Notable Reads in Science and Health

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Do you like reading about science and medicine? Are you waiting on your hold on Hope Jahren's Lab Girl or Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race to arrive? We've compiled a list of books that just might pique your interest! There are some familiar names, such as Gina Kolata [Rethinking Thin] and Dava Sobel [Galileo's Daughter]; something to interest fans of Oliver Sacks - "the poet laureate of medicine" - but perhaps not so pithy as the works of Mary Roach.


Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story by Steven Hatch M. D

Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System by Mark Thompson

Time Travel: A History by James Gleick

One Wild Bird At a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls 

Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them by Gina Kolata 

Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin 

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah 

Physics: A Short History, From Quintessence to Quarks by J.L. Heilbron  

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin  

Rise of the Rocket Girls :The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt  

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky 

 
If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James Hamblin

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer by Mary Elizabeth Williams

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France 

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

Morgue: A Life in Death by Dr. Vincent Di Maio and Ron Franscell