There are two big problems with the world: too many books, and not enough time to read them. Here is a list of books I'd like to read at some point (it helps me keep track at the bookstore). Bolded books are currently on the shelf but haven't been read, the rest are books I'd like to read at some point.
Architecture and Engineering
- The Great Indoors, Emily Anthes
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
- The Evolution of Useful Things, Henry Petroski
- Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures, Roma Agrawal
- The Works: Anatomy of a City, Kate Ascher
- The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton
- The Existential Pleasure of Engineering, Samuel Florman
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, Edward Glaeser
- Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, JE Gordon
- Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard Kunstler
- A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture, Virginia Savage McAlester
- Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Charles Montgomery
- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition, Don Norman
- To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski
- Walkable City, Jeff Speck
- The Perfectionists, Simon Winchester
Astronomy
- Failure is Not an Option, Gene Kranz
- Death from the Skies, Philip Plait
- Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
- Extreme Cosmos, Bryan Gaensler
- Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction, Kevin Plaxco and Michael Gross
- The History of Human Space Flight, Ted Spitzmiller
Biomechanics
- Exploring Biomechanics, R McNeill Alexander
- Functional Design in Fishes, R McNeill Alexander
- Animal Mechanics, R McNeill Alexander
- Engineering Animals, Alan McFadzean and Mark Denny
- Fish Biomechanics, Robert Shadwick
- Life in Moving Fluids, Steven Vogel
- Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People, Steven Vogel
Chemistry
- On Chemistry, Isaac Asimov
- Caesar's Last Breath, Sam Kean
- Liquid Rules, Mark Miodownik
- Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Atkins
- Physical Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Atkins
- H2O: A Biography of Water, Peter Ball
- A History of Chemistry, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- The Chemical Tree, William Brock
- The Norton History of Chemistry, William Brock
- Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History, Jay Burreson and Penny Le Couteur
- Superheavy, Kit Chapman
- The Joy of Chemistry, Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf
- The Elements, PA Cox
- The Chemical Element, Andrew Ede
- The Elements of Murder, John Emsley
- Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, John Emsley
- The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements, Robert Krebs
Comic Books
- The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, David Hajdu
- American Comics: A History, Jeremy Dauber
- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe
- Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, Jordan Raphael
- Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes, Ben Saunders
- Man of Two Worlds:: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics, Julius Schwartz
Ethics
- Worst Case Bioethics, George Annas
- Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Blackburn
- Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, Tony Hope
- When a Doctor Hates a Patient, Enid Rhodes Peschel and Richard Peschel
- Bedside manners: The troubled history of doctors and patients, Edward Shorter
- The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty, Peter Singer
Evolution
- Intelligent Thought, John Brockman
- Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
- Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
- Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould
- Full House, Stephen Jay Gould
- Dinosaur in a Haystack, Stephen Jay Gould
- The Red Queen, Matt Ridley
- The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, Alice Roberts
- From Fish to Philosopher: The Story of Our Internal Environment, Homer Smith
- Defending Evolution in the Classroom, Brian Alters
- Beginnings: The Story of Origins, Isaac Asimov
- Diseases and Human Evolution, Ethne Barnes
- Darwinian Myths, Edward Caudill
- Science on Trial, Douglas Futuyma
- The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not, Abby Hafer
- Abusing Science, Philip Kitcher
- Life Ascending, Nick Lane
- Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, Nathan Lents
- Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, Donald R. Prothero
- Weird Life, David Toomey
Feminism
- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo
- When Abortion was a Crime, Leslie Reagan
- Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, Kristen R. Ghodsee
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall
Fiction
- The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Mike Ashley
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
- The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz
- Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
- Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
- It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
- Damned, Chuck Palahniuk
- In the Beginning, Chaim Potok
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- Gimple the Fool, Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett
- Cannery Row, Jon Steinbeck
- The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain
- Exodus, Leon Uris
- Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Herzog, Saul Bellow
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
- The Pagan Rabbi, Cynthia Ozick
- Portnoy's Compliant, Philip Roth
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Food
- The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
- The 24-Hour Wine Expert, Jancis Robinson
- Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman
- Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky
- Uncommon Grounds: The History Of Coffee And How It Transformed Our World, Mark Pendergrast
- Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson
Geology and Geography
