This is a list of books which I have read, or am reading, and which I recommend.
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Adrian Desmond and James Moore
A. F. Chalmers
What is this Thing Called Science?
A. G. Cairns-Smith
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story
Alister E. McGrath
The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine
Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life
Mere Theology: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind
Antonio Damasio
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Arthur R. Peacocke
Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
Ben Goldacre
Bertrand Russell
Carl Zimmer
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Where Did We Come From?: The Essential Guide to Human Evolution
Charles Darwin
Charles Foster
The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin
Wired for God? The Biology of Spiritual Experience
Daniel Coyle
The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t Born, it’s Grown
Daniel C. Dennett
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
David Attenborough
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
David Crystal
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
Denis Alexander
Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?
Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Ernest Lucas
Can We Believe Genesis Today?: The Bible and the Quesions of Science
Francisco J. Ayala
Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion
Fritjof Capra
The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter
G. K. Chesterton
Guy Deutscher
The Unfolding of Language: The Evolution of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World
Ian McEwan
Ian Tattersall
The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
Jared M. Diamond
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live
Jeremy Butterfield
Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare
John Carey (edited by)
John Gribbin and Michael White
John Maynard Smith
Did Darwin Get it Right?: Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution
John Polkinghorne
Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding
(with) Nicholas Beale
Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science and Belief
Keith Ward
The Word of God: The Bible after Modern Scholarship
Why There Almost Certainly is a God: Doubting Dawkins
Kenneth R. Miller
Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul
Lewis Thomas
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Tipping Point: How Little Things can make a Big Difference
Mark Carwardine
Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
Martin Rees
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe
Matt Ridley
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Michael Poole
The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that don’t Hold Water
Michael Ruse
Can a Darwinian be a Christian?: The Relationship between Science and Religion
Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
Defining Darwin: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?
The Evolution-Creation Struggle
Michio Kaku
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through the 10th Dimension
Neil Johnson
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
Neil Shubin
Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-million-year-old Ancestor
Nick Spencer
Paul Davies
The Mind of God: Science & the Search for Ultimate Meaning
Peter Atkins
On Being: A Scientist’s Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
Peter J. Bowler
Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence
Peter S. Williams
A Sceptic’s Guide to Atheism: God is not Dead!
I Wish I could Believe in Meaning: A Response to Nihilism
René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy with Selections from the Objections and Replies
Richard Dawkins
A Devil’s Chaplain: Selected Writings
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
(edited by)
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Richard Fortey
The Earth: An Intimate History
Robert T. Pennock
Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism
Simon Conway Morris
Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Stephen Jay Gould
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections on Natural History
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Johnson
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
Steven Mithen
The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science
Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
