NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #92 and week #14 of #GMGReads! Every night through this weird (and sad) time, I've been tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I mentioned last week that I'm going to be stopping #GMGReads at #101, which means we're down to the final ten, and so I'm going to end up hopping around a bit over the next few days. Tonight: Favorite science and nature books.
1) Sam Kean's (@sam_kean) VIOLINIST'S THUMB is a fascinating exploration of genetics: bookshop.org/books/the-viol…
2) Bill Bryson is one of my favorite authors—especially as an audio book on car rides—and his SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, basically a history of all of science and the natural world, is superb: bookshop.org/books/a-short-…
3) Elizabeth Kolbert's (@ElizKolbert) THE SIXTH EXTINCTION is as worrisome as it is readable; it'd be a delight of a book except for its message of human-caused doom: bookshop.org/books/the-sixt…
4) Two really good books about science in the Cold War: Audra Wolfe's (@ColdWarScience) FREEDOM'S LABORATORY, about science and scientists as key weapons for peace, bookshop.org/books/freedom-… and Tom Wolfe's classic epic THE RIGHT STUFF, about the space race: bookshop.org/books/the-righ…
5) Tracy Kidder's SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE is also a classic, about the early age of computing: bookshop.org/books/the-soul…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are you reading right now? What are your favorite books on science or nature? Share! #avidreadersunite
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