Ecology
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson		Easy Reading
Evolution
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Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in our Time by Jonathan Weiner		Average
Fossils: The History of Life by Richard Fortey
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey		Average
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins		Challenging
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin		Average
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin		Average
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey		Average
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephe J Gould
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
Genetics
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Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox		Average
Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes		Average
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson		Average
The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig		Easy Reading
General Interest
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Galileo's Commandment: 2500 Years of Great Science Writing by Edmund Blair Bolles
In The Wake of The Plague by Norman F. Cantor		Average
The Birds of Costa Rica : A Field Guide by Richard Garrigues, Robert Dean
History
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America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus by Alvin Josephy		Average
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions by Charles Gallenkamp		Average
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond		Average
Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester		Easy Reading
Over the Edge of the World : Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen		Average
Salt by Mark Kurlansky		Average
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin		Average
Physics
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A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson
Pysics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
Surely You're Joking Mr. Fieynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Phillips Feynman
Chemistry
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A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table by Michael D. Gordin
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny M LeCouteur

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