Far better than I initially thought it was going to be.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Granta 102: The New Nature Writing
More environments than nature writing, really—but still great stuff.
Granta 101: One Hundred and One
A return to form for the relaunched Granta.
Granta 100: One Hundred
Extra thick edition, celebrity guest editor, Hockney cover, big name authors: this must be the 100th edition!
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The maestro's magnum opus.
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
The late, great science writer's final book—about baseball.
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Gould's last science book. It goes on a bit, but the chapter criticising Edward O Wilson's misappropriation of the term Consilience is Gould at his best.
The Mismeasure of Man
Why intelligence testing is stupid.
Spies
Short novel about how children misunderstand the adult world.
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays
Dawkins demonstrating that he can write wonderfully sensitively, as well as rant.