Books by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley
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	Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley 4.06 avg rating — 28,488 ratings — published 1999 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Kaleo Griffith (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Ray Porter (Narrator), Samin Nosrat (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 18,124 ratings — published 2017 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley 4.05 avg rating — 17,455 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 3.97 avg rating — 13,812 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley 4.06 avg rating — 4,268 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley 4.03 avg rating — 4,225 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley 4.11 avg rating — 3,609 ratings — published 2020 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley 3.92 avg rating — 3,532 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19 by Alina Chan, Matt Ridley 4.23 avg rating — 1,609 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates (The Munk Debates, 2015) by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author), Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author), Malcolm Gladwell 3.34 avg rating — 1,744 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bourgeois Dignity (Cato Unbound Book 102010) by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Gregory Clark, Matt Ridley, Jonathan Feinstein 4.13 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley 3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea – Evolutionary Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Mystery of Attraction by Matt Ridley 3.93 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Climate Change: The Facts 2017 by Anthony Watts, Matt Ridley, Bjørn Lomborg, Clive James 4.10 avg rating — 143 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year the World Went Mad: A Scientific Memoir from the Pandemic by Mark Woolhouse, Matt Ridley (Foreword) 3.65 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science Writing 2002 by Matt Ridley (Editor), Jesse Cohen (Series Editor), Alan Lightman (Goodreads Author), Joseph D'Agnese (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future of Disease: Predictions by Matt Ridley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superconductors: The Breakthrough by Robert M. Hazen, Matt Ridley 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World? by Matt Ridley, Stephen Davies 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down to Earth II by Matt Ridley 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems by Matt Ridley 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warts and All: The Men Who Would Be Bush by Matt Ridley 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tutti gli errori di Piketty: Saggi su Il capitale nel XXI secolo by Geoffrey E. Wood (Editor), Martin Feldstein (Contributor), Matt Ridley (Contributor), Antonio Foglia (Contributor) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schluss mit der Klimakrise : Problemlösung statt Katastrophenbeschwörung (Novo ;; Band 131) by Thilo Spahl (Editor), Ted Nordhaus, Bjørn Lomborg, Michael Shellenberger 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2-book Set By Matt Ridley; Genome, the Agile Gene by Matt Ridley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rational Pessimist by Matt Ridley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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