When you think of best selling books, you probably think of novels, but many bestsellers are nonfiction. The NY Times compiles a Fiction list as well as a Nonfiction list each week for the NY Times Book Review.
If you’re looking for something interesting, factual, and informative to read try one of these fascinating books about science. All are available at the Islip Public Library and all are (or recently were) on the NY Times bestselling books list.
When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi |
The Gene | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
The Wright Brothers | David McCullough |
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War | Mary Roach |
The Power of Habit | Charles Duhigg |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari |
Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande |
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli |
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking | Susan Cain |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell |
How Not to Be Wrong | Jordan Ellenberg |
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People | Mahzarin R. Banaji |
What If ? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe |
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself | Sean Carroll |
Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |
Inside of a Dog | Alexandra Horowitz |
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports | Jeff Passan |
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |