People Behind the Science Podcast

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Resources

During our People Behind the Science interviews, we ask each scientist to recommend reading material to our audience. Here is a complete list of recommended reading from our esteemed guests.

  • Ann Dillner: Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
  • Gammon Earhart: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
  • Josh Reece: The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebeccah Skloot
  • Kerriann Greenhalgh: Any book by Patricia Cornwell or James Patterson
  • Erik Herzog: The Living World by Jaques Cousteau, Longitude by Dava Sobel
  • Jeff Bradshaw: Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey Lockwood
  • Bruce Carlson: Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
  • Ted Uyeno: Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O’Brian
  • Julie Brefczynski-Lewis: Buddah’s Brain by Rick Hansen, any book by Octavia Butler
  • Sydney Schaefer: Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times by Marc J. Kuchner
  • Alan Templeton: The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
  • Tom Valone: Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words by John Pilley Jr.
  • Brian Schilling: Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations by Angelika H. Hofmann
  • Jen Smith: Straight Man by Richard Russo, Any book by Richard Powers
  • Jim Berkson: Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
  • Catherine Lang: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  • Caleb Hickman: The Log of the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
  • Larry Reiter: Beachbum Berry’s Potions of the Caribbean by Jeff Berry
  • Aina Puce: La Cucina: The Regional Cooking of Italy by The Italian Academy of Cuisine
  • Julie Peterson: Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World by Marlene Zuk, Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk, any book by May Berenbaum
  • Deanna Barch: Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
  • Andrew Fry: Any book by John Grisham
  • Eric Leuthardt: RedDevel 4 by Eric Leuthardt, The Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
  • Becky Chaplin-Kramer: The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
  • Adam Dubis: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Christine Mac Donald: Base Instincts by Jonathan Pincus
  • Meghan Campbell: The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
  • Ege Kavalali: Double Helix by James Watson, Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller, Schrödinger: Life and Thought by Walter J. Moore
  • John Blitch: Any three books that are contrary to your current view of the world
  • Jeremy Pritchard: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  • Ben Kolber: The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb
  • Mike Gaffrey: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Becca Safran: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Josh Swamidass: For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery by Rodney Stark
  • Lucas Pozzo-Miller: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
  • Mike Bevis: The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Time and The Earth’s Antiquity by Jack Repcheck, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth by John Playfair
  • Ken Olsen: Salt by Mark Kurlansky
  • Mike Angilletta: Homicide by Margo Wilson and Martin Daly
  • Lisa Monteggia: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
  • Brad Bushman: Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, Wendy Roth, and Jal Mehta, The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, Anne Frank: The Diary of Anna Frank by Anne Frank
  • Niklas Elmqvist: American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Baroque Cycle series by Neal Stephenson
  • Yehuda Ben-Shahar: Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
  • Josh Sanes: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
  • Joan Luby: The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
  • Jonathan Godbout: Game of Thrones by George Martin, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
  • Jane Kenney-Hunt: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin, any book by Steven J. Gould
  • Nick Spitzer: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
  • Brad Jolliff: Lord of Emperors: Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay, Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars (trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson, To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist’s History of Lunar Exploration by Don Wilhelms
  • Mike Sears: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman, Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art by Harry Greene
  • Amy Toth: Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys by Rob Dunn
  • Jason Rohr: Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research by Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner
  • Mark McDaniel: Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel
  • Rob Paul: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • Rosemary Gillespie: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • Peggy Mason: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, April 1865: The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal
  • Jalees Rehman: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  • John Morris: Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease by Konrad Maurer, Ulrike Maurer, Neil Levi, and Alastair Burns
  • Hans Klompen: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
  • Henry Roediger: Elements of Episodic Memory by Endel Tulving, Civil War Trilogy by Jeff Shaara, The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara, Voices of Collective Remembering by James V. Wertsch
  • Tim Caro: Adaptive Coloration in Animals by Hugh Cott, The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Kyra Krakos: The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Amro Zayed: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Steve Mennerick: Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
  • Julie Kauer: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
  • Stephen Blake: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Cliff Beall: The Kingkiller Chronicle series by Patrick Rothfuss
  • Lou Muglia: Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia, Crucible of Science by John Exton
  • Brian Allan: World War Z by Max Brooks
  • Shirley Sahrman: The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Gautam Dantas: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  • John Harte: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
  • Julian Meeks: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Eegan
  • Birgit Kaufmann: A Heart So White by Javier Marias
  • Ann Stowe: Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
  • Keivan Stassun: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Donald Price: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • Philip Motta: Any book by Randy Wayne White
  • Allison Miller: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Yu-Shang Lee: Field Notes on Science and Nature Edited by Michael Canfield
  • Denise Montell: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • Cary Savage: Born to Run by Christopher McDougal
  • Jacob Israelachvili: The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
