When Christopher Hitchens got the Dawkins Award in Houston, was asked a variety of questions from the audience.
None appeared to elicit more interest than the one asked by eight-year-old Mason Crumpacker, who wanted to know what books she should read.
Hitchens’ quick list of recommended books and authors:
Dawkins’ Magic of Reality, Greek Myths, particularly those compiled by Robert Graves, anything satirical, all of Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (author of Infidel and Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations), PG Wodehouse (“for fun”), David Hume, and Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
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