- The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Knopf
- Big Bang by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate/HarperCollins
- The Ancestor鈥檚 Tale by Richard Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin
- Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith, Houghton Mifflin
- The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman by Alexander Tsiaras and Barry Werth, Doubleday/Random House
- Tree: A life story by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, Greystone Books
- Incompleteness by Rebecca Goldstein, W. W. Norton
- A Sense of the Mysterious by Alan Lightman, Pantheon/Random House
- Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku, Doubleday/Random House
- A World Without Time by Palle Yourgrau, Basic Books
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鈥淚 never saw a poem as lovely as a tree,鈥� wrote poet Joyce Kilmer. The people of Berkeley seem to find loveliness in Tree, the 500-year biography of a Douglas fir in the Pacific north-west of the US. But for many the first thing 鈥淛oyce Kilmer鈥� brings to mind is a rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike. Which brings us to Nature Noir, a memoir of a landscape of canyons hemmed in by exurban sprawl in California鈥檚 Sierra Nevada, a couple of hours from Berkeley鈥