Science books from several disciplines, because it never does to only know about one thing.
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last updated February, 2026
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
Kris Newby
The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
D.K. Publishing
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Bruce Bagemihl
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Amy Webb
Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?: And 317 Other Everyday Mysteries of Science
Robert Matthews
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Thor Hanson
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
Kenneth L. Feder
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
Jessica Hernandez
Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Solutions for Climate Displacement
Jessica Hernandez Ph.D.
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
Sam Kean
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
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
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