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Read any good books lately?
Here is a list of some favorites with brief descriptions.
| Author | Title | Pub | What's it about? |
| Darwin, Charles | On the Origin of Species | 1859 | The seminal work. Victorian books don’t read quite like modern ones, but still very accessible, and very wise. |
| Dawkins, Richard | The God Delusion | 2006 | The most influential modern polemic against religion |
| Dawkins, Richard | The Greatest Show on Earth | 2010 | Semi-technical summary of the evidence for evolution. More polemical than Jerry Coyne’s offering, but covers similar ground. |
| Coyne, Jerry | Why Evolution is True | 2010 | Semi-technical summary of the evidence for evolution. Very persuasive. |
| Christopher Hitchens | God Is Not Great | 2007 | Covers similar ground to The God Delusion but with a nod in the direction of Islam. |
| Olivier Roy | Globalised Islam | 2004 | Laying out the case about the threat from Islam - interesting especially in the current environment. |
| Jamie Whyte | Crimes Against Logic | 2003 | Incisive and witty, it exposes the simple errors of judgement and reasoning that we all make, all of the time. Brilliantly challenges and destroys commonly-held assumptions. Example? How about the chapter in which Whyte explains convincingly why you do not have a right to your opinion? |
Members of UKAFHA can add their own recommendations and comments in the members forum.
