Best Popular Science Books of 2018

by Sang-Hee Lee

Highly accessible, consistently interesting popular science writing. Full review >

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by Menno Schilthuizen

An expert romp through urban natural history, which, despite the absence of glamorous megafauna, turns out to be a... Full review >

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by Simon Winchester

Less a work of scholarship than an enthusiastic popular-science tour of technological marvels, and readers will love the... Full review >

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by Michael S. Gazzaniga

As he has done in previous books, Gazzaniga easily draws readers into one of the most fascinating conversations taking place... Full review >

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by Michael Pollan

A trip well worth taking, eye-opening and even mind-blowing. Full review >

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by Carl Zimmer

A thoroughly enchanting tour of big questions, oddball ideas, and dazzling accomplishments of researchers searching to... Full review >

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by Richard Rhodes

Calling this a classic like Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987) may be slightly premature, but it’s definitely a... Full review >

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by David Quammen

A consistently engaging collection of vivid portraits of brilliant, driven, quarrelsome scientists in the process of... Full review >

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by Anil Ananthaswamy

Once again, Ananthaswamy delivers a book that has all the intrigue of science fiction while remaining rooted in the... Full review >

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