Reading list: The Flat Book Society: Nominated Books

Created by: Portable Magic

These books have been previously nominated for the monthly group read by members of the Flat Book Society. Does not include books that have already been read by the group.

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Books: 109

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling... - Michael Brooks

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

by Michael Brooks

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A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie

by Kathryn Harkup

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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Wh... - Nancy Marie Brown

The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

by Nancy Marie Brown

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Adventures in Human Being (Wellcome)

by Gavin Francis

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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe T... - John Freely

Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

by John Freely

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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the... - Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science

by Richard Holmes

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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch th... - David Baron

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

by David Baron

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

by Chris Hadfield

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Scienc... - Chris Woodford

Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home

by Chris Woodford

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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our... - Jonathan Weiner

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

by Jonathan Weiner

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Biopunk: Kitchen-Counter Scientists Hack the Softw... - Marcus Wohlsen

Biopunk: Kitchen-Counter Scientists Hack the Software of Life

by Marcus Wohlsen

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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

by Janna Levin

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the Wo... - Michael Pollan

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

by Michael Pollan

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Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinct... - Helen Pilcher

Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction

by Helen Pilcher

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The Cell: Discovering the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future

by Joshua Z. Rappoport

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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

by Andrea Wulf

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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science

by Peter Watson

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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Inte... - Lisa Randall

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

by Lisa Randall

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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

by Rebecca Stott

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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telesc... - James Burke

The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth

by James Burke

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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield H... - Thomas Hager

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

by Thomas Hager

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The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the... - J. L. Heilbron

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

by J. L. Heilbron

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Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the Amer... - Douglas J. Preston

Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History

by Douglas J. Preston

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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

by David R. Montgomery

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Ma... - Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

by Sam Kean

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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World

by Richard C. Francis

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Earth: An Intimate History - Richard Fortey

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

by Amy Stewart

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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the W... - Amy Stewart

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

by Amy Stewart

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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's His... - David Beerling

The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History

by David Beerling

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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and... - Jill Jonnes

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

by Jill Jonnes

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of E... - Josh P. Klaiss, Jamie W. Carroll, Sean B. Carroll

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

by Josh P. Klaiss, Jamie W. Carroll, Sean B. Carroll

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The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New... - Peter Forbes

The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature

by Peter Forbes

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The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They... - Peter Wohlleben

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries From a Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben

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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard ... - Dava Sobel

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

by Dava Sobel

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The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of... - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz

The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate

by Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz

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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Mil... - Douglas H. Erwin

Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago

by Douglas H. Erwin

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Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life

by Liz Kalaugher, Matin Durrani

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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Her... - Jennifer Wright

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

by Jennifer Wright

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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our ge... - Kat Arney

Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work

by Kat Arney

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold ... - Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor

by Anthony D. Fredericks, Glenn Gauvry

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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the... - Richard Fortey

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

by Richard Fortey

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How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Th... - Linda Chalker-Scott

How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do

by Linda Chalker-Scott

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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

by Mike Brown

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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extincti... - Beth J. Shapiro

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

by Beth J. Shapiro

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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the M... - Steven Johnson

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson

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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a... - Ed Yong

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

by Ed Yong

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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New ... - Angela Saini

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini

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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolu... - Lisa Jardine

Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution

by Lisa Jardine

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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in... - Chris D. Thomas

Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

by Chris D. Thomas

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The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder,... - Sandra Hempel

The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science

by Sandra Hempel

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable... - David Whitehouse

Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart of Our World

by David Whitehouse

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Life in a Shell: A Physiologist's View of a Turtle

by Donald C. Jackson

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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Ye... - Andrew H. Knoll

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)

by Andrew H. Knoll

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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion ... - Richard Fortey

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

by Richard Fortey

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Life : an unauthorised biography : a nat...

