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The list of non-fiction books to learn something from!

Notes about the list:

1. The list is in no particular order.
2. I have tried best to avoid double entries, but if anyone can find it, please PM me.
3. Tasks for you:

a. If you don't find a Title you know, please comment. I know that you know something that I don't know!

b. If anybody wants to create Goodreads list for this, Great! Just PM me a link to add it to this thread.

c. If anybody would volunteer to arrange/sort Titles, PM me. Thanks in Advance.

THE LIST:

1. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2. The Archimedes Codex - by Reviel Netz
3. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction - by David Quammen
4. At Home: A Short History of Private Life - by Bill Bryson
5. The Meme Machine (Popular Science) - by Susan Blackmore and Richard Dawkins
6. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - by Douglas R. Hofstadter
7. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - by Mary Roach
8. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - by Nathaniel Philbrick
9. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - by Mary Roach
10. 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
11. Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused - by Mike Dash
12. Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny - by Mike Dash
13. Salt: A World History - by Mark Kurlansky
14. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - by David Foster Wallace
15. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments - by David Foster Wallace
16. The Medium is the Massage - by Marshall McLuhan
17. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - by Barbara Demick
18. How to Talk About Book's You Haven't Read - by Pierre Bayard
19. Micro Monsters: Life Under the Microscope - by Christopher Maynard
20. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History - by John Barry
21. Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak - by Jeanne Guillemin
22. Fooled - by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
23. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - by Malcolm Gladwell
24. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond
25. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors - by Nicholas Wade
26. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond
27. The World Without Us - by Alan Weisman
28. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - by Charles C. Mann
29. The Book on the Bookshelf - by Henry Petroski
30. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - by David Grann
31. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine - by Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh
32. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.) - by Simon Singh
33. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - by Steven Johnson
34. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - by Mary Roach
35. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
36. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
37. A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson
38. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - by Richard Dawkins
39. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - by Joshua Foer
40. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives - by the Year 2100 - by Michio Kaku
41. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel - by Michio Kaku
42. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - by Neil Shubin
43. The Day We Found the Universe - by Marcia Bartusiak
44. 1861: The Civil War Awakening - by Adam Goodheart
45. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - by Niall Ferguson
46. The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 - by Niall Ferguson
47. Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan - by Jeff Greenfield
48. Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire - by William Rosen
49. Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity - by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince
50. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot
51. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - by Laura Hillenbrand
52. Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild - by Lee Sandlin
53. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf - by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
54. The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are - by Henry Petroski
55. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street - by Charles Nicholl
56. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul - by Kenneth R. Miller
57. Why Evolution Is True - by Jerry A. Coyne
58. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology - by Simon Winchester
59. The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity - by Jack Repcheck
60. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution - by Nick Lane
61. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - by Michael Pollan
62. The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell - by Basil Mahon
63. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life - by Stephen Webb
64. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe - by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee
65. Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life - by Peter Douglas Ward
66. Death - by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - by Neil deGrasse Tyson
67. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - by Edwin A. Abbott
68. In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time - by Dan Falk
69. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind - by Roger Penrose, Malcolm Longair, Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright
70. What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty - by John Brockman
71. The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance - by Fritjof Capra
72. What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable - by John Brockman
73. Cosmos - by Carl Sagan
74. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography - by Simon Singh
75. Scientific American's Ask the Experts: Answers to The Most Puzzling and Mind-Blowing Science Questions - by Editors of Scientific American
76. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos - by Michio Kaku
77. The Physics of Superheroes - by James Kakalios
78. 13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time - by Michael Brooks
79. I'm Working on That: A Trek From Science Fiction to Science Fact (Star Trek) - by William Shatner and Chip Walter
80. How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet - by Robert Zubrin
81. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - by Dava Sobel
82. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo - by Sean B. Carroll
83. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - by Sean B. Carroll
84. The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms - by Connie C. Barlow
85. The Evolution of God - by Robert Wright
86. The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - by Loren C. Eiseley
87. Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - by Lewis Thomas
88. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher - by Lewis Thomas
89. The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher - by Lewis Thomas
90. The Fragile Species - by Lewis Thomas
91. The Best American Science Writing [Yearly Anthology]
92. The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World - by Rob Desalle and David Lindley
93. How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever - by Jack Horner and James Gorman
94. Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life - by Scott D. Sampson and Philip J. Currie
95. The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe - by Marcus Chown
96. Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe - by Marcus Chown
97. Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life - by M. D. Brasier
98. Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life - by Carl Zimmer
99. Parasite Rex Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures - by Carl Zimmer
100. The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution - by Carl Zimmer
101. Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed - by Carl Zimmer and Mary Roach
102. At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea - by Carl Zimmer
103. A Planet of Viruses - by Carl Zimmer
104. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science - by Richard Holmes
105. Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species - by Sean B. Carroll
106. Complexity: A Guided Tour - by Melanie Mitchell
107. Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions - by Susan R. Barry
108. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom - by Graham Farmelo
109. Every Patient Tells a Story - by Lisa Sanders
110. The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems - by Mark Levi
111. Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster - by James R. Hansen
112. Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 - by John Harley Warner
113. The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser - by Jason Rosenhouse
114. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - by James Gleick
115. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength - by Roy F. Baumeister
116. Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman
117. Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science - by Marjorie Caroline Malley
118. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - by Jon Ronson
119. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - by David Eagleman
120. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - by Steven Pinker
121. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - by Brian Greene
122. The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment - by Chris Martenson
123. The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawking
124. The Mind's Eye - by Oliver Sacks
125. The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind - by Melvin Konner
126. Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality - by Jonathan Weiner
127. Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math - by Alex Bellos
128. Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique - by Michael S. Gazzaniga
129. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics - by Leonard Susskind
130. In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA - by James Schwartz
131. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - by Leonard Mlodinow
132. Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health - by David Michaels
133. Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process - by Irene M. Pepperberg
134. The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS - by Helen Epstein
135. Einstein: His Life and Universe - by Walter Isaacson
136. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - by Steven Pinker
137. The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology - by Bernd Heinrich
138. I Am a Strange Loop - by Douglas R. Hofstadter
139. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - by Norman Doidge
140. Proust Was a Neuroscientist - by Jonah Lehrer
141. The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans - by Ian Tattersall
142. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science - by Natalie Angier
143. Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love - by Lynn Margulis
144. The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth - by Tim F. Flannery
145. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - by Daniel J. Levitin
146. The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery - by D. T. Max
147. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next - by Lee Smolin
148. The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth - by Edward O. Wilson
149. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind - by Eric R. Kandel
150. The Electric Life of Michael Faraday - by Alan Hirshfeld
151. Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots - by Timothy N. Hornyak
152. Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut - by R. Mike Mullane
153. Chasing Hubble's Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time - by Jeff Kanipe
154. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel - by Rebecca Goldstein
155. Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape - by Brian Hayes
156. The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - by Roger Penrose
157. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior - by Temple Grandin
158. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - by Ray Kurzweil
159. The Planets - by Dava Sobel
160. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - by Lisa Randall
161. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman - by Richard P. Feynman
162. The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank - by David Plotz
163. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - by Neil deGrasse Tyson
164. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants - by Robert Sullivan
165. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - by Brian Greene
166. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution - by Richard Dawkins
167. The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus - by Owen Gingerich
168. No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species - by Richard Ellis
169. The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science - by Horace Freeland Judson
170. Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service - by Maryn McKenna
171. Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World - by Carl Zimmer
172. Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory - by Edward J. Larson
173. DNA: The Secret of Life - by Andrew Berry
174. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey - by Mark Read
175. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - by Simon Winchester
176. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human - by Matt Ridley
177. A Traveler's Guide to Mars - by William K. Hartmann
178. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - by David Foster Wallace
179. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics - by John Der- byshire
180. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - by Mary Roach
181. Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe - by James N. Gardner
182. A New Kind of Science - by Stephen Wolfram
183. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory - by Stephen Jay Gould
184. The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson
185. The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe - by Stephen Hawking
186. Linked: The New Science of Networks - by Albert-László Barabási
187. Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril - by Timothy Ferris
188. The Future of Spacetime - by Stephen William Hawking
189. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution - by Francis Fukuyama
190. On the Shoulders of Giants - by Stephen Hawking
191. The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World - by Ken Alder
192. Germs : Biological Weapons and America's Secret War - by William J. Broad
193. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - by Michael Pollan
194. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love - by Dava Sobel
195. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - by Brian Greene
196. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters - by Matt Ridley
197. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology - by Simon Winchester
198. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry - by Bryan Sykes
199. Flight: My Life in Mission Control - by Christopher C. Kraft
200. The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins
201. Three Roads to Quantum Gravity - by Lee Smolin
202. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics - by Gary Zukav
203. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - by Thomas S. Kuhn
204. The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 - by Brian M. Fagan
205. Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So - by Ian Stewart
206. E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation - by David Bodanis
207. Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science - by Phillip Manning
208. The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto - by Govert Schilling
209. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan
210. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene - by Richard Dawkins
211. Science: A History - by John Gribbin
212. Fabric of the Universe - by Denis Postle
213. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next - by Lee Smolin
214. Unsolved Mysteries of Science: A Mind-Expanding Journey through a Universe of Big Bangs, Particle Waves, and Other Perplexing Concepts - by John Williams Malone
215. The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature - by Timothy Ferris
216. The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life - by John L. Howland
217. Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk - by Massimo Pigliucci
218. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - by Andrew H. Knoll
219. Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England - by Steve Jones
220. Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks - by Ben Goldacre
221. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - by Kai Bird
222. Objectivity - by Lorraine J. Daston and Peter Galison
223. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 - by Lorraine J. Daston and Katharine Park
224. The Baroque Cycle (Series) - by Neal Stephenson [Historical Science Fiction]
225. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life - by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer
226. We Have Never Been Modern - by Bruno Latour and Catherine Porter
227. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts - by Bruno Latour , Steve Woolgar and Jonas Salk
228. The Island of the Day Before - by Umberto Eco
229. An Instance of the Fingerpost - by Iain Pears [Historical Fiction]
230. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller - by Gregg Herken
231. Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number - by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann
232. The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers - by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann
233. Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life - by Len Fisher
234. Hitch-22: A Memoir - by Christopher Hitchens
235. The Alchemist - by Paulo Coelho [Fiction]
236. The Illustrated Man - by Ray Bradbury [Science Fiction]
237. Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles - by Paul Halpern
238. The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug - by Thomas Hager
239. Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc - by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
240. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - by David Quammen
241. The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould - by Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Rose and Oliver Sacks
242. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - by Brian Greene
243. Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time - by Michio Kaku
244. The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle - by Sara Wheeler
245. Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity - by James Hansen
246. The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear - by Seth Mnookin
247. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution - by Holly Tucker
248. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter - by Tom Bissell
249. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture - by Wendell Berry
250. Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider - by Amir Aczel.
251. The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy - by Bernd Heinrich
252. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean - by Susan Casey
253. Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation - by Andrea Wulf.
254. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities and Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects - by Amy Stewart
255. Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can do At Home - But Probably Shouldn't - by Theo Gray
256. The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists - by Sean Connolly.
257. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World - by Jane McGonigal.
258. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other - by Sherry Turkle
259. Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us - by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman.
260. The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic - by Michael Sims.
261. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology - by Eric Brende
262. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope - by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
263. A Briefer History of Time - by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
264. The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures, 1964) Richard Feynman
265. The Control of Nature - by John McPhee
266. The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival - by Dr. Stephen R Palumbi and Ms Carolyn Sotka
267. Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future - by Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza
268. The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love - by Kristin Kimball
269. The Dynamics of Change - by Don Fabun
270. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - by Briane Greene
271. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - by David Foster Wallace
272. The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition - by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands
273. For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics - by Walter Lewin and Warren Goldstein
274. From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time - by Sean M. Carroll
275. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed - by John Vaillant
276. The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
277. The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World - by Paul Gilding
278. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground - by Kevin Poulsen
279. Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema - by David A. Kir- by
280. Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, Expanded Edition - by William P. Berlinghoff
281. The Mind's Eye - by Oliver Sacks
282. Organic Manifesto: How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe - by Maria Rodale
283. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America - by John M. Barry
284. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - by Roger Penrose
285. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - by Nicholas Carr
286. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) - by Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, and Albert R. Hibbs
287. They All Laughed... From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives - by Ira Flatow
288. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - by John Vaillant
289. What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg
290. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution - by Nick Lane
291. Down Among the Dead Men - by Michelle Williams and Keith McCarthy
292. The Design of Everyday Things - by Donald A. Norman
293. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality - by Richard Panek
294. Code Book - by Simon Singh
295. The Book of Universes - by John D. Barrow
296. Why Does E=mc2?: (and Why Should We Care?) - by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
297. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - by Deborah Blum
298. Evolution Rx: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing - by William Meller
299. The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society - by Frans de Waal
300. Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique - by John Gribbin
301. The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today - by Rob Dunn
302. Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter - by Ellen Prager
303. Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid - by Wendy Williams
304. Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth’s Largest Animals - by Sharon Levy
305. Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World - by Marlene Zuk
306. Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today - by David P. Clark
307. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing - by Lawrence M. Krauss
308. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - by Mike Brown
309. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival David Kaiser
310. Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality - by John Grant
311. Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math - by Alex Bellos
312. In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction - by Mary Paumier Jones and Judith Kitchen
313. The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - by Loren Eiseley
314. The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction - by Alice LaPlante
315. The Ascent Of Man - by Jacob Bronowski
316. Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth - by Roland Huntford
317. In Search of Genghis Khan: An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback across the Steppes of Mongolia - by Tim Severin
318. The Sindbad Voyage - by Tim Severin
319. China Voyage: Across the Pacific - by Bamboo Raft - by Tim Severin
320. The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the Golden Fleece - by Tim Severin
321. The Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution - by Timothy Severin and Tom Severin
322. The Ulysses Voyage: Sea Search for the Odyssey - by Tim Severin
323. In Search of Mo- by Dick: Quest for the White Whale - by Tim Severin
324. Crusader: - by Horse to Jerusalem - by Tim Severin
325. Seeking Robinson Crusoe - by Tim Severin

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[Billi]

You will find many interesting recommendations in this thread too:

Science ebook recommendations - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62517

[bfisher]

Charles Nicholl - "The Lodger Shakespeare"
Henry Petroski - "The Evolution of Useful Things"
Aaron Bobrow-Strain ; "White Bread"
Lee Sandlin - "Wicked River"
Mark Stein "How the States Got Their Shapes"
William Rosen - "Justinian's Flea"
Jeff Greenfield - "Then Everything Changed"
Niall Ferguson" - "The Ascent of Money" and "The Cash Nexus"
Adam Goodheart "1861"
Marcia Bartusiak "The Day We Found the Universe"
Neil Shubin - "Your Inner Fish"

[elemenoP]

I can recommend The Power of Habit by Duhigg. I enjoyed it very much and the subject matter was more wide-ranging than I would have expected.

eP

[MickeyC]

Add to your list:

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Moon Walking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku

[Nexutix]

Originally Posted by cassidym

Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku

I have always loved to listen to and watch videos of Michio Kaku. He is one man who knows how to communicate scientific ideas to a layman/anyone NOT in the field.

[Nexutix]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

I can recommend The Power of Habit by Duhigg. I enjoyed it very much and the subject matter was more wide-ranging than I would have expected.

eP

Oh yes!, listened to it as an audiobook. It basically explains habit formation process and how we can exploit by learning about it to improve ourselves. I felt detaching from it middle part, though. Must not be so "sticky", in the words of author himself.

[Pablo]

Simon Singh - "The Code Book"
Carl Sagan - "Cosmos"

[kennyc]

Excellent List, will take a bit for me to digest it and see if there is something else.

I will add one I'm reading right now,

"In Short - A collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction" and I'm loving it!

and a couple of my all time favorites:

The Immense Journey (may be my favorite book of all genres!) by Loren Eiseley

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The Making of a Story by Alice LaPlante (mostly about writing, but about reading as well)

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Nexutix

I have always loved to listen to and watch videos of Michio Kaku. He is one man who knows how to communicate scientific ideas to a layman/anyone NOT in the field.

Sorry, but I can't stand to see him on TV, he makes me crazy .... generally too over-dramatic and sensationalist.

[Nexutix]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Sorry, but I can't stand to see him on TV, he makes me crazy .... generally too over-dramatic and sensationalist.

I get it. I watched him on one Youtube video one day. Then I got impressed. I sat and watched all his youtube videos in 5 hours. What I realized though was: he repeats same exact sentences (like he has learnt it by heart) at different places of talk/interview/lecture.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Nexutix

I get it. I watched him on one Youtube video one day. Then I got impressed. I sat and watched all his youtube videos in 5 hours. What I realized though was: he repeats same exact sentences (like he has learnt it by heart) at different places of talk/interview/lecture.

When I see him is usually on a new program where they are interviewing his as an "expert" on all manner of stuff ...

and...

Yeah, I've had a poor experience recently reading a bunch of Neil deGrasse Tyson essays because he is constantly repeating the same quotes or examples or .... I think mostly because the essays were written for different markets at different time and the sameness only comes out when they are collected together in a book .... finally I just put it all aside.

[Jozawun]

Pretty sure that nos 225/236/237 by Stephenson, Coelho and Bradbury ain't non-fiction - though each of them are rattling good yarns.
No. 16 by Marshall McLuhan is a blast from the past - wonder what the old boy would make of the 21st Century internet.
No. 13 - Salt by Kurlansky should have been interesting, but wasn't, thanks to some writing that never reached the heights of pedestrian.
And, of course, a bit of pseudoscience never hurt anyone, so by all means don't miss no. 5 The Meme Machine (Popular Science) - by Susan Blackmore and Richard Dawkins.

[Nexutix]

Thanks Jozawun!

[owly]

Any of Tim Severin's books. He's recreated mythological and historical voyages since the 70's. http://www.timseverin.net/