Biology/Genetics

  • I Contain Multitudes by Ed Long
  • Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden

Science History

  • Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle by G.E.R. Lloyd
  • Greek Science After Aristotle by G.E.R. Lloyd

Logic/Maths/Etc.

  • A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
  • A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World by Daniel Levitin
  • A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy
  • A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
  • Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
  • Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
  • Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cedric Villani
  • Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments by Ronald W. Doerfler
  • Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
  • Göedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • Hello World by Hannah Fry
  • How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
  • How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
  • Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  • Reckoning with Risk by Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur T. Benjam
  • The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
  • The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't by Eugenia Cheng
  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
  • The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
  • The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy

Economics

  • When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt

Medicine/The Body

  • Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • Beneath The Skin by Various Authors
  • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
  • Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
  • Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery by Richard Barnett
  • Delusions of Gender: The Real Science by Cordelia Fine
  • Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  • The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Wisdom of the Body: Discovering the Human Spirit by Sherwin B. Nuland
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Physics

  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
  • The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox
  • The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox
  • Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox

Psychology/The Mind

  • A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine
  • Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
  • An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
  • Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science Two-Volume Set by Margaret A. Boden
  • Quiet by Susan Cain
  • The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
  • The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Misc.

  • Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
  • Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
  • Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed The World by Rachel Ignotofsky
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