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I don't see why you need to debate this with your father. On several forums I've advised young atheists with religiously obsessive parents that they need to secure themselves financially so that they don't have to move back in with these parents in our bad economy. A teenage or college-aged atheist shouldn't announce his apostasy until he can finish college with a marketable degree, get a job, pay off all debts down to zero and then save up about a year's worth of living expenses in case he becomes unemployed. Young atheists who do this will have the financial protection they need to tell their respective families about their atheism.
I'm going to assume that you'll probably ignore the above advice because it's your relationship with your father, not the financial dependency (if any), that matters. In that case, start with framsey's last piece of advice. Move on to the rest of it. Then, if you are still reading a book "he's having me read," I recommend choosing a book or article that you're "having him read," if you can find one that seems worthwhile. Fair's fair.
It would be probably also useful to limit the number of books, to prevent the algorithm: "I will be giving you more and more books, until you eventually give up, because you will be too tired to read yet another book."
For example to commit to read "five books you consider most convincing", but not one more.