Physical Science Reading List
Read one NON-FICTION book related to the Physical Science topics below and complete the
assignment.
-fiction book from the reading list created.
can also select a book that you find yourself, as long as it is related to the topics covered
in class and has been approved by your teacher.
First come first serve… once the book is chosen it is off the list for others so have a second
choice in mind.
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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis (Author)
To the Young Scientist: Reflections on Doing and Living Science by Alfred B. Bortz (Author)
What if…? Intriguing Answers for the Insatiably Curious by Marshall Brain
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Author)
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
What if the Moon Didn’t Exist? Voyages to Earths that Might Have Been by Neil F. Comins
Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie (Author), Vincent Sheean (Translator)
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are
Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats by Steve Ettlinger (Author)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
(Author), Ralph Leighton (Author)
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard
Phillips Feynman (Author)
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P.
Feynman (Author)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 by Richard Preston (Editor), Tim Folger (Series
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 by Brian Greene (Editor), Tim Folger (Series
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The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2005 by Jonathan Weiner (Editor), Tim Folger (Series
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 by Steven Pinker (Editor), Tim Folger (Series
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Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest
Scientific Discoveries by Joshua Gilder (Author), Anne-Lee Gilder (Author)
The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick and Art Huffman
18.The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry by Larry Gonick (Author), Craig Criddle (Author)
19.Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries by Michael
Hanlon (Author)
20.The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
21.Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (Author)
22.The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss
23.Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny LeCouteur (Author), Jay
Burreson (Author)
24.The _______ Murder (H, He, Li, Be, C, B, O, N) by Camille Minichino (Author)
25.Ringworld by Larry Niven
26.Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sachs (Author)
27.Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his
Time by Dava Sobel (Author)
28.Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel (Author)
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29.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Great Experiments in Physics edited by Morris Shamos
The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
The New Science of Strong Materials-- Or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor by J.E. Gordon
Without Hot Air by David MacKay
Why Should You Care What Anyone Thinks? By Richard Feynman
Don’ t be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
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Title: A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking
Genre: Science Level: Advanced
Title: Copenhagen
Author: Michael Frayn
Genre: Science (written as a play) Level: Intermediate
Title: Player Piano
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Genre: Science Fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: Nine Crazy Ideas in Science Author: Robert Ehrlich
Genre: Science Level: Intermediate
Title: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed The World
Author: Garfield Simon
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: Physics of Christmas: From Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey
Author: Roger Highfield
Genre: Science
Level: Intermediate
Title: Lucky Science: Accidental Discoveries from Gravity to Velcro Author: Jeanie Roberts
Genre: non-fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: Science in Ancient India
Author: Melissa Stewart Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Advanced
Title: The Science Class You Wish You Had
Author: Arnold Brody
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: intermediate
Title: The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays
Author: Albert Einstein Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Advanced
Title: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by it’s Most Brilliant Teachers
Author: Richard Feynman
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Advanced
Title: Universe in a Nutshell
Author: Stephen Hawking
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Advanced
Title: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Author: Michio Kaku
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: American Steel ( The Story of Nucor Steel)
Author: Richard Preston Genre: Non Fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: e: The Story of a Number
Author: Eli Maor Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium
Author: Ann E. Steinke Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Intermediate
Title: Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam, A Life in Physics
Author: John Wheeler
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Advanced
Title: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Author: Brian Greene
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Intermediate
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Earth Sciences Reading List
56. Book: Yes we have no Neutrons: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twist and Turns of Bad Science
Author: A.K. Dewdney Genre: Nonfiction
Level: Intermediate
57. Book: Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea Author: Sebastian Junger Genre: Biography
Level: Advanced
58. Book: Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel
Genre: Nonfiction
Level: Advanced
59. Book: Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Author: Simon Winchester
Genre: Nonfiction
Level: Advanced
60. Book: Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
Author: Marc Reisner
Genre: Nonfiction
Level: Advanced
61. Book: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
Author: Brian Greene
Genre: Non-fiction
Level: Intermediate