Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author that is best known for emphasizing the gene as the being at the core of evolution. He has also generated much controversy with his unparalleled advocacy of atheism. Dawkins was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1941 and spent much of his early childhood in Kenya, where his father was working during the Second World War.

The best place to start is the Oxford Landmark Science series, the earliest of Richard Dawkins's multi-book series: it opens with Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979) and runs to 19 books across 1979–2021, ending with Viruses (2021). Richard Dawkins's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Richard Dawkins has 65 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1979 and 2024. 33 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Oxford Landmark Science series with 19 books — and 32 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Richard Dawkins's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Oxford Landmark Science (1979–2021, 19 books) and The Science Masters (1995–2014, 14 books).

This guide splits Richard Dawkins's 65 books into 2 named series and 32 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Oxford Landmark Science (19 books, 1979–2021); The Science Masters (14 books, 1995–2014).