  • Jen White: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  • Ingrid Parker: The Mountains of California by John Muir
  • Mike Barlow: One, Two, Three… Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow, Frontiers of Astronomy by Fred Hoyle, Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy by Martin Harwit, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations by Norman Davies
  • Cameron Thrash: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
  • Peter Wilf: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Asterix and Corsica Series by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein, Discoverers of the Lost World by George Gaylord Simpson, Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal by George Gaylord Simpson
  • Scott Fruin: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow,  Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
  • Laura Burkle: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World by Rafe Sagarin and Anibal Pauchard
  • Patrick Hart: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  • Dustin Siegel: Of Scientist and Salamanders by Victor Twitty
  • Ben Halpern: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • Larry Squire: The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and The North Pole by Pierre Berton, The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Priscilla McMillan
  • Amy Esler: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Gene Robinson: Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
  • Jonathan Lynch: DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
  • Chris Bettinger: The Art of Scientific Investigation by William Beveridge, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Lance Armstrong: A Biography by Bill Gutman
  • Alex Hayes: The Art of Roughhousing by Anthony T. DeBenedet and Lawrence J. Cohen
  • Cathy Dwyer: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, Wolf Fall by Hillary Montell, Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Montell
  • Joel Perlmutter: Any novel by Daniel Silva
  • Hope Jahren: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Ray Arvidson: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose

  • Mike Snyder: You Cannot Be Serious by John McEnroe

  • David Klahr: Poetry by Billy Collins, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon, The Journey From Child to Scientist: Integrating Cognitive Development and the Education Sciences by Sharon Carver and Jeff Shrager
  • Ralph Adolphs: Running with the Pack by Mark Rollands, The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rollands
  • Steve Ormerod: Poetry by Ted Hughes
  • Nan Arens: Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
  • Emily Cross: Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher, Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
  • Irving Epstein: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • Alexandra Harmon-Threatt: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Katrina Steiling: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Jen Biddle: Oyster by Mark Kurlansky, Salt by Mark Kurlansky, Cod by Mark Kurlansky
  • Steve Churchill: Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths by Lewis Binford, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Kate Scholberg: The Riddle of the Labrynth by Margalit Fox
  • Dan Geschwind: Books by Olin Steinhauer, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
  • John Dowling: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, Recollections of My Life by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Creating Mind by John Dowling
  • Terry McGlynn: Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash, Every Living Thing by Rob Dunn
  • Stephen Long: Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton
  • Todd Braver: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  • Jennifer Dunn: The Preschool Years by Ellen Galinsky, In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
  • Eva Harris: El Tiempo Escondido by Joaquín M. Barrero
  • Robyn Klein: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation by Gayle Green
  • Sergio Pellis: The Outsider by Alber Camus, Adaptation and Natural Selection by George Williams
  • James Berger: The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Jelle Atema: The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson
  • Michael Mueller: Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
  • Ralph Muehleisen: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
  • Sandra Schmid: Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • Doug Weibel: Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich
  • Brian Crother: The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Case of the Midwife Toad by Arthur Koestler
  • Kay Davies: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
  • Stephen Curry: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, The Eighth Day of Creation by Horace Judson
  • Iliana Baums: Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science by Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
  • Michael Hagan: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • Cary Pint: Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Jeff Diamond: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • Michael Scharf: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  • David Spergel: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Andy Picsek: Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings, Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
  • Jon Copley: The Log of the Sea of Cortes by John Steinbeck
  • Jason Wright: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton, What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton, One Two Three… Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
  • Karla Kaun: Time, Love, and Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
  • Ray Huey: Modernist Cuisine at Home by Nathan Myhrvold
  • Rob Phillips: Men of Mathematics by Eric Temple Bell, The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Robert B. Leighton and Richard Feynman, Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenbug, The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen, Genes and Signals by Mark Ptashne and Alex Gann, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
  • Marla Sokolowski: Isac Asimov’s Foundation series, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Any book by Anne Michaels
  • Neo Martinez: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Richard Hardy: Straight Man by Richard Russo, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Christine Floss: The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
  • Laurence Packer: Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them by Laurence Packer, Books on the photography of Bill Brandt
  • Murray Blackmore: The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
  • David Baltrus: The Eighth Day of Creation by Horace Freeland Judson, Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Woodward Fischer: The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven Rinella
  • Mark Martin: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  • Kathryn Clancy: Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn G Heilbrun, Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective by Kathryn Clancy, Katie Hindle and Julienne Rutherford. Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk. Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis-Floyd, The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin.
