The Science Book Challenge 2010 is being hosted
here. I've tried to participate every year, and have had various levels of success, in
2008 and
2009. That won't stop me from signing up again, and listing great science books I hope to read. I'm afraid I'm turning into that person that Nick Hornby worries he became: buying books because you'd like to be the person who buys and reads those books, not that those books ever actually get read. After being inspired by
Melanie, yet again (she picks the best science books, the ones that send me scurrying to the library looking for her books):
- Cold: Adventures in the world's frozen places by Bill Streever
- The Elegant Universe by Brian Green
- The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
There may be a touch of Literary Feline's
approach to book challenges for me on this one. These are the books I'd like to read.
The ones I actually read:
1.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2.
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
3.
We Need to Talk About Kelvin - Marcus Chown