The Non-Fiction One 2021 - hosted by charlieeee

The Science One
Read a book on any science topic you’re interested in: psychology; mathematics; chemistry; the science of swearing; death; natural history; the ocean; SPACE.

It doesn’t need to be a dense academic text - anything science goes!
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Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle by Lukas Rieppel

Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

Lukas Rieppel

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

336 pages | first published 2019

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang

nonfiction essays memoir psychology challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

208 pages | first published 2019

The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter

The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data

David Spiegelhalter

nonfiction business mathematics science informative slow-paced

448 pages | first published 2019

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

nonfiction health science informative fast-paced

214 pages | first published 2020

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

nonfiction health science reflective slow-paced

450 pages | first published 2019

Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite by Andrew Jenkinson

Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite

Andrew Jenkinson

nonfiction health informative reflective slow-paced

331 pages | first published 2020

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

nonfiction history memoir philosophy psychology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

165 pages | first published 1946

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

nonfiction biography memoir nature science adventurous informative slow-paced

368 pages | first published 2020

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

nonfiction science adventurous fast-paced

303 pages | first published 2014

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

Richard Mabey

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective slow-paced

384 pages | first published 2016