These are the books that led to my awakening:
The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli
How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice From an Evolutionist - John W.Loftus
Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters - Donald R. Prothero
Crisis of Conscience - Raymond Franz
Apocalypse Delayed - Penton
The Quest for the Historical Israel - Israel Finkelstein
The Finished Mystery - WTB&TS
Captives of a Concept - Don Cameron
1984 - George Orwell (What a genius!)
Some other books I found really helpful in sorting out the mess (in no particular order):
The Invention of Religion - Alexander Drake
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of your Life - Richard W. Paul
Cognitive Illusions: A Handbook on Fallacies & Biases... - Rudiger F. Pohl
The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf
A History of Religion in the Old Testament Period - Rainer Albertz
Waking Up - Sam Harris
Rock of Ages - Stephen J. Gould
The Pursuit of the Millennium - Norman Cohn
The Battle For God - Karen Armstrong
Angels & Women - J.G.Smith
Questioning the Millennium - Stephen J. Gould
How Jesus became God - Bart D. Ehrman
The Better Angels of our Nature - Steven Pinker
The Moral Arc - Michael Shermer
Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland
What also helped me was reading many books on Scientology & North Korea and noticing the similarities!