Science books from several disciplines, because it never does to only know about one thing.
created by Eusebia
last updated February, 2026
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
John Pickrell
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Lee Berger
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
Marcus Chown
The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe
Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System
Michael Summers
The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory
Kenneth L. Feder
We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker
A Field Guide to Radiation
Wayne Biddle
The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
Ersilia Vaudo
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
Adrian Raine
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Joseph Osmundson
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Thomas Hertog
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett
The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting (Truman Talley)
Berton Roueché
All That Remains: A Life in Death
Sue Black
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Clea Koff
What the Corpse Revealed
Hugh Miller
The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
Colin Evans
The Little Book of Pandemics
Peter Moore
Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Jon Palfreman
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
Stephen Westaby
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Sarah E. Hill
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
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