Life : an unauthorised biography : a natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on Earth

by Richard A. Fortey

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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really Tr... - Dave McKean, Richard Dawkins

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

by Dave McKean, Richard Dawkins

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

by Oliver Sacks

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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Or... - Ian Tattersall

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Macmillan Science)

by Ian Tattersall

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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bone... - Brian Switek

My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs

by Brian Switek

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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed Histo... - Jay Burreson, Penny Le Couteur

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

by Jay Burreson, Penny Le Couteur

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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experim... - Lauren Slater

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

by Lauren Slater

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Or... - Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Oxygen: The molecule that made the world

by Nick Lane

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Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From An... - John Gaudet

Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars

by John Gaudet

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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the... - Jessica Wapner, Robert A. Weinberg

The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level

by Jessica Wapner, Robert A. Weinberg

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The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Dee... - Jan Zalasiewicz

The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History

by Jan Zalasiewicz

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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the... - Maryanne Wolf

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard P. Feynman

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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

by Cynthia Barnett

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Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things

by M.R. O'Connor

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The Riddle of the Compass - Amir D. Aczel

Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

by Britt Wray

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Met... - Laurie Winkless

Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

by Laurie Winkless

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The Science of Everyday Life - Marty Jopson

by Neal Stephenson, Margaret Atwood, Gregory Benford, Georgina Ferrey, Oliver Morton, Maggie Gee, Margaret Wertheim, Richard Fortey, John D. Barrow, Martin J. Rees, Philip Ball, Richard Holmes, Stephen H. Schneider, James Gleick, Simon Schaffer, Henry Petroski, Paul Davies,

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration i... - Sy Montgomery

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

by Sy Montgomery

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Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

by Danna Staaf

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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials T... - Mark Miodownik

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

by Mark Miodownik

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The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Li... - Bob Berman

The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

by Bob Berman

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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discov... - Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

by Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other T... - Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain

by Sam Kean

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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, P... - Thor Hanson

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

by Thor Hanson

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Unlocking the Past: How Archaeologists Are Rewriti... - Martin Jones

Unlocking the Past: How Archaeologists Are Rewriting Human History with Ancient DNA

by Martin Jones

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered... - Christie Wilcox

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

by Christie Wilcox

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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Lov... - Sam Kean

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

by Sam Kean

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The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?

by Nick Lane

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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwat... - Jonathan Balcombe

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

by Jonathan Balcombe

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What Really Happens If You're Swallowed by a Whale... - Cody Cassidy, Paul Doherty

What Really Happens If You're Swallowed by a Whale, Get Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara...and Then You're Dead

by Cody Cassidy, Paul Doherty

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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinctio... - Michael J. Benton

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

by Michael J. Benton

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Moth... - Amy Stewart

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities

by Amy Stewart

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature o... - Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

by Stephen Jay Gould

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Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One ... - Ben Mezrich

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures

by Ben Mezrich

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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eig... - Paul B. Wignall

The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinction

by Paul B. Wignall

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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Ye... - Marc Cashman, Neil Shubin

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

by Marc Cashman, Neil Shubin

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Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nigh... - Alice Robb

Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

by Alice Robb

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios 7 years ago

"Superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom.

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 7 years ago

As per Debbie's comment on the old list (http://booklikes.com/apps/reading-lists/799/flat-book-society-reading-list):

"The Riddle of the Labyrinth": http://booklikes.com/the-riddle-of-the-labyrinth-the-quest-to-crack-an-ancient-code-margalit-fox/book,9576164

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 7 years ago

Just to keep track of what we've picked as group reads (from this list, that is):

Kathryn Harkup: "A Is for Arsenic"
Ed Yong: "I Contain Multitudes"
Martin Jones: "Unlocking the Past"
Jennifer Wright: "Get Well Soon"
Sam Kean: "The Disappearing Spoon"
Liz Kalaugher & Matin Durrani: "Furry Logic"
Jay Burreson & Penny Le Couteur: "Napoleon's Buttons"

Elentarri's Book Blog 6 years ago

http://booklikes.com/why-we-dream-the-transformative-power-of-our-nightly-journey-alice-robb/book,13989382

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