Darwin's Island
by Steve Jones | 
Y: The Descent of Men
by Steve Jones | 
The Serpent's Promise
by Steve Jones | 
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson | 
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande | 
What If?
by Randall Munroe | 
Godel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas R. Hofstadter | 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot | 
Stiff
by Mary Roach | 
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking | 
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell | 
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins | 
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins | 
Why We Sleep
by Matthew Walker | 
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan | 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman | 
The Demon-Haunted World
by Carl Sagan | 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks | 
The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston | 
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Containing anecdotes, facts and humour, this work uses 20th-century science to update the theories presented in Darwin's The Origin of Species.