I've seen a Catholic ask the reverse about new atheist books, so it's a fair question. Theists of course do so as a prelude to dismissing all new atheist books as not worth the time to read them. Confirmation bias.
But what would a new book on creationism even look like? The memoirs of Ken Ham? It's been a while since any new philosophical argument for God was proposed, and even then, arguing the existence of "a deity" is not quite the same as a rigorous and scientific demonstration that the particularly Roman Catholic god is the true one. This is not even the same god as the Protestant one. --The Catholic one sent Jesus to die, but thousands of years later still isn't sure why that had to happen. After all justification isn't by faith, it's by baptism. Sanctifying grace is drip fed through the sacraments ex opere operato, and the perfect innocence of Jesus isn't imputed to Catholics either (and definitely not through faith), so they have to go through Purgatory. The substitutionary death of Christ (and that's clearly how the story is intended, fictional as it may be) has no place in Catholicism. This is an entirely different plan to the god of Protestants. So if a Catholic philosopher / theologian were to come up with a book that "proved" the existence of God... which god? If a Protestant philosopher / theologian had a book that proved the existence of God... which god?
None of these arguments for the plausibility of a deity gives us access to the mind and personality and objectives of that deity. The grounds for believing any particular religion is still zero.
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