Suggested Books for Learning about Science
     Original list complied by Mark Heilbrunn, Frank Sinatra High School, New York City
     Additional titles added based on suggestions to the ES List Server

Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller and Borin Van Loon
Oh, Yuck--the Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
The Andromeda Strain
A Brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Time- Stephen Hawking
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
A Child is Born
A Field Guide to Germs by Wayne Biddle
A Gebra Named Al by Wendy Isdell
A Hair in my Dirt by Gary Larson
Air Apparent--Mark Monmonier
Alaska by James Michener
Annals of the Former World- John McPhee
Barren Lands; An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic
Beyond the Hundreth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West- Wallace
Bob Bakker's "Dinosaur Heresies"
Carl Zimmer's "Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea"
Chasing the Monsoon, by Alistair Fraser
Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
Coal: A Human History- Barbara Freese
Coming of Age in the Milky Way, by Timothy Ferris
Control of Nature, Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrane, Assembling California, Encounters with the Archdruid, others by John McPhee
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Deep, Hot Biosphere" by Thomas K. Gold
Denial of Disaster by Gladys Hansen
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Devastation on the Delaware
Diamond: The History of a Cold Blooded Love Affair- Matthew Hart
DK Eyewitness books
Domain by Steve Alten
Dougal Dixon's "After Man"
Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick
Earth by David Brin
Earth--An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
Earth from Above--Claire Parkinson
Ecology and Management of the Whitetailed Deer (Stackpole books)
Ecology and Management of the Wild Turkey (Stackpole Books)
EVOLUTION, THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEA by Carl Zimmer
Explorabook
Fault line by Sarah Andrews
Flatland
From Conception to Birth
Galileo's Daughter by Dana Sobel
Gray's Anatomy
Grossology
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox by Stephen J Gould
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage- Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Icefire by Judith Revees-Stevens
Impact Jupiter: The Crach of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9- David Levy
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster- by Jon Krakauer
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History- Larson, Erik, and Isaac Monroe Cline
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.
Killer Dust by Sarah Andrews
Killer Germs by Barry and David Zimmerman
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883- Simon Winchester
Last Train to Paradise, Les Standiford
Lives of a Cell-Lowell Thomas
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time- Dava Sobel
Meg by Steve Alten
Mistaken Extinction by Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe
Mother of all storms
Noah's Flood: New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History- Walter Pitman and Bill Ryan (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Panda's Thumb by Stephen J Gould
Pine Barrens by McPhee
Richter 10
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America- John Barry
Roadside Geology of New York State
Rock of Ages by Stephen J Gould
Sea Change:A Message of the OceansÊSylvia Earle
Seeing in the Dark- Timothy Ferris
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life A.G. Cairns-Smith
Simon and Schuster Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe that Spawned Life as We Know It- Gabrielle
Stiff - the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
Storm of the Century, the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, William Drye
Stranger in a Strange Land
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!- Richard Feynman
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
The Coldest March by Susan Solomon
The Coming Plague,
The Day the Universe Changed -- revised edition by James Burke
The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
The Double Helix by Watson
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson  (not an obvious choice, but there are quite a few "aerologic" processes discussed that are relevant to Earth Science)
The Monk in the Garden
The Perfect Storm- Sebastian Junger
The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
T-Rex and the Crater of Doom- Walter Alvarez
USA Today Weather Book--Jack Williams
Vulcan's Forge by Jack B. Du Brul
When Life Nearly Died (The Permian Extinction) - Michael J. Benton
Wonderful Life- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History- Stephen Jay Gould

Suggestions from Paul Nevergold:
Volcano Cowboys --Dick Thompson
Barren Lands -- Kevin Krajick
Snowball Earth -- Gabrielle Walker
Diamond -- Matthew Hart
Collapse -- Jared Diamond
The Assault on Reason -- Al Gore