- Into the Porcupine Cave by William Warner, National Geographic Society
- Consilience by Edward Wilson, Random House
- The Sun, the Genome and the Internet by Freeman Dyson, Oxford University Press
- Zen and the Brain by James Austin, MIT Press
- Mapping Time by E. G. Richards, Oxford University Press
- What is Natural? by Jan Sapp, Oxford University Press
- The Origins of Life by John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary, Oxford University Press
- Go Figure! by Clint Brookhart, Contemporary Books
- Newton and Gravity by Paul Strathern, Doubleday
- Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould, Ballantine Books
Essays on natural history sell well in the US鈥攁s Warner鈥檚 writings on
porcupines and other animals prove鈥攂ut British publishers in the main
won鈥檛 touch them. Brits, it seems, like their nature factual: no feeling or fine
writing required. Thoreau wouldn鈥檛 have thrived here.