I need a page that points to books that I think worthwhile or interesting or to book resources. This is it.
Books about science
General science:
- Toronto Rocks by Nick Eyles
- Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs by May R. Berenbaum
Cosmology, theoretical physics, and physics
- Books by and about Stephen Hawking and his work, including
- A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (who makes Hawking much more readable)
- Stephen Hawking’s Universe by John Boslough
- Stephen Hawking’s Universe web site
Books by Carl Zimmer, my favourite living science writer.
Books by Lewis Thomas:
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Medusa and the Snail More Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Fragile Species
- The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
Books by Stephen Jay Gould:
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
- Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams & the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
- The Mismeasure of Man
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Ever Since Darwin
- The Panda’s Thumb
- The Flamingo’s Smile
- Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes
- Eight Little Piggies
- Dinosaur in a Haystack
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
Books by Richard Fortey:
- Earth, an Intimate History
- Dry Store Room No. 1: The Story of the Natural History Museum
- Survivors
- Life
- The Hidden Landscape
- Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
- Trilobite! Eyewitess to Evolution
Books by Isaac Asimov.
Books by other authors:
- A New Human by Mike Morwood (H. floresiensis)
- Animals Make us Human by Temple Grandin
- Darwin, edited by Philip Appleman
- Tetrapod Zoology by Darren Naish
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss
- Rats, Lice, and History by Hans Zinsser
- Hunger Fighters and Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif
- Search for a Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth by Eleanor Clymer
Evolution:
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Evolution: the Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
- Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer
- Evolution for Everyone: How Evolution Can Change the Way We Think by David Sloan Wilson
- Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
- Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs (fossils in the Gobi Desert)
- Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods by Jennifer Clack
- A book list for evolutionists
- Scientists Confront Creationism. The book came out in 1984, but it’s still one of the best books on the subject. Nothing has changed very much since Ms. Godfrey published this volume, and I still keep it on my shelf as a reminder that, when I first encountered this book it explained to me why absolutely everything I had learned in Sunday School was nonsense. —Elf M. Sternberg
- Books about the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate immune system
- Science books recommended by Capacious Handbag
- Evolution’s Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World by Peter Nichols
More books about science:
- Books by Richard Dawkins
- Science books galore from Macmillan Science
- Great Minds of Science series (children’s)
Other links:
- Science vs. religion
- Books about religion
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman (another review)
- Pooh and the Millennium by John Tyerman Williams
- Books read in 2008
- Books read in 2007
- Books read in 2006
Book sites:
Science Notes 
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