Proof: The Science of Booze

Adam Rogers

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Bonnie Tsui

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History

Vanessa Taylor

An Edible History of Humanity

Tom Standage

Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

Stephen S. Hall

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Susan Magsamen

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Dava Sobel

Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

Bill Schutt

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson

Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Edith Widder

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Rose George

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Deborah Blum

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Donnie Eichar

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Steve Brusatte

Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today

Anne Willan

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

Juli Berwald

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Christie Wilcox

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

Deborah Blum

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

Megan Rosenbloom