  • Mike Brown: The Son by Philipp Meyer
  • Christelle Wauthier: Volcanoes by Peter Francis and Clive Oppenheimer, Books by Stephen King or Anne Rice, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
  • Joan Strassmann: The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton, The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry
  • Chris Rowan: The Dynamics of Disaster by Susan Kieffer
  • Irene Newton: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Sara Soderstrom: The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebeccah Skloot
  • Charles Nelson: Romania’s Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery by Charles Nelson, Nathan Fox, and Charles Zeanah, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • Sharon Swartz: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
  • Michael Cole: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
  • Joel Levine: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers, The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit by Melvin Konner, The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind by Melvin Konner, Mastery by Robert Greene
  • Vincent Racaniello: March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen by John Ingraham
  • Philip Metzger: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Patrick Moore: Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Music: “Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos” by Missy Mazzoli, “Stainless Staining” by Lisa Moore
  • Norman Ellstrand: Dangerous Liaisons?: When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives by Norman Ellstrand, Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Living a Life That Matters by Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields
  • Dawn Bazely: Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada by Chris Turner, any book by Fred Vargus, Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy, Never Be Late Again: 7 Cures for the Punctually Challenged by Diana DeLonzor
  • James Bird: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
  • Zach Hambrick: The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
  • Lily Wang: The Lunar Chronicles Series by Marissa Meyer, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • Marc Cadotte: Gums, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • Rachel Wong: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Brian Romans: How Music Works by David Byrne
  • Duane Diefenbach: Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
  • Paul Breslin: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Sufi poets like Rumi and Hafiz, The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar
  • Diana Percy: Micrographia by Robert Hooke, Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach, Richard Hartmann, Irene Ebl-Eibesfeldt
  • Dennis Bente: The Immortal life of Henrietta Lax by Rebeccah Skloot
  • Ricardo Araneda: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean, Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
  • Tara Smith: Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn McKenna, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson, The Silo Series by Hugh Howey, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
  • Nancy Mills: The Science of Good Cooking by The Editors of America’s Test Kitchen and Guy Crosby, Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian
  • Elizabeth Stacy: Speciation by Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr
  • George Hajishengallis: Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  • David Strayer: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Talid Sinno: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Maureen Donnelly: The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Rasmus Nielsen: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • Tristram Kidder: Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William Ruddiman, Earth Transformed by William Ruddiman
  • David Holtzman: Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions – A New Biological Principle of Disease by Stanley Prusiner
  • Julie Booth: Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation – and Positive Strategies for Change by Linda Babcock, Checked by Jennifer Jamelli, Checked Again by Jennifer Jamelli
  • Jess Adkins: Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
  • Alison Fleming: Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Hardy, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Unerstanding by Sarah Hrdy
  • Christof Koch: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid, The Periodic Kingdom: A journey into the land of the chemical elements by P.W. Atkins, His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, Everything and More: A compact history of infinity by David Foster Wallace
  • Judson Brewer: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  • Maria Womack: Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman by Betty John
  • Nico Dantuma: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • Ian Baldwin: Zoobiquity: The astonishing connection between human and animal healthy by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
  • Sophia Hayes: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway by Ernest Hemmingway
  • Michael Dickinson: An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson, The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  • John Logsdon: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
  • Glenn Rall: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Ghostwritten by David Mitchell, Number9Dream by David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, Mims’ Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease by Anthony Nash and Cedric Mims
  • Linda Van Dillen: Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers by John Miller and Anjelica Huston
  • Herbert Geller: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, any book by Primo Levi, Robertson Davies, or Jonathan Safran Foe
  • Suzanne Simard: Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton, Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel
  • Anne Jefferson: Song of the Dodo by David Quammen, Spillover: Animal infections and the next human pandemic by David Quammen
  • David Clifford: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • JC Cahill: Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis – Lessons from a Master by Brad Gilbert and Steve Jamison
  • Karen James: The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
  • Paul Vasey: The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy by Paul Shankman
  • Wendy Bohrson: A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss, any book by Arthur Conan Doyle, any book by Agatha Christie
  • Randi Martin: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Ken Dawson-Scully: Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Daniel MacArthur: The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine by Kevin Davies
  • Kristen Pickett: From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz
  • Jim Pipas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Shawn Domagal-Goldman: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, The Game of Thrones books by George R. R. Martin
  • Jacquelyn Gill: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
  • Roshan Cools: When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin Yalom
  • Jeffrey Bada: Radiant Science, Dark Politics: A Memoir of the Nuclear Age by Martin Kamen
  • Dorothy Bishop: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Charles Cockell: The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris
  • Andrew Hill: The Gift by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
  • Aleix Martinez: The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, Reading Faces by Leopold Bellak, Eye, Brain, and Vision by David Hubel
  • Larry Crum: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
  • Mike Clegg: Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War by Douglas R. Egerton
  • Nick Dodman: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned by Merrill Markoe
  • Tom Carmichael: Carnival Evening by Linda Pastan, any poetry by W.S. Merwin, poetry by Stanley Kunitz
  • Mariana Wolfner: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Seth Bordenstein: Symbionticism and the Origin of Species by Ivan Wallin
  • Pam Ronald: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • Reggie Edgerton: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
  • Ruth Hufbauer: Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay, My Real Children by Jo Walton
  • Tess Russo: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Susan Wessler: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro, A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre, any book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Rob Dunn: A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul, Every Living Thing by Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies by Rob Dunn, The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by Rob Dunn
