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• 1089 and All That – David Acheson *****
• 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense – Michael Brooks *****
• 1491 – Charles C. Mann *****
• A Brief History of Infinity – Brian Clegg *****
• A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking *****
• A Devil’s Chaplain – Richard Dawkins *****
• A Grand and Bold Thing – Ann Finkbeiner *****
• A Mind of Its Own – Cordelia Fine *****
• After Dolly: the uses and abuses of human cloning – Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield *****
• Atomic: the first war of physics – Jim Baggott *****
• Bad Science – Ben Goldacre *****
• Before the Big Bang – Brian Clegg *****
• Before the Fall-out – Diana Preston *****
• Being Me – Pete Moore *****
• Big Bang – Simon Singh *****
• Boffinology – Justin Pollard *****
• Brain Bugs – Dean Buonomano *****
• Broken Genius – Joel Shurkin *****
• Chaos – James Gleick *****
• Children of the Sun – Alfred W. Crosby *****
• Constant Touch – John Agar *****
• Cosmic Imagery: key images in the history of science – John D. Barrow *****
• Cosmos – Carl Sagan *****
• Creation – Adam Rutherford *****
• Dazzled and Deceived – Peter Forbes *****
• Decoding the Heavens – Jo Marchant *****
• Dice World – Brian Clegg *****
• Digging Up the Dead – Druin Burch *****
• Discoverers of the Universe – Michael Hoskin *****
• Dry Store Room No. 1: the secret life of the Natural History Museum – Richard Fortey *****
• E=mc2: A biography of the world’s most famous equation – David Bodanis *****
• Ecologic – Brian Clegg *****
• Economyths – David Orrell *****
• Einstein’s Refrigerator [A Matter of Degrees] – Gino Segre *****
• Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson *****
• Elephants on Acid – Alex Boese *****
• Eureka! The Birth of Science – Andrew Gregory *****
• Fermat’s Last Theorem [Fermat's Enigma] – Simon Singh *****
• Francis Crick – Matt Ridley *****
• From Eternity to Here – Sean Carroll *****
• Genesis – Robert M. Hazen *****
• Genome – Matt Ridley *****
• Giant Leaps: Mankind’s Greatest Scientific Advances – John Perry & Jack Challoner *****
• Gravity’s Engines – Caleb Scharf *****
• Heatstroke – Anthony D. Barnosky *****
• Higgs – Jim Baggott *****
• How to Build a Time Machine [Build Your Own Time Machine] – Brian Clegg *****
• Ignorance: How it drives science – Stuart Firestein *****
• In the Beginning was the Worm – Andrew Brown *****
• Incognito – David Eagleman *****
• Inflight Science – Brian Clegg *****
• Introducing Time – Craig Callender & Ralph Edney *****
• Just Six Numbers – Martin Rees *****
• Mathematics with Love – Mary Stopes-Roe *****
• Max Perutz and the Secret of Life – Georgina Ferry *****
• Microcosm – Carl Zimmer *****
• Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer *****
• Mutants – Armand Leroi *****
• Neutrino – Frank Close *****
• No Two Alike – Judith Rich Harris *****
• Physics for Future Presidents – Richard A. Muller *****
• Physics of the Impossible – Michio Kaku *****
• Polio: An American Story – David M. Oshinsky *****
• Q&A: Cosmic Conundrums and Everyday Mysteries of Science – Robert Matthews *****
• Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You – Marcus Chown *****
• Science: a four thousand year history – Patricia Fara *****
• Signor Marconi’s Magic Box – Gavin Weightman *****
• Space Race – Deborah Cadbury *****
• Spider Silk – Leslie Brunetta & Catherine L. Craig *****
• Stargazer’s Almanac 2013 – Bob Mizon et al *****
• Strange Angel – George Pendle *****
• Surely You Are Joking, Mr Feynman – Richard Feynman *****
• Ten Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet) – Michael Hanlon *****
• The Buzz about Bees – Jürgen Tautz *****
• The Canon – Natalie Angier *****
• The Chilling Stars – Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder *****
• The Climate Files – Fred Pearce *****
• The Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan *****
• The Disappearing Spoon – Sam Kean *****
• The Double Helix – James D. Watson *****
• The Edge of Physics – Anil Ananthaswamy *****
• The Egypt Code – Robert Bauval *****
• The Equation that Couldn’t be Solved – Mario Livio *****
• The Eternal Child – Clive Bromhall *****
• The Fabric of the Cosmos – Brian Greene *****
• The Fly in the Cathedral – Brian Cathcart *****
• The Gecko’s Foot – Peter Forbes *****
• The God Effect – Brian Clegg *****
• The God Species – Mark Lynas *****
• The Great Mathematical Problems – Ian Stewart *****
• The Hidden Reality – Brian Greene *****
• The Information – James Gleick *****
• The Knife Man – Wendy Moore *****
• The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories & Things – Surendra Verma *****
• The Lives of Ants – Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon *****
• The Long Summer – Brian Fagan *****
• The Long Tail – Chris Anderson *****
• The Long Tomorrow – Michael R. Rose *****
• The Moral Molecule – Paul J. Zak *****
• The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations – W. F. Bynum & Roy Porter *****
• The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt *****
• The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins *****
• The Story of Astronomy – Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest *****
• The Tiger that Isn’t – Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot *****
• The Time Traveller – Ronald Mallett & Bruce Henderson *****
• The Trouble with Physics – Lee Smolin *****
• The Universe in Zero Words – Dana Mackenzie *****
• The Universe Inside You – Brian Clegg *****
• The Universe Next Door – Marcus Chown *****
• Through the Language Glass – Guy Deutscher *****
• Time Reborn – Lee Smolin *****
• Trick or Treatment – Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst *****
• Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age – B. Jack Copeland *****
• We need to talk about Kelvin – Marcus Chown *****