The Science Library has a collection of over 500,000 items from books to CD-ROMs.  Not all of these are just for research.  You will find the latest best-sellers and classics in the sciences here as well.  These are the books that have inspired major motion pictures, sparked controversy, and even redefined the way we think about the world. 

Come to the first floor of the Science Library and check out some of the great reads we have found in our collection.  You can even form your own reading list by doing a Popular Works search.  Here you can find an alphabetical listing of subjects.  Just click on the one that interests you most and you'll find great books to read. 

 

 

 

 

Next time you're in the Science Library, remember to pick up a great read!

 

 

        

 

     

	Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters / Matt Ridley New York : Harper Collins, 1999. QH431 .R475 1999
	The Holographic Universe / Michael Talbot New York : Harper Perennial QC449 .T35 1992
	Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures / Carl Zimmer New York : Atria Books, 2002. QL757 .Z56 2000

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Food You're Eating / Jeffrey M. Smith Fairfield, IA : Yes Books, 2003 TP248.65 .F66 S64 2003

 

High Tide: the Truth about our Climate Crisis / Mark Lynas New York : Picador, 2004 QC981.8 .G56 L98 2004

 

 

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter  New York : Basic Books, 1999 QA9.8 .H63 1999

 

Jell-O: a Biography / Carolyn Wyman San Diego : Harcourt, 2001 TX814.5 .G4 W96 2001

 

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic / Randy Shilts
  New York : St. Martin's Press, 1987
  RA644 .A25 S48 1987
   
• Annals of the Former World / John McPhee
  New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998
  QE77 .M38 1998
   
• A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes / Stephen Hawking
  London : Bantam, 1988
  QB981 .H377 1988
  
  
• CHANEL / Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton
  New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005
  TT502 .K63 2005
   
• Darwin's Black Box: the Biochemical Challenge to Evolution / Michael J. Behe
  New York : Free Press, 1996
  QH325 .B365 1996
   
• The Great Influenza: the Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History / John M. Barry
  New York : Viking, 2004
  RC150.4 .B37 2004
    
• The Nose: a Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival / Gabrielle Glaser
  New York : Atria Books, 2002
  QP458 .G53 2002
  
  
• Tears of the Cheetah: and other Tales from the Genetic Frontier / Stephen J. O'Brian
  New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2003
  QH432 .O276 2003
  
• Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea / Charles Seife
  New York : Viking, 2000.
  QA141 .S45 2000
  

 

Additional Great Reads not in this Exhibit:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything / Bill Bryson
  New York : Broadway Books, 2003.
  Q162 .B88 2003
  
  
• The Spirit Catches you and you Fall Down: a Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures / Anne Fadiman
  New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997
  RA418.5 .T73 F33 1997
  
  
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory / Brian Greene
  New York : W. W. Norton, 1999
  QC794.6 .S85 G76 1999
  
  
• Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics / John Derbyshire
  Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, 2003
  QA246 .D47 2003
  
  
• The Hot Zone / Richard Preston
  New York : Random House, 1994
  RC140.5 .P74 1994

 

 

For more great reads and award-winning books, visit these sites:

Pulitzer Prize Home

National Book Foundation - The National Book Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature - List of Laureates

New York Times Best Sellers

 

 

This exhibit was created in April 2006 and designed by Carla Reeske.


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