  • Yasmin Hurd: Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss, any book by Agatha Christie, any book by Stieg Larsson
  • Naomi Tague: The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization by Albert Cairo
  • Cassandra Extavour: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
  • Noah Fierer: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  • Tom George: Notes in Classical and Quantum Physics by Franco Battaglia and Tom George, Fundamentals in Chemical Physics by Franco Battaglia and Tom George, Phase Conjugation in a Layer on Nonlinear Material by Henk Arnoldus and Tom George, Microcomputer Modeling of Growth Processes of Single-Crystal Sheets and Fibers by Tom George, Liliana Braescu, Agneta Balint, Laszlo Nanai,Stefan Balint, The Science of Nanotechnology: An Introductory Text Hardcover by Luanne Tilstra, S. Allen Broughton, Robin Tanke, Daniel Jelski, Valentina French, Gouping Zhang, Alexander Popov, Arthur Western, Tom George
  • Luise Hermanutz: The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart
  • Jack Schultz: The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
  • Kurtis Williams: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  • Oliver Smithies: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
  • Holly Bik: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  • Andrea Califano: Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
  • Alain Cuerrier: The Earth’s Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living by Nancy Turner, poetry by Philippe Jaccottet
  • Fan-Gang Zeng: Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Mike Mann: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  • Louis Schipper: Neuromancer by William Gibson, Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh
  • Amy Vollmer: Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
  • Oné Pagán: The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, The First Brain: The Neuroscience of Planarians by Oné R. Pagán
  • Richard Jefferson: The Aubrey Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian, books by Annie Proulx, Neal Stephenson, Tim Winton, Bill Bryson, or Barbara Kingsolver
  • Sam Young: The Martian by Andy Weir, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Robert Kanigel, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward
  • Jenny Jenkins: A Natural History by Keith Oatley, Stoner by John Williams
  • Jim Gentile: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsig, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama
  • Sonya Bahar: Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
  • Gavin Schmidt: Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
  • Olaf Andersen: The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Erik Klemetti: The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs
  • Amy Mainzer: I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  • Jeff Iliff: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Josh Drew: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, The Black Unicorn Sings by Aja Monet, Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxanne Gay, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction by Thom van Dooren
  • Abby Smith: Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers, The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly
  • Greg Petsko: Gregory Petsko in Genome Biology: The first 10 years by Gregory Petsko, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
  • Kate McGrath: Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Charles Hohenberg: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  • Dan Goldman: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  • Anna Frebel: Ich bin dann mal weg: Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg by Hape Kerkeling
  • Jim Hudspeth: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, The Circle by Dave Eggers, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering by Steven Strogatz
  • Vic Arcus: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
  • Lawrence Krauss: The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Kay Tye: Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
  • David Hu: The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel
  • Spencer Barrett: Nature’s Oracle; The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton by Ullica Segerstrale, Helen Suzman: Bright Star in a Dark Chamber by Robin Renwick, any books by P. D. James, Ian Rankin, or Ian McEwan
  • Elizabeth Bonney: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Stephen Wolfram: Language, Thought, and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf, Living Cirripedia, A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia by Charles Darwin, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms by Isaac Newton, A Glossary of Greek Fishes, by Sir D’Arcy Thompson
  • Lee Cronin: Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
  • Nancy Mayo: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Heather Berlin: The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand Nicholi, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Hamlet by Shakespeare
  • Seth Guikema: The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future by Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea V. Ames, Stephen J. Culver, David J. Mallinson
  • Stuart Firestein: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner, Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science is so Successful by Stuart Firestein
  • Rupal Patel: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
  • Wakenda Tyler: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • David Pizarro: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! By Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton, Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert Frank, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson
  • Maureen Murphy: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • David Remy: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
  • Jan Westpheling: The Brethren by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, books on the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
  • Rob Malenka: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
  • Ben Zaitchik: The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley, Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil by Daniel Hillel, The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R. Weart, I and Thou by Martin Buber
  • Jennifer Graham-Engeland: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
  • Brock Grill: The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Dennis Barbour: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
  • Moselio Schaechter: The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis by Arthur Allen, In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist’s Tale by Elio Schaechter
  • Hélène Morlon: Colline by Jean Giono
  • Susan Krumdieck: A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Stanley Maloy: Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Don’t Be Such A Scientist by Randy Olson, The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer and Johnson, A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • James O’Dwyer: Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
  • Michael Archer: Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
  • Jennifer Grandis: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
  • Simon DeDeo: The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
  • Jon Butterworth: The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
, Smashing Physics/The Most Wanted Particle by Jon Butterworth
, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo
  • David Beversdorf: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  • Peter Crane: Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, Gingko: The Tree That Time Forgot by Peter Crane
  • Patrick Lusk: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Pat Hutchings: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  • Karmella Haynes: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Ryan Martin: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
  • Douglass Taber: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
  • Adam Gazzaley: The Void Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton
  • Chelsea Specht: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
  • Joel Fodrie: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough, Truman by David McCullough
, John Adams by David McCullough
, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
, any book by Joseph Ellis
  • Kenneth Heilman: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, The Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak 
by Janusz Korczak
  • Jeremy Brownlie: Sydney Brenner: A Biography by Errol C. Friedberg
  • Celeste Nelson: Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer, any book by Terry Pratchett
  • Pat Schloss: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Chris Lortie: Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
  • Nate Morehouse: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
  • Carolyn Bertozzi: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Mina Bissell: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
  • Eric Green: The Double Helix by James Watson
  • Maria Marco: Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Jim Tour: The Holy Bible, Lectures to My Students by Charles H. Spurgeon
  • Jill Pruetz: Possession by A. S. Byatt, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  • Roger Smith: The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Erin Hodgson: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • Brendan Frey: Cosmos by Carl Sagan, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Russell Foster: The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
, Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
, Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Franck Polleux: La Logique du Vivant by François Jacob, Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll
  • Dave Messina: Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi and The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
  • Blake Meyers: George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The emergence of genetics in the 20th Century by Paul Berg and Maxine Singer, Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant
  • Lewis Cantley: The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
  • Matt O’Neal: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
  • Steve Heard: The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career by Steve Heard, Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis by Kim Todd
  • David Weindorf: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • Laurie Santos: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher, Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But… by Derrick Handspike
  • Rob Johns: How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia, The Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence, David Wellington’s Monster trilogy
  • Christine McCarthy: All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, “The Perfect Fit” article in The New Yorker by David Sedaris
  • Todd Cade: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins, The Candy Bombers by Andrei Cherny, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  • Teresa Bergholz: The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
  • Seán Barry: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  • Malia Gehan: Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists by Ellen Daniell
  • Chris Buddle: The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt, any book by Cormac McCarthy
  • Angelique Johnson: The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
  • Gail Ashley: West with the Night by Beryl Markham
  • Madhur Anand: View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by G. Polya
  • Suzana Herculano-Houzel: Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
  • David Stern: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
  • Sapna Sharma: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield
  • Melik Demirel: The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  • Alicia Kowaltowski: Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
  • Christopher Cederroth: The Macchiarini Case Reports from The Karolinska Institute
  • Shannon Manning: Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
  • Stacey Harmer: Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
  • Tamara Bogdanović: The Autobiography of Mark Twain edited by Harriet E. Smith, et al.
  • Gemma Reguera: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Ron Johnson
  • Christopher Castro: This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
  • Rebecca Richards-Kortum: Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley, The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  • Erin Conwell: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson and The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
  • Antoine van Oijen: For the Love of Enzymes by Arthur Kornberg, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Ohara Augusto: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E.O. Wilson, The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
  • Leif Karlstrom: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
  • Christian Franck: The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
  • Barry Byrne: The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million – And Bucked the Medical Establishment – In a Quest to Save His Children by Geeta Anand
  • Shaundra Daily: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries and The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live – and How You Can Change Them by Richard J. Davidson
  • Winslow Briggs: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels’ Escape to Freedom by Peter F. Stevens
  • Bryan Fry: Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever by Bryan Grieg Fry, Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins: Evolution, Pathophysiology and Biodiscovery by Bryan Grieg Fry, Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • Molly Peeples: The Three Body Problem Trilogy by Liu Cixin
  • Dave Coyle: Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich, The Little Blue Truck series by Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry
  • Imogen Coe: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  • Adam Abate: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman
  • Andrew Pelling: Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Erin Carlson: Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Martin J. Blaser, Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
  • Mike Blatt: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker, The Telling by Ursula Le guin, The Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin
  • Sterling Nesbitt: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
  • Cullen Buie: Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good by Amy L. Sherman
  • Sara Skrabalak: Epileptic by David B
  • Leo Smith: Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill by Tip O-Neill
  • Dan Lewis: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
  • Christy Haynes: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  • Melissa Franklin: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  • Mike Summers: Contact by Carl Sagan
  • Tessa Hill: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  • Aaron Dossey: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert Reich, For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner, Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures by Thomas Eisner and Maria Eisner
  • Jim Trefil: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters, Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System
  • Debbie Senesky: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
  • Dominic D’Agostino: Tripping Over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer by Travis Christofferson, Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, A Man on the Moon: They Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
  • Josh Rappoport: The Omnivores Dilemma: The History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, The Cell: Discovering the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future by Josh Rappoport, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  • Young-Hui Chang: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! By Richard P. Feynman
  • Marcie Harris-Hayes: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You That She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
  • Rick Myers: The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  • James Landers: The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh
  • Andrew Alleyne: The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker
  • Jennifer Wilcox: The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hagar
  • Zach Eilon: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin
  • Peter Campochiaro: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
  • Teresa Woodruff: The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation by Clara Pinto-Correia
  • Princess Imoukhuede: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation – and Positive Strategies for Change by Linda Babcock
