I recommend only books I have read and enjoyed.

• Medical Detectives, Berton Roueche
• The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
• Methuselah’s Zoo, Steven Austad
• The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins
• Moby Duck, Donovan Hohn
• The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Keen
• A Wonderful Life, Stephan Jay Gould
• Overkill, Paul Offit
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
• Behave, Robert Sopolsky
• The Body, Bill Bryson
• A Taste for Poison, Neil Bradbury
• American Prometheus, the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
• Cobalt, Charlie Angus
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
• Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
• The Invention of Air, Steven Johnson
• Tuxedo Park, Jennet Conant
• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• The Compatability Gene, Daniel M. Davis
• Stiff, Mary Roach
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
• The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
• The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
• Gulp, Mary Roach
• Cosmos, Carl Sagan
• Outlive, Peter Attia
• Building a Life Worth Living, Marsha M. Linehan
• A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage
• Most Delicious Poison, Noah Whitema
• Phosporus: the Devil’s Element, Dan Egan
• Oranges, John McPhee
• Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death, David G. Marwell
• Outbreak, Robin Cook
• Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
• Ordinary Men, Christopher R. Browning
• In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
• The Dispossessed, Ursula LeGuin
• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
• Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higgenbotham
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
• The Stranger, Camus
• Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
• The Chosen, Chaim Potok
• Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Wager, David Grann
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Joan Didion
• A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
• 1984, George Orwell
• Japan’s Infamous Unit 731, Hal Gold
• The Glass Universe, Dava Sobel