Science Book Club

Location:
Zoom
If you are a reader interested in science or a scientist interested in reading, the Science Book Club would love to have you! You don’t have to be a scientist to join the group, just come with curiosity and an open mind. Each month we’ll choose and discuss non-fiction science books, and invite local scientists with expertise related to that month’s book to join us in our discussion.
The Science Book Club meets online via the Zoom platform on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
Book Club Liaisons: Katie Long and Miranda Delahoy
March/April Selection
The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Previous Selections
Slime by Ruth Kassinger
An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Secret Life of Bats by Merlin Tuttle
The Plant Hunter by Cassandra Quave
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles by David Hone
Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Sleeping Beauties by Suzanne O'Sullivan
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
Fuzz by Mary Roach
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
Dinosaurs Rediscovered by Michael Benton
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
Hello, World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
The Tangled Tree by David Quammen
The Great Indoors by Emily Anthes
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
The Sakura Obsession by Naoko Abe
Spillover by David Quammen
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Seeds of Science by Mark Lynas
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen