Recommended Reading List (fiction and nonfiction with a science theme)

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We are happy to release our Adult Summer Recommended Reading List! The following titles tie into our Literary Elements reading theme in that is fiction with a focus on science, but not necessarily science fiction. Enjoy and let us know what you think!


1984


Animal, Vegetable, Miracle


The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013


The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind


A Brief History of Time


Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who


Conned Again, Watson: Cautionary Tales Of Logic, Math, And Probability


Death Match


Deception Point


Gravity


The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements


Eco Craft: Recycle Recraft Restyle


The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden


Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World


The Fractal Murders


The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life


The Host


The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time


Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century


The Oxygen Murder


Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void


Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements


The Physics of Star Trek


Robopocalypse


Prey


Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist


The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics

Space


State of Fear


The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie


The Time Traveler's Wife


The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag


Who is Who?: The Philosophy of Doctor Who