Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Carl Sagan

The Secrets of our DNA: How Genetics has Changed the World

Turi King

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

Val McDermid

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (1) (Politics of Place)

Tim Marshall

Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal about Our World--And Ourselves

Matt Simon

Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

Riley Black (Brian Switek)

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

David M. Peña-Guzmán

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Deborah Blum

Ferns: Lessons in Survival From Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants

Fay-Wei Li

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Katie Mack

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Mary Roach

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

Ryan North

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang

The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present

Steve Brusatte

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Irene Vallejo

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

Cosmos

Carl Sagan