Adult Book Lists: Science! Popular Nonfiction on the Natural Sciences
[Printable book list]
Physics and Astronomy
Carl Sagan / 520 SAGAN
Cosmos (audiobook)
Brian Greene / 523.1 GREENE
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (audiobook and DVD)
Neil deGrasse Tyson / 523.01 TYSON
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (audiobook and ebook)
Sean Carroll / 576.83 CARROLL
The Big Picture: on the Origin of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (ebook)
Bill Bryson / 500 BRYSON
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Anil Ananthaswamy / 530 ANANTHUS
The Edge of Physics: a Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Leon M. Lederman / 539.72 LEDERMAN
Beyond the God Particle
Biology
Frans De Waal / 591.513 WAAL
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Richard Dawkins / 576.8 DAWKINS
The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution (audiobook)
Neil Shubin / 611 SHUBIN
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body (DVD)
Jennifer Ackerman / 598 ACKERMAN
The Genius of Birds
Ed Yong / 579.17 YONG
I Contain Multitudes: the Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (ebook)
Susan Casey / 599.53 CASEY
Voices in the Ocean: a Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins (ebook)
Elizabeth Kolbert / 576.84 KOLBERT
The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History (audiobook)
Psychology and Medicine
Michael S. Gazzaniga / 612.8233 GAZZANIG
Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Siddhartha Mukherjee / 616.42 MUKHERJE
The Gene (audiobook and ebook)
The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer (large print, audiobook, ebook, and DVD)
Michael Lewis / 612.8233 LEWIS
The Undoing Project: a Friendship That Changed Our Minds (large print, audiobook, and ebook)
Norman Doidge / 612.8 DOIDGE
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
Deborah Blum / 614.1309747 BLUM
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (DVD)
David Quammen / 614.43 QUAMMEN
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Geology and Meteorology
Cynthia Barnett / 551.577 BARNETT
Rain: a Natural and Cultural History (ebook)
Kim Cross / 363.34923 CROSS
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
Robert Hazen / 550 HAZEN
The Story of Earth: the First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet
Maria Bjornurud / 551.7 BJORNERU
Reading the Rocks: the Autobiography of the Earth
Erik Larson / 976.4139 LARSON
Isaac's Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (large print and ebook)
Simon Winchester / 551.21 WINCHEST
Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Richard A. Fortey / 551.7 FORTEY
Earth: an Intimate History
Chemistry
Sam Kean / 546 KEAN
The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (audiobook)
Mark Miodownik / 620.11 MIODOWNI
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
John Emsley / 546 EMSELY
Nature's Building Blocks: an A-Z Guide to the Elements
Penny Le Couteur / 540.9 LECOUTEU
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History