Environmental Science
Non-Fiction
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau by Bill McKibben
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters by Rose George
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition by William Kamkwamba –
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at at Time by Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas Kostigen
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Humanity by Tim Flannery
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
World Without Fish by Mark Krulansky
Fiction
Exodus by Julie Bertagna
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Gardener by S. A. Bodeen
Under the Weather: Stories about Climate Change edited by Tony Bradman
Ocean Life
Non-Fiction
The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival among America’s Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Fiction
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
Of Poseidon – Anna Banks
Wake – Amanda Hocking
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Jaws – Peter Benchley
Sphere –Michael Crichton
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Genetics / Medicine
Non-Fiction
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
Spillover – David Quammen
The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are by Gina Smith
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot–
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Alison Blank, Jim Murphy
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Fiction
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Beggars in Spain – Nancy Kress
House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
Leviathan – Scott Westerfield
Never Let You Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Origin by Jessica Khoury
Placebo Junkies by JC Carleson
Shade’s Children – Garth Nix
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
The Program by Suzanne Young
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Outer Space
Non-Fiction
Above Earth With No Way Home By Chris Jones
Almost Astronauts: Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
Beyond: A Solar System Voyage by Michael Benson
Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon by
By Andrew Chaikin, Alan Bean (Illustrator)
Out of Orbit by Chris Jones
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
Fiction
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
About a Girl by Sarah McCarry
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Avalon by Mindee Arnett
Beyond Our Stars – Marie Langager
Black Hole Sun – David Macinnis Gill
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Feed by M.T. Anderson
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana
Packing for Mars: The Curious Life of Science in the Void by Mary Roach
Salvage by Alexandra Duncan
See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
Starflight by Melissa Landers
Starglass by Phoebe North
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci
General Science / the Science Community (All Non-Fiction)
A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible by Stephen Hawking
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Bad Science: Hacks, Quacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes from Great Scientists that Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—From the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers By Mary Roach
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim