15 science books that everyone can enjoy
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: August 29, 2017 3:07 PM | Last Updated: August 29, 2017
Quirks & Quarks is 40 years old! To celebrate, host Bob McDonald and the Quirks & Quarks team put together an awesomely scientific (and scientifically awesome) reading list for us. Here are 15 books about science that everyone can enjoy, from the Luddite to the lab rat.
- A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
- Wonderful Life or The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- E=mc2 by David Bodanis
- Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Double Helix by James Watson
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
- Gaia by James Lovelock
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
- The 6th Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Seasick by Alanna Mitchell