- The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, Random House
- The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, Knopf
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, Belknap Press
- Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks, Knopf
- The Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner, W. W. Norton
- Wild Health by Cindy Engel, Houghton Mifflin
- The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig, Random House
- Synaptic Self by Joseph LeDoux, Viking
- Genes, Girls, and Gamow by James Watson, Knopf
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