  • Lynne Maquat: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • Camron Bryant: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
  • Ayanna Howard: Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey
  • Ted Bergin: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Cradle of Life: Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils by J. William Schopf
  • Sudha Seshadri: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Steve Ramirez: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker
  • Sarah Bergbreiter: Anatham by Neal Stephenson
  • Gary May: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, various superhero comic books, The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
  • Erica Golemis: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, Sewer, Gas, and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff, books by Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Technopoly by Niel Postman, Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows
  • Mark Saffman: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo, Quantum Mechanics of One- and Two-Electron Atomsby Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter
  • John Kress: Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans edited by John Kress and Jeffrey Stine, The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, Natural History of Trees by Donald Peattie
  • Ellen Arruda: Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Alex Spyropoulos: Poems by Rumi
  • Alan Goldberg: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • Kristen Lynch: Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, The Divergent series by Veronica Roth
  • Randy Blakely: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  • Chris Moulin: The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Déjà Vu by Chris Moulin, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks, A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
  • Kevin France: The Pleasures of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • Audrey Dussutour: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien, Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le blob sans jamais oser le demander by Audrey Dussutour
  • Greg Dussor: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  • Ellen Zweibel: The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
  • Ted Price: Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Joel Sachs: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, The Double Helix by James Watson
  • Abby Polter: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Ed DeLong: Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
  • Rodrigo Quian Quiroga: The Forgetting Machine by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, The Aleph and other short stories by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Suzanne Clough: The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
  • Bryan Lewis: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Ian Winship: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Wonder by R. J. Palacio
  • Michele Koons: The Source by James Michener
  • Bruce Beehler: Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli, Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers by Arthur Cleveland Bent, North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring by Bruce Beehler
  • Chris Barrett: Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark
  • Jennifer Ramp Neale: The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure, The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
  • Thijs Heus: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Howe
  • Brian Keating: Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor by Brian Keating, Gravity’s Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves by Harry Collins, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg, Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew Grove
  • Eurie Hong: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Madhav Marathe: Books by Richard Feynman, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • John Aitchison: Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • Francisca Ikuenobe: The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  • Sunny Wong: Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell by Natalie Angier, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, The Easter Parade by Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates, short stories by Raymond Carver
  • Douglas Futuyma: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky, Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  • Nicole Garneau: Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, The Kid by Will Nuessle
  • Samarth Swarup: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  • Lori LaPlante: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Daniel Whiteson: We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Known Universe by Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham, the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Diaspora by Greg Egan
  • Justin Barad: Doctors: The Biography of Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland
  • Marcie O’Malley: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May
  • Kurt Hankenson: Books by Michael Chabon, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Moo by Jane Smiley, Straight Man by Richard Russo
  • Jo Dunkley: Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf, Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide by Jo Dunkley
  • Tuomo Suntola: The Short History of Science by Tuomo Suntola, The Dynamic Universeby Tuomo Suntola, and Theoretical Basis of the Dynamic Universe by Tuomo Suntola, Metaphysics by Aristotle, Philosophical Essays by G.W. Leibniz, Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare
  • Michael Levin: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Weiner, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, Shufflebrain by Paul Pietsch
  • Alexandra Martiniuk: The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism by Kristine Barnett
  • Carmel Majidi: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  • Deepak Singh: Short stories by Rajendra Yadav, What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
  • Rebecca Wattam: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
  • Eric Kmiec: Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  • Richard Ivry: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  • Marcia Bjornerud: The Overstory by Richard Powers, The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh, Views of Nature by Alexander von Humboldt, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
  • Jonathan Payne: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  • Jamie Voyles: On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
  • Philip Moriarty: When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal by Philip Moriarty, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Thomas Nichols, Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Differentby Philip Ball
  • Satesh Bidaisee: On Bulls**t by Harry G. Frankfurt
  • Kathryn Whitehead: I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
  • Dennis Riley: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • Mario Thevis: Wormwood by John Marr and The Eleventh Plague by John Marr
  • Allison Okamura: The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Chad Orzel: The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics by Robert Oerter, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn by Amanda Gefter, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel, How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel, Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist by Chad Orzel, and Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects by Chad Orzel
  • Robert Beardsley: Evolution of Infectious Disease by Paul Ewald
  • Barbara Katzenback: Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
  • Joseph Takahashi: Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner
  • Janine Austin Clayton: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation For Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Michael Fox: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
  • Todd Zankel: Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
  • Carla Finkielstein: The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buckby Adam Cohen
  • Paul Steinhardt: Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok, The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter by Paul Steinhardt, and Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
  • Lisette DePillis: 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters by John DePillis, Professor Molly Mystery series by Frankie Bow, anything by C.S. Lewis, Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, In Times Like These series by Nathan Van Coops
