2024 Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge - hosted by jenabest

Class 500: Science
Class 500 includes: 500 Science; 510 Mathematics; 520 Astronomy; 530 Physics; 540 Chemistry; 550 Earth Sciences & Geology; 560 Fossils & Prehistoric Life; 570 Biology; 580 Plants; 590 Animals (Zoology) 
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

9 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Sean Carroll

17 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World by Joe Roman

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Joe Roman

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Hot Zone

Dark Biology #01

Richard Preston

448 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark informative tense fast-paced
No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mt. Wilson Observatory, 1915-1935 by Sarah Simons

No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mt. Wilson Observatory, 1915-1935

Sarah Simons

120 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction science reflective medium-paced
An Atlas of Endangered Species: Stories from the Brink of Extinction—and the Fight for Survival by Megan McCubbin

An Atlas of Endangered Species: Stories from the Brink of Extinction—and the Fight for Survival

Megan McCubbin

284 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction nature science
Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

Blue Machine

Helen Czerski

464 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Astronomy Today by Steve McMillan, Eric Chaisson

Astronomy Today

Steve McMillan, Eric Chaisson

832 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history nature adventurous inspiring medium-paced