- 101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See, Albert Dickas
- Subpar Parks, Amber Share
- The Geologic Story of the Great Plains, Donald Trimble
- Paleontology: An Illustrated History, David Bainbridge
- Photographing California Vol. 1: North, Gary Crabbe
- 101 Fossil Sites You've Gotta See, Albert Dickas
- Face of North America: The Natural History of a Continent, Peter Farb
- Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey Through America's National Parks, QT Luong
- California's Amazing Geology, Donald Prothero
- The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them, Donald R. Prothero
- Photographing California Vol. 2: South, Jeffrey Sullivan
History (USA)
- A Queer History of the United States, Michael Bronski
- Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky
- Failed States, Noam Chomsky
- The Gulf, Jack E. Davis
- Not a Nation of Immigrants, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- End of the Myth, Greg Grandin
- Blowback, Chalmers Johnson
- These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone
- Transgender History, Susan Stryker
- The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
- The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Fierce Urgency of Now, Julian E. Zelizer
- A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry
- Killing Hope: Us Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, William Blum
- Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower, William Blum
- Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches, Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Empire's Workshop, Greg Grandin
- Dallas: The Making of a Modern City, Patricia Evridge Hill
- American Empire, A.G. Hopkins
- Operation Paperclip, Annie Jacobsen
- The Pentagon's Brain, Annie Jacobsen
- Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer
- The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World, Dan Kovalik
- No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests, Dan Kovalik
- The Making of Asian America: A History, Erika Lee
- A Disability History of the United States, Kim E. Nielsen
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
- Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, Vijay Prashad
- Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz
- A True History of the United States, Daniel Sjursen
- Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, David Vine
- United States of War, David Vine
- Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr, Michael Vinson Williams
History (Middle East)
- From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe
- Doomed to Succeed: The US/Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, Dennis Ross
- My Promised Land, Ari Shavit
- Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, Daniel Gordis
- A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
- Simon Wiesenthal, Tom Segev
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Avi Shlaim
- Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth, Noa Tishby
- Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, Dov Waxman
History (World)
- In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Harari
- The Nazi Hunters, Andrew Nagorski
- Southeast Asia’s Cold War: An Interpretive History, Cheng Guan Ang
- Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015: Global Connections and Comparisons, C A Bayly
- The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins
- Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan, Michael Booth
- The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth
- Modern South Asia, Sugata Bose
- A Concise History of the Caribbean, B. W. Higman
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Toni Judt
- China: A History, John Keay
- India: A History, John Keay
- The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, Yasmin Khan
- A History of India, Hermann Kulke
- If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
- A History of Japan, Mason and Caiger
- The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor, Martin Meredith
- Southeast Asia: An Introductory History, Milton Osbourne
- The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, Vijay Prashad
- The Poorer Nations, Vijay Prashad ,
- Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia, Michael Vatikiotis
- White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, Susan Williams
- 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, Anam Zakaria
Humor
- Without Feathers + Getting Even + Side Effects, Woody Allen
- Dave Barry's Guide to Life, Dave Barry
- Let Me Off At The Top!, Ron Burgundy
- Last Words, George Carlin
- The Essential Lenny Bruce, John Cohen
- America Again, Stephen Colbert
- Oy! The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes, David Minkoff
- The Official MD Handbook, Anne Eva Ricks
- Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon, Zack Parsons
- Y'all Need this Book: The definitive guide to being a Texan, Jay Sauceda
Judaism
- Can It Happen Again?, Roselle Chartock and Jack Spencer
- Jews, God, and History, Max Dimont
- Does the World Need the Jews, Daniel Gordis
- Genius and Anxiety, Norman Lebrecht
- Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History, Joseph Telushkin
- Antisemitism in America, Leonard Dinnerstein
- Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, Freeman
- Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Saul Friedlander
- A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, Phyllis Goldstein
- A History of Judaism, Martin Goodman
- A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson
- Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg
- Why the Jews: The Reason for Antisemitism, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
- Radical Then, Radical Now, Jonathan Sacks
- The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning, Jonathan Sacks
- American Judaism: A History, Jonathan Sarna
- How to Fight Antisemitism, Bari Weiss
- A Provocative People: A Secular History of the Jews, Sherwin Wine
- Judaism Beyond God, Sherwin Wine
Linguistics
- The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
- On Language, Noam Chomsky
Marine Biology
