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, Art, and Engineering
- The Great Indoors, Emily Anthes
- At Home, Bill Bryson
- The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton
- Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
- To Engineer Is Human, Henry Petroski
- Walkable City, Jeff Speck
- Built, Roma Agrawal
- The Works: Anatomy of a City, Kate Ascher
- Raw Concrete, Barnabas Calder
- Architecture, Barnabas Calder
- The Existential Pleasure of Engineering, Samuel Florman
- What are you Looking At, Will Gompertz
- Structures, JE Gordon
- Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg
- The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
- A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture, Virginia Savage McAlester
- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition, Don Norman
- 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
- 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
- Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
- When Abortion was a Crime, Leslie Reagan
- Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, Kristen R. Ghodsee
- Reproductive Justice, Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger
Fiction
- The Graif Fair, Sholom Aleichem
- Some Laughter, Some Tears, Sholom Aleichem
- The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Mike Ashley
- To Jerusalem and Back, Saul Bellow
- The Dean's Chamber, Saul Bellow
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
- Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
- It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
- In the Beginning, Chaim Potok
- The Book of Lights, Chaim Potok
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Spinoza of Market Street, 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
- The Hope, Herman Wouk
- Herzog, Saul Bellow
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
- The Pagan Rabbi, Cynthia Ozick
- Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
- 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
- Raising the Bar, Brett Adams and Jacob Grier
- Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman
- Strong Sweet and Bitter, Cara Devine
- 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
- I'm A Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
- Made in America, Bill Bryson
- Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower, William Blum
- Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky
- Failed States, Noam Chomsky
- Evicted, Matthew Desmond
- Not a Nation of Immigrants, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Our America, Felipe Fernandez-Aermesto
- End of the Myth, Greg Grandin
- No More Lies, Dick Gregory
- Blowback, Chalmers Johnson
- Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer
- These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore
- Sundown Towns, James Loewen
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- A True History of the United States, Daniel Sjursen
- The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone
- Transgender History, Susan Stryker
- A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki
- The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
- The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
- A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry
- Killing Hope, William Blum
- Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
- Evicted, Matthew Desmond
- Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, 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
- The Plot to Control the World, Dan Kovalik
- No More War, Dan Kovalik
- The Making of Asian America, Erika Lee
- A Disability History of the United States, Kim E. Nielsen
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
- A Problem from Hell, Samantha Power
- Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad
- Dirty Work, Eyal Press
- Beneath the United States, Lars Schoultz
- Base Nation, 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, Rashid Khalidi
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe
- Doomed to Succeed, Dennis Ross
- My Promised Land, Ari Shavit
- Can We Talk About Israel, Daniel Sokatch
- Trouble in the Tribe, Dov Waxman
- The Prime Ministers, Yehudah Avner
- Scars of War, Wounds of Peace, Shlomo Ben-Ami
- Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
- Israel, Martin Gilbert
- The Arc of a Covenant, Walter Russell Mead
- Israel's Secret Wars, Benny Morris
- Power, Faith, and Fantasy, Michael Oren
- Six Days of War, Michael Oren
- A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
- Simon Wiesenthal, Tom Segev
- 1967, Tom Segev
- Israel, Anita Shapira
- The Cold War and The Middle East, Avi Shlaim
- The Iron Wall, Avi Shlaim
- Our Exodus, MM Silver
- Israelophobia, Jake Wallis Simons
- War of Return, Einat Wilf
- Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewry, Zion Zohar
History (World)
- In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
- Unfinished Empire, John Darwin
- Africa is Not a Country, Dipo Faloyin
- An Insider's Guide to the UN, Linda Fasulo
- Sapiens, Yuval Harari
- A History of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr
- Island People, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Postwar, Toni Judt
- The Nazi Hunters, Andrew Nagorski
- The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad
- White Malice, Susan Williams
- Land, Simon Winchester
- Southeast Asia’s Cold War, Cheng Guan Ang
- Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015, C A Bayly
- The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins
- Three Tigers, One Mountain, Michael Booth
- The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth
- Modern South Asia, Sugata Bose
- Insurgent Empire, Priyamvada Gopal
- A Concise History of the Caribbean, B. W. Higman
- China, John Keay
- India, John Keay
- The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan
- A History of India, Hermann Kulke
- All the Countries We've Ever Invaded, Stuart Laycock
- If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
- A History of Japan, Mason and Caiger
- The Fortunes of Africa, Martin Meredith
- Southeast Asia, Milton Osbourne
- The Poorer Nations, Vijay Prashad
- Blood and Silk, Michael Vatikiotis
- Sealand, Dylan Taylor-Lennan
- Brilliant Maps, Ian Wright
- 1971, 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
Judaism
- Constantine's Sword, James Carroll
- Can It Happen Again?, Roselle Chartock and Jack Spencer
- Jews, God, and History, Max Dimont
- The Jews in America, Max Dimont
