Science & Nature

Science and nature writing for curious readers. Ecology and the environment are at the centre: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life, about the hidden world of fungi. Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds explores the octopus mind, David Quammen's The Song of the Dodo evolution on islands, and Katie Mack's The End of Everything the possible ends of the universe. Andrea Wulf, Robert Macfarlane, Amitav Ghosh and David Wallace-Wells write about nature, landscape and climate. Readable, often beautiful science for non-specialists.

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Physics

Physics seeks the basic laws behind everything, from particles to the universe. Katie Mack's The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) uses the question of how the universe will end to explain some of physics' biggest ideas: gravity and the expansion of space, dark energy, the Higgs field and why it might one day trigger Vacuum Decay. Mack makes difficult physics clear and funny, without equations. A great first book for curious readers. More physics books will join this category; see Science & Nature for more.

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Biology

Life, evolution and other minds. Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds follows the evolution of intelligence in the octopus, one of the strangest minds on Earth. David Quammen's The Song of the Dodo tells how islands shaped evolution and why island species are vanishing. Peter Singer's The Expanding Circle asks how evolution gave rise to ethics. Three clear, engaging books for readers who love the living world.

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Astronomy & Space Science

Astronomy and space science explore the stars, galaxies and the universe as a whole. Katie Mack's The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) looks at the biggest question of all: how will the universe end? Mack, a cosmologist, explains five possible endings, from a Big Crunch to a Heat Death, the Big Rip and Vacuum Decay, with clear explanations and plenty of humour, and shows what each says about how the cosmos works. Perfect for curious readers with no science background. More books will join this category; see Science & Nature.

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Ecology & Environment

Books about the living world and what we are doing to it. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring started the modern environmental movement; Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction and Under a White Sky, David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth and Jeff Goodell's The Water Will Come show the scale of today's changes. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass joins Indigenous knowledge with botany, Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life explores the hidden world of fungi, and Andrea Wulf, David Quammen and Robert Macfarlane write about nature, islands and old paths. Even Dr. Seuss's The Lorax belongs here. For nature lovers and anyone worried about the planet.

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