Literatures of Science

Thirty Books for Great Reading

• Angela Barrett, Ship Fever
• Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
• Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens
• Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
• Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor’s Tale
• Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk
• Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape
• Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe
• M.F.K. Fisher, Consider the Oyster
• Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation
• John Hay, Bird of Light
• Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt
• Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter
• Barbara Hurd, Entering the Stone
• Evelyn Fox Keller, The Century of the Gene
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss
• Primo Levi, Periodic Table
• Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
• Peter Matthiessen, Far Tortuga
• John McPhee, The Survival of the Bark Canoe
• Gary Paul Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain
• David Quammen, Song of the Dodo
• Stephen Pinker, The Blank Slate
• Matt Ridley, Genome
• David Rothenberg, Why Birds Sing
• Gustaf Sobin, Luminous Debris
• Sandra Steingraber, Having Faith
• Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
• Frank Waters, The Book of Hopi
• Edward O. Wilson, Naturalist

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