LibGuides: Summer Reading 2025: Science

Science - Suggested Reading

However, the following books all make for very interesting reading and are highly recommended.

NON-FICTION

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780767908184
Publication Date: 2004-09-14
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9781982115869
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 1400052181
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780198788607
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Becoming Wild by Carl Safina
ISBN: 9781250787613
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9781501139161
Publication Date: 2018-10-02

FICTION

* These books are better than the movies! *

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
ISBN: 0593135229
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Dune by Frank Herbert; Neil Gaiman (Introduction by); Brian Herbert (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780143111580
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu; Ken Liu (Translator)
ISBN: 9780765382030
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
ISBN: 9780307887436
Publication Date: 2011-08-16