  • Joseph Ryan: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • Talithia Williams: Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics by Talithia Williams, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Fulvio D’Acquisto: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung, The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
  • Stephanie Shipp: Systematic Thinking for Social Action by Alice Rivlin, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
  • Joan Mannick: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  • Rafael Carbunaru: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Kimberly Blackwell: A Cure Within: Scientists Unleashing The Immune System to Kill Cancerby Neil Canavan
  • Jayshree Seth: Championing Science: Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers by Roger D. Aines and Amy L. Aines
  • Eric Pop: The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer is Wrongby Chris Anderson and David Sally
  • Denver Lough: The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Annaliesa Anderson: Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O’Hanlon, Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O’Hanlon
  • Edith Widder: Becoming by Michelle Obama; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks; Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind; The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman, Below the Edge of Darkness by Edith Widder (soon to be released)
  • Brian Goode: Complex Webs: Anticipating the Improbable by Bruce J. West, East Is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll by Thomas Gladwin
  • Jennifer Wargo: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  • Karl Heilbron: Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
  • Anne Fung: Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
  • Neil Solomons: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
  • Jim Doherty: Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
  • Cori Richards-Zawacki: In Search of the Golden Frog by Marty Crump, The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • Paul Cannon: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
  • Christine Drea: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • Al Robichaud: Many Moons by James Thurber
  • Lisa Whitenack: The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin
  • David Berman: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott
  • Nick Haddad: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature by Nick Haddad
  • Susanne Brander: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Meredith Hughes: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
  • Uri Tabori: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • Michelle Heck: Insect Molecular Virology Edited by Bryony C. Bonning and The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
  • Jessica Tracy: Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success by Jessica Tracy, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  • Kim Tieu: COMA by Robin Cook
  • Molly Gayle Hammell: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren and Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
  • Edward Rebar: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
  • Karen Daniels: Broken Earth Trilogy Series by N. K. Jemisin
  • Elizabeth Haswell: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, The Overstory by Richard Powers, Every other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists by Ellen Daniell
  • Daniel Chung: The Bible, photography by Art Wolfe and Thomas Mangelsen
  • Jim Estes: Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature by Jim Estes, Naturalist by E. O. Wilson, The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen, The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters by Sean Carroll, Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life by Geerat Vermeij
  • John Talley: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
  • Jennifer Ross: Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, The Expanse Series by James S. A. Corey, The Broken Earth Series by N. K. Jemisin, Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
  • Gayle Schueller: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough, The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew Winston
  • Mary Power: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg, Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul G. Falkowski, The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters by Sean B. Carroll
  • Donovan German: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan, and Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert Lustig
  • Sonia Contera: Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology by Sonia Contera, Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I by Matthew Stanley, and Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
  • Andrew Friedman: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan, Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy by David Brin
  • Yolanda Chen: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
  • Tim Long: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson, books by Nora Roberts
  • Laurel Buxbaum: The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • Kristen Rasmussen: The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job by Karen Kelsky , Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
  • Simon Sponberg: Momo by Michael Ende, The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • Ana Spalding: A Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall, Becoming by Michelle Obama, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • David Weiner: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card
  • Crystal Marconett: Ricky, the Rock That Couldn’t Roll by Jay Miletsky
  • Jonathan Toner: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  • David Sedlak: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling, Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource by David Sedlak
  • Natalia Vergara: The Last Sword Maker by Brian Nelson, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll
  • Rodolphe Barrangou: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Michael Hochella: Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
  • Ayanna Thomas: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Death’s End by Liu Cixin
  • Douglas Fields: The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science by R. Douglas Fields, Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain by R. Douglas Fields, Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better by R. Douglas Fields, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, and Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells
  • Verónica Pérez Rodríguez: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Paul Changelian: All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr and Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize by Sean B. Carroll
  • Tim Behrens: The Genius Biographies: Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson; How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan; Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
  • Ana Luisa Trejos: The Secret Place by Tana French
  • Ada Tang: Letters to My Grandchildren by David Suzuki
  • Dylan Edwards: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond; The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; and The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Mariana Byndloss: Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World Bookby Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta and any book by Amyr Klink
  • Robert Dudley: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Language of God by Francis Collins, and The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
  • Wes Gilson: Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence Book by Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, and Joshua Gans
  • Martha Muñoz: The Trial by Franz Kafka and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Ileana Soto: Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible by Max Lucado
  • Joe Baio: Canada by Richard Ford and Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
  • Umesh Venkatesan: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  • Ayse Turak: How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays by Umberto Eco, Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, and By the Swordby Mercedes Lackey
  • Lauren Ponisio: The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees by Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia J. Messinger Carril
  • Darryl Boyd: The Road from Money: A Journey to Find Why? by Sylvester Boyd Jr. and The Road from Money: The Journey Continues by Sylvester Boyd Jr.
