The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene

A Short History of
Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
by James Gustave Speth

The Diversity of Life --
by Edward O. Wilson

The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives
by Ernest Zebrowski

A Brief History of Time : The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Stephen Hawking

Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson

The Naked Ape : A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris

The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick

Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee

Endurance: Shackleton's
Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
by Richard Feynman