Richard Dawkins's Book Recommendations

"Strong title, and the book lives up to it."

"Just read ‘Freedom from Speech’ by Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff, co-author of ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’, which is also very good, by the way). Strong title, and the book lives up to it. It’s short, in a series the publishers call Broadsides. Strongly recommended."

"A truly brilliant book, elegantly written, sparkling with wit, driving nails hard home on every page."

"Enlightenment Now is such a truly brilliant book, elegantly written, sparkling with wit, driving nails hard home on every page, I can only conclude that the few carping, mean-spirited negative reviewers are jealous."

"Utterly superb book, recommended unreservedly."

"The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, audiobook read by @JonHaidt. Utterly superb book, recommended unreservedly. Brilliant book, exposes one of the major things wrong with society today. Please please read it."

"Read The Good News Club and be horrified by what Supreme Court allowed."

"A beautifully written account of what it's like to feel you're a woman trapped in a man's body."

"Putin comes across as a deeply nasty piece of work, Trump a blundering idiot."

"A pretty wonderful book."

"Lovely book. Last chapter worthy of Carl Sagan himself."

"Powerful book."

"A delight. Give it like a bunch of flowers to someone you love."

"Highly stimulating, lots to think about, lots to learn."

"Now re-reading (actually listening to) Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen’s wonderful book, Human Universe. Beautifully & intelligently written (& the same goes for Samuel West’s reading). A book that fills one with admiration for science as perhaps humanity’s most sublime achievement."

"Teaches me things I didn’t know while provoking in me thoughts I never had before, setting my mind racing in new directions."

"Just read @NeilTyson’s latest book, Starry Messenger, the title appropriately a translation of Galileo’s Siderius Nuncius. Every page lit up by an original poetic imagination but bearing the unmistakable stamp of a rational mind, steeped in maths and science."

"Forget labels like “right wing” & “dark web”, read a book without preconceptions about the author & judge what it actually says. For what it’s worth, I always vote left & I think Douglas Murray’s The War on the West is utterly superb. Please read it with an open mind. Please."

"The Cheating Cell by @AthenaAktipis. Darwinian approach to evolution of cancer and cancer-resistance. Brilliant book, up there with Nesse & Williams. Tussle between opposing selection pressures means cancer is an inevitable byproduct of selection for individual advantage."

"Just read @andrewdoyle_com’s powerful book, Free Speech & Why it Matters. Feeling very persuaded, so morally should read opposing view. Any sensible defence of prosecuting “hate speech”? Especially the astonishing Scottish proposal to prosecute hate speech in privacy of home?"

"The Little Book of Humanism by Andrew Copson & Alice Roberts is a delight. Give it like a bunch of flowers to someone you love. A compendium of uplifting quotations woven together by the two leading figures in today’s Humanists UK (new name for British Humanist Association)."

"“Speech” by Simon Prentis. Enigmatic book. Glad to have read it. About importance of language more than its origin. Musings of an intelligent, decent, well-read ,well-travelled polyglot, well-versed in cultures as well as languages, a literate, stylish writer @memesovergenes"