonathan Schell)
2004
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12
The Truth About Camp David (By: Clayton E. Swisher)
2004
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13
The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita (By: Norman Mailer, Mickey Knox)
2004
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14
Murdered by Capitalism (By: John Ross)
2004
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15
Imperial America (By: Gore Vidal)
2004
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16
Killed (By: David Wallis)
2004
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17
Love, Poverty, and War
2004
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18
The High Times Reader (By: Ann Nocenti, Paul Krassner, Ruth Baldwin)
2004
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19
Deserter from Death (By: Howard Zinn, Daniel Singer)
2005
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20
Blood, Class and Empire
2009
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21
Genocide of the Mind (By: Vine Deloria Jr.)
2009
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List of The Last Interview Books in Publication Order

Numerous interviews with renowned intellectuals and writers.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)
2005
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2
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)
2009
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3
Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
2011
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4
Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges)
2012
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5
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)
2013
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6
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace)
2014
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7
James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe)
2014
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8
Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller)
2014
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9
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)
2015
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10
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)
2015
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11
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)
2015
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12
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)
2015
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13
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)
2015
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14
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)
2016
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15
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)
2016
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16
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)
2016
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17
7
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)
2016
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18
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)
2017
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19
Christopher Hitchens
2017
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20
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)
2018
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21
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)
2018
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22
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)
2018
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23
9
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)
2019
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24
Prince (By: Prince )
2019
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25
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)
2019
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26
Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House, Helen Rosner)
2019
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27
Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene)
2019
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28
Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison)
2020
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29
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)
2020
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30
Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle)
2020
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31
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House)
2020
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32
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)
2021
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33
The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
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34
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
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35
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)
2021
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36
John Lewis (By: Melville House)
2021
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37
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)
2022
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38
Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House)
2022
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39
Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House)
2022
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40
Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks)
2023
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41
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)
2023
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List of Christopher Hitchens Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Performance and Reality
1989
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2
The Weekly Standard: A Reader: 1995-2005
2005
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3
Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
2009
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4
I Shouldn't Be Alive: Saved at the Precipice of Life
2014
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5
Citing Atheists: Quotes of Agnosticism, Non-Theism, Skepticism, Irreligion, Free Thought, and Philosophy
2015
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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was born on April 13th, 1949. Christopher passed away December 15th, 2011 at 62 years old. Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England.

Christopher Hitchens has published 31 Non-Fiction Books. The first was released in 1979 with the book Inequalities In Zimbabwe. The most recently released was A Hitch in Time which was released in 2021.

Christopher Hitchens: Lists & Other Mentions

  • God Is Not Great was a New York Times: #1 Nonfiction Best Seller in 2007.
  • Hitch-22: A Memoir was a New York Times: The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years Selection in 2019.

Related Authors

Fans of Christopher Hitchens also enjoy these authors:

  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
  2. Ray Bradbury, author of: Fahrenheit 451.
  3. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings Series.
  4. George Orwell, author of: 1984.
  5. Neil Gaiman, author of the American Gods Series.

Christopher Hitchens: F.A.Q

When was Christopher Hitchens Born?

Christopher Hitchens was born on April 13th, 1949.

When did Christopher Hitchens die?

Christopher Hitchens died on December 15th, 2011 at 62 years old.

Where was Christopher Hitchens Born?

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England, .

What was the first book Christopher Hitchens wrote?

The first book written by Christopher Hitchens was Inequalities In Zimbabwe, published in 1979.

What was the most recent book Christopher Hitchens wrote?

Their most recently released work was A Hitch in Time on November 25th, 2021.

What is the most popular book by Christopher Hitchens?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Christopher Hitchens book is God Is Not Great. Here are their most popular books:
  1. God Is Not Great (8.62)
  2. The Portable Atheist (7.71)
  3. Mortality (7.67)
  4. Hitch-22: A Memoir (9.5)
  5. Arguably (8)

How many books has Christopher Hitchens written?

Christopher Hitchens has written 39 books across 11 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 4 Standalone Novels
  • 31 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Art of Mentoring Series
  • 1 book in the Books That Changed the World Series
  • 1 book in the Eminent Lives Series
  • 1 book in The Munk Debates Series
  • 2 books in the Nation Series
  • 1 book in The Last Interview Series

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