Philosophy of Science
Consilience The Idea that all knowledge is one thread
Conjectures and Refutations Popper - centrality of falsifiability to science
Evolution for Everyone D.S. Wilson - Lots of fun, blue collar science
Biology
Why Evolution is True J Coyne - better than Dawkins
The Selfish Gene Dawkins - start of my interest in genetics
The Blind Watchmaker Dawkins - needed to understand appearance of design arguments
The Ancestor's Tale Dawkins - encyclopedic view of the tree of life, long, with fascinating details
Endless Forms Most Beautiful S. Collins - new science of evo devo must read to understand gene expression
Birth of the Mind G.Marcus - how tiny # genes creates the complexity of human thought
Psychology and Brain Science
How the Mind Works S. Pinker - research psychologist who writes very clearly and entertainingly
The Blank Slate S Pinker - excellent exposition of nature vs nurture
Modern Cosmology
A Universe from Nothing Krauss - wow! spontaneous generation of multiple universes, led to by data
Knocking on HeavensDoor Randall - Why we built the Large Hadron Collider, and the technology involved
The Grand Design Hawking - Brilliant. Thought I understood it while reading it. Not so sure now.
For Children and Young Adults
The Magic of Reality Dawkins - delightful thought experiments for young adults
I will comment on some of them individually eventually. What do you think?