- The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
- The Living Sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- The Rise of Fishes, John Long
- Discovering Fossil Fishes, John Maisey
- Emperors of the Deep, William McKeever
- The Brilliant Abyss, Helen Scales
- The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life, Andrew Campbell and Keith Edward Banister
- Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- The Search for the Giant Squid, Richard Ellis
- Oceans of Kansas, Michael Everhart
- Dangerous Marine Animals, Bruce Halstead
- Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, Robert Kunzig
- Poisonous, Venomous, and Electric Marine Organisms of the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, Matthew Landau
- Fish: An Enthusiast's Guide, PB Moyle
- Fishes of the Open Ocean, Julian Pepperell
- The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea, Callum Roberts
- Learning from the Octopus, Rafe Sagarin
- Spark from the Deep, William Turkel
- Sealife: A Complete Guide to the Marine Environment, Geoffrey Waller, Marc Dando, and Michael Burchett
- Kraken, Wendy Williams
- Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate, James Wood, Jennifer Mather, and Roland Anderson
Medicine
- A Short History of Medicine, Erwin Ackerknecht
- The Human Body, Isaac Asimov
- Unnatural Death, Michael Baden
- Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine, R Barker Bausell
- Science for Life: A manual for better living, Brian Clegg
- Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Doctors and Distillers, Camper English
- Extreme Medicine, Kevin Fong
- Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar (and other oddball or gross maladies, afflictions, remedies, and cures), David Haviland
- The Icepick Surgeon, Sam Kean
- Poisons, Peter Macinnis
- Dead Men Do Tell Tales, William Maples
- The Mysteries Within, Sherwin Nuland
- Bad Faith: When religious belief undermines modern medicine, Paul Offit
- The Medical Detectives, Berton Roueche
- The Cost of Cutting, Paul Ruggieri
- Confessions of a Surgeon, Paul Ruggieri
- Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
- Finally, I'm a Doctor, Neil Shulman
- Bad Medicine, Christopher Wanjek
- Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival, Frances Ashcroft
- The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body, Frances Ashcroft
- Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain, David Bainbridge
- Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus, Naomi Baumslag
- Why Aren't We Dead Yet?: the survivor's guide to the immune system, Idan Ben-Barak
- Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages, Nathan Belofsky
- Xeno: The promise of transplanting animal organs into humans, DKC Cooper
- Anomalies and curiousities of medicine, George Gould and Walter Pyle
- If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body, James Hamblin
- Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions, Richard Harris
- Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery, Richard Hollingham
- The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton
- Happy Accidents, Morton Meyers
- Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, Jonathan D. Moreno
- The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Uncertain Art - Thoughts on a Life in Medicine, Sherwin Nuland
- The Soul of Medicine - Tales from the Bedside, Sherwin Nuland
- Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs, David Nutt
- Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases, Paul A. Offit M.D.
- Corpse: Nature, forensics, and the struggle to pinpoint the time of death, Jessica Snyder Sachs
- A Brief History of Bad Medicine, Ian Schott
- And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts
- The Undead, Dick Teresi
- Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations, Arnold van de Laar
- How We Live & Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells, Lewis Wolpert
Microbiology
- Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antitbiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, Martin Blaser
- A Field Guide to Bacteria, Betsey Dexter Dyer
- Deadly Feasts, Richard Rhodes
- Bacteria: A Very Short Introduction, Sebastian G.B. Amyes
- Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction, Benjamin Bolker
- The Art of Being a Parasite, Claude Combes
- People, Parasites, and Plowshares, Dickson Despommier
- Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests, Rosemary Drisdelle
- The Wild Life of Our Bodies, Rob Dunn
- Evolution of Infectious Disease, Paul Ewald
- Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions: A compendium of unpleasant infections, David Grove
Music
- When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick Wall
Nature
- Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature, Janine Benyus
- Every Living Thing, Robb Dunn
- Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service, Heather Hansen
- Rattlesnake Under His Hat, Sam Hurst
- Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy, Melissa Milgrom
- Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins, One R. Pagan
- Fuzz, Mary Roach
- Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
- Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone
- National Parks: The American Experience, Alfred Runte
Philosophy
- Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
- Existentialism for Beginners, David Cogswell and Joe Lee
- Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas Flynn
- Existentialism: from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Walter Kaufmann
- An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, Roger Scruton
- Philosophy for Life, Mel Thompson
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- Causing Death and Saving Lives: The Moral Problems of Abortion, Infanticide, Suicide, Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, War, and Other Life-or-Death Choices, Jonathan Glover
- Logic: A Very Short Introduction, Graham Priest
- The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
Philosophy of Science
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Rudolf Carnap
- Science and Common Sense, James Conant
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
- Popper Selections, Karl Popper and David Miller
- Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Baruch Brody and Richard Grady
- Conjectures and Refutations, Karl Popper
Physics + Math
- Through Two Doors at Once, Anil Ananthaswamy
- The Man of Numbers, Keith Devlin
- Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
- Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh
- Ten Patterns that Explain the Universe, Brian Clegg
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking
- The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios
Psychology
- Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
- Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown
- Atomic Habits, James Clear
- The Sociology Book, DK Publishing
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Meditation and Mindfulness, Andy Puddicombe
- On Killing, Dave Grossman
- Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith
- Whistling Vivaldi: and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, Claude Steele
- The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil, Philip Zimbardo
Racism
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- Time to Teach, Julian Bonds
- Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Elizabeth Hinton
- America on Fire, Elizabeth Hinton
- Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo
- To Protect and Serve, Norm Stamper
- Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia Abu-Jamal
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, Moustafa Bayoumi
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
- Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White AmericaTears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Eric Michael Dyson
- The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
- Speaking of Race, Celeste Headlee
- Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, Ruth King
- White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, Michael Phillips
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla Saad
- America's Original Sin, Jim Wallis
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
- Paved A Way: Infrastructure, Policy and Racism in an American City, Collin Yarbrough
Science Fiction
- The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
- Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
- I Sing the Body Electric!, Ray Bradbury
- The October Country, Ray Bradbury
- The Machineries of Joy, Ray Bradbury
- The Penultimate Trush, Philip K Dick
- Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K Dick
- Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman
- Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Joe Hill
- The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012, Rich Horton
- The Black Cloud, Fred Hoyle
- Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, HP Lovecraft
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Monstrous, edited by Ryan Thomas
- The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors
- Fantastic Voyages: Learning Science Through Science Fiction, Judith Boss
- The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
- Second Variety and Other Classic Stories, Phillip K. Dick
- We Can Remember It for you Wholesale and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
- Paycheck and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
Science History
- The Science Book, DK Publishing
- The Mad Science Book, Reto Schneider
- Great Scientific Discoveries
- The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg, Robert Crease
- Drunken Goldfish and Other Irrelevant Scientific Research, William Roland Hartston
Science Writing
- This Explains Everything, John Brockman
- Disturbing the Universe, Freeman Dyson
- Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist, Richard Feynman
- The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God, Kitty Ferguson
- The Night is Large, Martin Gardner
- The Sacred Beetle, Martin Gardner
- The Dancing Universe: From creation myths to the big bang, Marcelo Gleiser
- Advice to a Young Scientist, Peter Medawar
- The Limits of Science, Peter Medawar
- The Universe Within, Neil Shubin
- The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas
- The Fragile Species, Lewis Thomas
- A Long Line of Cells, Lewis Thomas
- Late Night Thoughts Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Lewis Thomas
- A Passion for Science, Lewis Wolpert
- On the Beauty of Science, Herbert Hauptman
- Physics and Philosophy, Werner Heisenberg
- Blood Evidence: How DNA is Revolutionizing the Way We Solve Crimes, Henry Lee
- Right Hand Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms, and Cultures, Chris McManus
- Memoir of a Thinking Radish, Peter Medawar
- The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice, Peter Medawar
- It's Not Rocket Science, Ben Miller
- I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity, Max Perutz
- Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Mary Roach
- The Unnatural Nature of Science: Why Science Does Not Make (Common) Sense, Lewis Wolpert
Sex
- God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Tom Hickman
- Sex on Earth, Jules Howard
- Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Olivia Judson
- The Evolution of Desire, David Buss
- Sex: A Natural History: Joann Rodgers
Skepticism
- Science Under Siege, Kendrick Frazier
- Bullshit, John Grant
- Believing Bullshit, Stephen Law
- Voodoo Science, Robert Park
- Why Aren't They Here?, Surendra Verma
- Scientific Paranormal Investigation, Benjamin Radford
- Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and its Astonishing Implications for our Future, Jeffrey Bennett
- Conspiracies Declassified: The Skeptoid Guide to the Truth Behind the Theories, Brian Dunning
- The Hundreth Monkey and other Paradigms of the Paranormal, Kendrick Frazier
- How We Know What Isn't So, Thomas Gilovch
- Denying Science, John Grant
- Denying Holocaust, Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter
- Tracking the Man Beasts, Joe Nickell
- Unintelligent Design, Mark Perakh
- How to Think About Weird Things, Theodore Schick
- Unpersuadables, Will Storr