Book	Author	Read?
The Selfish Gene	Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker	Richard Dawkins
Living Within Limits	Garrett Hardin
The Language Instinct	Steven Pinker
Secrets of Mental Math	Arthur Benjamin
Cosmos	Carl Sagan
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking
Ice Age	John & Mary Gribbin
Deep Simplicity	John Gribbin
A Matter of Degrees	Gino Segre
Genome: Autobiography of a Species	Matt Ridley
The Rational Optimist	Matt Ridley
Three Scientists and Their Gods	Robert Wright
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters	Charles Darwin
The Character of Physical Law and The Meaning of it All	Richard Feynman
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman	James Gleick
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman	Richard Feynman
The Emperor of All Maladies	Siddhartha Mukherjee
For the Love of Physics	Walter Lewin
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences	John Allen Paulos
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking	Jordan Ellenberg
The Signal and the Noise	Nate Silver
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field	Nancy Forbes
The Sixth Extinction	Elizabeth Kolbert
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla	Marc Seifer