Science Book Chat discussion

What are your favourite science books? Have you ever read one more than once? Any favourite authors?

I'm still thinking about my own favourites...

I really liked Fermat's Enigma, too. Recently, I read Stephen Hawkins A Short History of Time, which I enjoyed a lot.

These are a few of my favourite science books (think I might have gone overboard):

Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

Great list! The Papyrus book sounds really interesting. May have to add that to my ever-growing "to read" list.

Tap tap...is this thing on? I've turned on notifications so I can keep up.

I love John McPhee's books about geology: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Assembling California, etc. (Next time I'll figure out the best way to insert links!)