- Does the World Need the Jews, Daniel Gordis
- Why the Jews, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
- Jewish Literacy, Joseph Telushkin
- Jewish Comedy, Jeremy Dauber
- Antisemitism in America, Leonard Dinnerstein
- A Contract with God, Will Eisner
- Jewish Pride, Ben Freeman
- Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Saul Friedlander
- A History of Judaism, Martin Goodman
- The Wondering Jew, Micah Goodman
- A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson
- Let There Be Laughter, Michael Krasny
- Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg
- Ally, Michael Oren
- Radical Then, Radical Now, Jonathan Sacks
- The Great Partnership, Jonathan Sacks
- American Judaism, Jonathan Sarna
- The Seventh Million, Tom Segev
- A Provocative People, 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
- The Book of Eels, Patrik Svensson
- The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life, Andrew Campbell and Keith Edward Banister
- The Underworld, Susan Casey
- Octopus and Squid, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- The Search for the Giant Squid, Richard Ellis
- Oceans of Kansas, Michael Everhart
- Dangerous Marine Animals, Bruce Halstead
- Mapping the Deep, Robert Kunzig
- Poisonous, Venomous, and Electric Marine Organisms of the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, Matthew Landau
- Fish, PB Moyle
- Fishes of the Open Ocean, Julian Pepperell
- The Ocean of Life, Callum Roberts
- Learning from the Octopus, Rafe Sagarin
- The Ocean in 80 Fish, Helen Scales
- Spark from the Deep, William Turkel
- Sealife, Geoffrey Waller, Marc Dando, and Michael Burchett
- Kraken, Wendy Williams
- Octopus, 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, R Barker Bausell
- Science for Life, 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, David Haviland
- Dead Men Do Tell Tales, William Maples
- The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Mysteries Within, Sherwin Nuland
- Bad Faith, 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
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Paul Starr
- Bad Medicine, Christopher Wanjek
- Life at the Extremes, Frances Ashcroft
- The Spark of Life, Frances Ashcroft
- Beyond the Zonules of Zinn, David Bainbridge
- Murderous Medicine, Naomi Baumslag
- Why Aren't We Dead Yet?, Idan Ben-Barak
- Strange Medicine, Nathan Belofsky
- Xeno, DKC Cooper
- Anomalies and curiousities of medicine, George Gould and Walter Pyle
- If Our Bodies Could Talk, James Hamblin
- Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris
- Blood and Guts, Richard Hollingham
- The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton
- Happy Accidents, Morton Meyers
- Undue Risk, Jonathan D. Moreno
- The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Uncertain Art, Sherwin Nuland
- The Soul of Medicine, Sherwin Nuland
- Drugs Without the Hot Air, David Nutt
- Vaccinated, Paul A. Offit M.D.
- Corpse, 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, Arnold van de Laar
- How We Live & Why We Die, 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
- Patient Zero, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
- Deadly Feasts, Richard Rhodes
- Bacteria, 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, Rosemary Drisdelle
- The Wild Life of Our Bodies, Rob Dunn
- Evolution of Infectious Disease, Paul Ewald
- Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions, David Grove
Music
- A Field Guide to Post-Punk and New Wave, Steve Wide
- When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick Wall
Nature
- Biomimicry, Janine Benyus
- Every Living Thing, Robb Dunn
- Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears, Heather Hansen
- Rattlesnake Under His Hat, Sam Hurst
- Still Life, Melissa Milgrom
- Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins, One R. Pagan
- Fuzz, Mary Roach
- The Intersectional Environmentalist, Leah Thomas
- Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone
- National Parks, 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, 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
- Humble Pi, Matt Parker
- Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh
- Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart
- Ten Patterns that Explain the Universe, Brian Clegg
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking
- The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios
- Mathematics of Life, Ian Stewart
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
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Eric Michael Dyson
- Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
- The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Elizabeth Hinton
- America on Fire, Elizabeth Hinton
- Read This to Get Smarter, Blair Imani
- Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl
- Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
- 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
- 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
- America's Original Sin, Jim Wallis
- 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
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
- Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, HP Lovecraft
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley RObinson
- 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
- A Brief History of Time Keeping, Chad Orzel
- 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
- Horizons, James Poskett
- Beyond Measure, James Vincent
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
- 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
- A Curious History of Sex, Kate Lister
- The Evolution of Desire, David Buss
- Sex: A Natural History: Joann Rodgers
Skepticism
- Science Under Siege, Kendrick Frazier
- Bullshit, John Grant
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter
- Believing Bullshit, Stephen Law
- Voodoo Science, Robert Park
- Why Aren't They Here?, Surendra Verma
- Scientific Paranormal Investigation, Benjamin Radford
- Beyond UFOs, Jeffrey Bennett
- Conspiracies Declassified, 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
- Tracking the Man Beasts, Joe Nickell
- Unintelligent Design, Mark Perakh
- How to Think About Weird Things, Theodore Schick
- Unpersuadables, Will Storr
Urology and the Pelvis
- A Woman's Guide to Her Pelvic Floor, Jennifer Anger + Karyn Eilber + Victoria Scott
- Vagina Obscura, Rachel Gross
- It's Not Hysteria, Karen Tang
- A Headache in the Pelvis, David Wise and Rodney Anderson