I only recommend books I have read, and then only the ones I really liked. I very much welcome suggestions!

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 (and everything else by), Mary Roach

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks