Best books...chosen by Richard Dawkins

Evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins is now at work on a two-part memoir.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is the best-selling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. His newest book, An Appetite for Wonder, is the first volume of what will be a two-part memoir.

Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley (Penguin UK, $21). This epic saga sweeping through four generations of life among Kenya’s Kikuyu tribe is a novel of Steinbeckian stature neglected by literary connoisseurs. Huxley leads us into the Kikuyu world so that, when the British arrive, they seem as alien as invading Martians. Her descriptive powers rival Steinbeck’s, but her imagery is drawn from the Kikuyu mind. A felled tree “tottered like a drunken elder.”

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