Science Writing books
Here are 48 books with a lot of science writing, starting with The Origin of Species, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus.
The Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola VirusRichard Preston
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate TheoryBrian Greene
The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingRichard Dawkins
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011Mary Roach
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human RaceWalter Isaacson
CosmosCarl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the DarkCarl Sagan, Ann Druyan
StiffMary Roach
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical TalesOliver Sacks
The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious CharacterRichard Feynman
Einstein: His Life and UniverseWalter Isaacson
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical QuestionsRandall Munroe
The Grand DesignStephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeDava Sobel
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New YorkDeborah Blum
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of EvolutionRichard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really TrueRichard Dawkins
The Ascent of ManJacob Bronowski
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused ItGina Kolata
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryFlorence Williams
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology WatcherLewis Thomas
What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at NightJohn Brockman
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural HistoryStephen Jay Gould
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone WrongPaul A. Offit
The Future Is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's TechnologiesBob McDonald
ScienceJohn Michels (Journalist)
Journal of ResearchesCharles Darwin
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?Kelly Weinersmith
Quantum SupremacyMichio Kaku
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100Michio Kaku
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of RealityBrian Greene
Chaos: Making a New ScienceJames Gleick
A World Appears: A Journey Into ConsciousnessMichael Pollan
From Eternity to HereSean Carroll
The Island of the ColorblindOliver Sacks
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global WarmingNaomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Periodic TalesHugh Aldersey-Williams
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural HistoryStephen Jay Gould
Toms River: A Story of Science and SalvationDan Fagin
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsJohn Derbyshire
Cooked: A Natural History of TransformationMichael Pollan
Why Evolution is TrueJerry A. Coyne
HyperspaceMichio Kaku
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant TeacherRichard Feynman
RelativityAlbert Einstein