Christopher Eric Hitchens, author and journalist, columnist and literary critic for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, The Nation and others died at 62 years of age on December 15th from complications from esophageal cancer. He was voted the world's 5th top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Affairs opinion poll. Here are some of the books Canton Library owns by this controversial author:

God is not great: how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens

Hitch-22: a memoir by Christopher Hitchens

Love, poverty, and war: journeys and essays by Christopher Hitchens

The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever by selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Jefferson: author of America by Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Jefferson [Large print]: author of America by Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Paine's Rights of man of man by Christopher Hitchens

Why Orwell matters by Christopher Hitchens

God is not great [electronic resource]: how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens