- Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Walker & Co
- How the Laser Happened by Charles Townes, Oxford University Press
- Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata, Farrar Straus & Giroux
- The Code Book by Simon Singh, Doubleday
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman, Perseus
- The End of Time by Julian Barbour, Oxford University Press
- The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome, Dial Press
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig, Basic Books
- The Gendered Atom by Theodore Roszak, Conari Press
- Great Work by Thomas Berry, Bell Tower
After a year, Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe is still outstripping most
new titles. It’s the second highest seller after Dava Sobel’s Galileo’s Daughter.
Information supplied by Cody’s, Berkeley on popular science books published
within the past year. For more reviews, see our website