  • Shara Bailey: Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly, Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation–and Positive Strategies for Change by Linda Babcock
  • Kanaka Rajan: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
  • Steve Townsend: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  • Sharlene Santana: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  • Franklin West: A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R. R. Martin
  • Amanda Rabinowitz: The Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide To Designing Interventions by Susan Michie, Lou Atkins, and Robert West and Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Changeby Eitan Hersh
  • Katie Mack: Network Effect by Martha Wells and The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • Kathryn Medler: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Saad Bhamla: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Julia Bailey-Serres: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
  • Kerri Morgan: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  • Erica Middleton: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, LaRose by Louise Erdrich, and The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  • Luke O’Neill: The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond, Catching the Worm: Towards Ending River Blindness, and Reflections on My Life Hardcover by William Campbell and Claire O’Connell, Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing Our Species Today by Luke O’Neill, Humanology: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Amazing Existence by Luke O’Neill, The Great Irish Science by Luke O’Neill
  • John Whyte: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Amanda Therrien: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould, Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
  • Shailesh Kantak: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • Paul Schimmel: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung, “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s play The Honest Man’s Fortune
  • Sharon Antonucci: Any books by Gail Godwin, James Harriot, Robert Caro, and J.R.R. Tolkein
  • Ed Belbruno: Intelligent Life in the Universe by Carl Sagan and Iosif Shklovsky
  • Gabriella Vigliocco: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Autumn-Lynn Harrison: Nancy Drew books, Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
  • Cassandra Quave: On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist by Clarissa Ward, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food by Gina Rae La Cerva, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines by Cassandra Quave
  • Stephanie Wear: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  • Sandra Encalada: A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
  • Verónica Di Stilio: The Time in Between María Dueñas, Sira by María Dueñas, The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, Zen Heart: Simple Advice for Living with Mindfulness and Compassion by Ezra Bayda, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain, poems by Emily Dickinson.
  • Nathan Smith: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Nicholas Oberlies: The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax, Cinder by Marissa Meyer
  • Aruni Bhatnagar: The Overstory by Richard Powers, Nutshell by Ian McEwan
  • Tara Alvarez: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson; Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg; Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
  • Howard Rosenbaum: Endurance by Alfred Lansing and other historical non-fiction accounts of larger than life characters.
  • Robin Buell: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • Mita Dasog: Books by Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton, as well as the Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Emily Darling: The Expanse Series by James S. A. Corey, The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews, and Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Josh Pate: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • Thomas Brück: Short Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
  • Rosie Alegado: The Properties of Perpetual Light by Julian Aguon and Lessons from Plants by Beronda Montgomery
  • Joel Berger: In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda’s Mountain Gorillas by Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World by Joel Berger
  • Michele Battle: A Burnt Out-Case by Graham Greene
  • Alexandra DiFeliceantonio: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • David Kaplan: The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston, The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
  • Adriana San Miguel: Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
  • Corey Hopkins: Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson
  • Gregory Krug: Books by James Herriot such as All Creatures Great and Small, Every Living Thing, If Only They Could Talk, It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet, and Let Sleeping Vets Lie
  • Daniel Czyż: The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma
  • Germán Forero-Medina: The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen, The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Kevan Shokat: The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron by Benjamin Ehrlich
  • Diana Aga: The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
  • Tim Buschman: Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson, What If  books by Randall Munroe
  • David Liu: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Hongkui Zeng: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
  • Sonia Mayoral: Community as Rebellion A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña
  • Anand Padmanabhan: For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914–18 by Shrabani Basu
  • Nicole Calakos: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
  • Laura Kiessling: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • Denise Okafor: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer
  • Ralph Dewey: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Susie Dai: Any book by Vaclav Smil
  • Rachel Perry: Radical Candor by Kim Scott
  • Gareth Fraser: Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution by Sean Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean Carroll, The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
  • Alexis Wood: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
  • Erdem Tabdanov: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, books by Carl Sagan
  • Magdalena Osburn: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
  • Beth Weaver: The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again by Catherine Price
  • Michael Demetriou: The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien and political blogs or posts such as The Hill.
  • Ariel Furst: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
  • Claire Higgins: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Pankaj Karande: The Premonition by Michael Lewis, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles Mann
  • Ryan Potts: Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Eric Skaar: The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson, Eyewitness to History by John Carey
  • Alan Saltiel: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey, Between Parent and Child by Dr. Haim G. Ginott
  • Taylor Hutchison: Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers
  • Carlos Portela: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Lin Tian: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind by Joyce Meyer
  • John Majercak: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast, and the Lex Fridman Podcast
  • Kim Waddell: The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale by John List; The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Robert Langer: The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan Schwartz
  • Boo Maisels: The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow, any books by Cormac McCarthy
  • Samantha Maragh: Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman
  • Carly Anne York: An Immense World by Ed Yong, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach, Red Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson, Queens of the Jungle by Dr. Carly Anne York
  • Rachel Bennett: The Southern Reach Series by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Ruchira Singh: Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
  • Jonathan Kipnis: In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work by Rita Levi-Montalcini, Advice to a Young Scientist by Peter Medawar
  • Catherine Carr: Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods by Jennifer Clack, The Other Big Bang: The Story of Sex and Its Human Legacy Eric S. Haag