Richard Dawkins
Goodreads Author
Born
in Nairobi, Kenya
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June 2008
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The God Delusion
153 editions
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2006
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The Selfish Gene
185 editions
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1976
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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71 editions
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2009
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
118 editions
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1986
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
20 editions
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2004
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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78 editions
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2011
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
54 editions
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1998
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Climbing Mount Improbable
42 editions
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1996
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
31 editions
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1982
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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1995
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
― Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Polls

Addendum: Since we only usually get about 11 or so votes each time, I'm going to close this poll and put up a tie-breaker poll for Unbroken and The Ancestor's Tale.
September is now officially a non-fiction month for genre so it's time to vote for our September read. Last day to vote will be Saturday, August 9. (Non-Fiction will no longer be present in our regular monthly genre polls)
There are some really great titles on this list so please do your research before placing your vote. Thanks!
September is now officially a non-fiction month for genre so it's time to vote for our September read. Last day to vote will be Saturday, August 9. (Non-Fiction will no longer be present in our regular monthly genre polls)
There are some really great titles on this list so please do your research before placing your vote. Thanks!
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

The Ancestor's Tale
Richard Dawkins

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Harriet Reisen

Poe: A Life Cut Short
Peter Ackroyd

Starvation Heights
Gregg Olsen

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder
Holly Tucker

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft

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