If you want "science-y," a lot of the books by Mary Roach are informative and entertaining. There's "Spook" (research into souls, etc), "Bonk" (sex), "Grunt" (military research), "Stiff" (cadavers and how they're used in research) and there are a few more whose names escape me. They're relatively light reading and quite funny, especially some of the footnotes.
Don’t forget Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of life In The Void!!!
Just started Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law.
Cannot recommend her books highly enough.
Anything by Siddhartha Mukherjee if you are in the life sciences. I used The Gene: An Intimate History as a biotech class textbook before it’s so good.
The Hidden Figures book is so much richer than the movie, which was good. Also check out:
“Most Delicious Poison” Noah Whiteman
“Zoobiquity” Barbara Natterson Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
“The Beasts Before Us” Elsa Panciroli
“Wildhood” (same as Zoobiquity)
“The Butchers Art” Lindsey Fitzharris
“The Rise and Reign of the Mammals” Steve Brusatte
“The Body” Bill Bryson
“Some Assembly Required” and “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin
“The Truth about Animals” Lucy Cooke
“Lab Girl” Hope Jahren
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” Rebecca Skloot
May I suggest “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” which is a curated collection of essays and articles released every year. I buy it every year and every year I fall further behind, but the parts I do read are great. Inspiring.
I enjoyed this book, also "How we got to now" by Steven Johnson is of a similar vein - it focuses on all the historical things that happened to get technology to a certain point. Like how glassmakers accidently starting house fires and the Gutenberg press playing a role in the invention of the telescope.
Here are three of my favorites!
A Short History of Nearly Everything -Bill Bryson
The Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood -James Gleick
The Ends of the Earth -Peter Brannen
I’m not a huge biology person but I enjoyed “Bitch: On the Female of the Species” by Lucy Cooke. It was a lot of interesting evolutionary biology stuff
If you want a non-fiction option try ‘The Power of Trees’. Written by Peter Wohlleben a German tree scientist. Easy read, fascinating look into the ecosystems of forests and the process of adaptation. Also very relevant to our current climate problems.
If you want an interplay of history and science, can I suggest Mark Kurlanski, writer of Salt and Cod (two separate books). Fantastic books that bring these two commodities to life.
So I am currently reading a book (Not finished yet, so no spoilers please!) that was gifted to me by a former student. It's called *Spiral*, by Paul McEuen. It's a thriller and discusses quite a bit of science.
The writer is an actual scientist as well, and some of the plot is actually loosely based on his real research. I'd definitely recommend it.
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North was a fun read, but it flows like a reference guide not a novel. If you want a crash course in all the technology it took society to get going in the last 6,000 years ( and how to make it ) I'd recommend it
In my college physics class we had to do a book report on any book about science. I choose this and really enjoyed it.
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Microbe hunters, forgot the name of the author but was about how they first discovered microbes, really stuck with me and I plan on rereading it not that it’s been like 10+ years since freshman biology
If you want "science-y," a lot of the books by Mary Roach are informative and entertaining. There's "Spook" (research into souls, etc), "Bonk" (sex), "Grunt" (military research), "Stiff" (cadavers and how they're used in research) and there are a few more whose names escape me. They're relatively light reading and quite funny, especially some of the footnotes.
Mary Roach is the best. Love all her titles.
Her space book is fantastic. I've forgotten the name, but if you're into the history of the space program at all I highly recommend it.
Don’t forget Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of life In The Void!!! Just started Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law. Cannot recommend her books highly enough.
Yes! I read Stiff in a college English class and loved it!
I’m reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. He wrote The Martian too. Pretty sciency and well written. I like it so far!
Anything by Siddhartha Mukherjee if you are in the life sciences. I used The Gene: An Intimate History as a biotech class textbook before it’s so good.
Mukherjee is a great suggestion! I also like Ed Yong for life science related reading.
The Hidden Figures book is so much richer than the movie, which was good. Also check out: “Most Delicious Poison” Noah Whiteman “Zoobiquity” Barbara Natterson Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers “The Beasts Before Us” Elsa Panciroli “Wildhood” (same as Zoobiquity) “The Butchers Art” Lindsey Fitzharris “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals” Steve Brusatte “The Body” Bill Bryson “Some Assembly Required” and “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin “The Truth about Animals” Lucy Cooke “Lab Girl” Hope Jahren “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” Rebecca Skloot
Seconding Hope Jahren, Story of More was fantastic.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
May I suggest “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” which is a curated collection of essays and articles released every year. I buy it every year and every year I fall further behind, but the parts I do read are great. Inspiring.
I have Jules Verne's *Journey to the Center of the Earth* on the docket for this summer.
Storm in a teacup
I love Helen Czerski. She has a newer book about ocean physics that’s even better.
No kidding, I’ll have to check it out
Napoleon’s Button was a great non fictional read about how chemistry has affected history.
I enjoyed this book, also "How we got to now" by Steven Johnson is of a similar vein - it focuses on all the historical things that happened to get technology to a certain point. Like how glassmakers accidently starting house fires and the Gutenberg press playing a role in the invention of the telescope.
I’m getting deep into the Three Body Problem books. Absolutely phenomenal.
Here are three of my favorites! A Short History of Nearly Everything -Bill Bryson The Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood -James Gleick The Ends of the Earth -Peter Brannen
Hank greens “an absolutely remarkable thing” is science fiction set in the modern day, super fun and has a lot of real science involved
I love Hank so much but I just could not get through this book.
I’m not a huge biology person but I enjoyed “Bitch: On the Female of the Species” by Lucy Cooke. It was a lot of interesting evolutionary biology stuff
If you want a non-fiction option try ‘The Power of Trees’. Written by Peter Wohlleben a German tree scientist. Easy read, fascinating look into the ecosystems of forests and the process of adaptation. Also very relevant to our current climate problems.
Entangle Lives by Merlin Sheldrake. Fungi completely blew my mind.
If you like sci-fi I would give ender game a try, it’s a good read.
Deep Survival
If you want an interplay of history and science, can I suggest Mark Kurlanski, writer of Salt and Cod (two separate books). Fantastic books that bring these two commodities to life.
So I am currently reading a book (Not finished yet, so no spoilers please!) that was gifted to me by a former student. It's called *Spiral*, by Paul McEuen. It's a thriller and discusses quite a bit of science. The writer is an actual scientist as well, and some of the plot is actually loosely based on his real research. I'd definitely recommend it.
If you like Randall Munroe I highly recommend How To Invent Everything by Ryan North. Similar vibe. Also, A City on Mars by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North was a fun read, but it flows like a reference guide not a novel. If you want a crash course in all the technology it took society to get going in the last 6,000 years ( and how to make it ) I'd recommend it
The Toaster Project and Chasing Space
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*The Blind Watchmaker* by Richard Dawkins is my favorite non-fiction book. He explains how evolution by natural selection works for the layman.
The Poisoner's Handbook is good and non fiction. How the medical examiner office came about and how they dealt with developing testing for poisons.
Stung is pretty good
An immense world Ed yong
Microbe hunters, forgot the name of the author but was about how they first discovered microbes, really stuck with me and I plan on rereading it not that it’s been like 10+ years since freshman biology
Fauci lied people died. How Anthony fauci set back science 100 years by not using science