必读大众科学书籍清单

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必读大众科学书籍清单 

这是一份“来源大众”的大众科学书籍推荐清单。在

在几周前我写了一篇名为“你能不能推荐一本大众科学书籍？”的博客。我在寻找大众认为每一个人都应该阅读的书籍。这些你推荐的书籍应该适合那些对于科学知之甚少或者根本就从未读过科学相关书籍的人。

我把这篇博客投放了几个星期来寻求更多的推荐书目。鉴于现在已经没有推荐再被提出，我认为我应该最终将这些书籍整理到一个单子里。

我必须要强调，这不是我列的清单。我仅仅阅读过下面所列清单中的几本书（大约十本）；我个人并不能保证清单上书籍的质量。他们仅仅作为“必读书目”在博客回复中被推荐。

这是要求的摘录：

页数不要过多——如果你推荐了一本500到600页的书籍，人们可能会延期阅读他们。（我已经移除了这一条要求。如果某人认为一本书是“必读书目”那么它应该出现在清单上。同时，根据被提供书籍页码数量你可以自己决定他们对你来说是否过长了。）

适合于从未学过科学的人。

仔细想想我是否可以把这本书推荐给对<嵌入科学领域>知之甚少或一无所知的人。

这本书应该相对便宜且容易获得。

另外，当然，这绝对不是最后的清单——如果你感觉有一本书应该是在这个清单上的，请务必通过推特或者评论“你能不能推荐一本大众科学书籍？”这篇博客来让我知道。

这个清单并不存在特定的顺序——书籍从字面上是按照推荐给给我的顺序列出的，如果你最喜欢的书籍出现在清单底部别生气。

然而，出现在清单前十四本的书是被大多数人推荐的。Bill Bryson’s 的书被非常多的人推荐——甚至音频版也被推荐过。如果你从未读过科学书籍，建议你从这本开始阅读。

“必读”的大众科学书目清单（最后更新于2013年7月25日）

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson (423 pages if you ignore the notes!)

2. Bad Science - by Ben Goldacre (288 pages).

3. Your Inner Fish - by Neil Shubin (256 pages).

4. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years - by Jared M. Diamond (425 pages if you ignore the references!)

5. The Demon-haunted World - Carl Sagan (436 pages).

6. Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History- by Stephen Jay Gould (353 pages).

7. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution - by Nick Lane (352 pages).

8. The Disappearing Spoon - by Sam Kean (400 pages).

9. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - by David Quammen (592 pages).

10. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius - Graham Farmelo (560 pages).

11. The Periodic Table - by Primo Levi (224 pages).

12. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures - by Carl Zimmer (288 pages).

13. The Beak of the Finch: Story of Evolution in Our Time – Jonathan Weiner (352 pages).

14. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot (384 pages).

15. The Code Book - by Simon Singh (402 pages).

16. Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You - by Marcus Chown (224 pages).

17. The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins (384 pages).

18. Supersense: From Superstition to Religion – The Brain Science of Belief - by Bruce Hood (320 pages).

19. Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts - by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (304 pages).

20. Antimatter - by Frank Close (176 pages).

21. Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained - by Richard Feynman (176 pages).

22. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution - by Richard Fortey (256 pages).

23. Last Chance to See - by Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine (224 pages).

24. Paranormality - by Richard Wiseman (336 pages).

25. The Origin of Virtue - by Matt Ridley (302 pages).

26. How to Lie with Statistics - by Darrell Huff (128 pages).

27. The Ambidextrous Universe - by Martin Gardner (416 pages).

28. Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the message from the beginning of time - by Marcus Chown (288 pages).

29. We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe - by Marcus Chown (288 pages).

30. Nonsense on Stilts - by Massimo Pigliucci (336 pages).

31. Stiffs: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - by Mary Roach (304 pages).

32. The Left Hand of the Electron (PDF) – by Isaac Asimov (225 pages).

33. Philosophy of Science – Very Short Introductions - by Samir Okasha (160 pages).

34. Relativity – Very Short Introductions - by Russell Stannard (128 pages).

35. QED (The Strange Theory of Light and Matter) - by Richard Feynman (176 pages).

36. Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life - by Carl Zimmer (256 pages).

37. The Alchemy of Air - by Tom Hager (336 pages).

38. The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code - by Sam Kean (432 pages).

39. Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right is Wrong - by David Bradley (192 pages).

40. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life – Science Masters - by Richard Dawkins (224 pages).

41. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages - by Guy Deutscher (320 pages).

42. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences - by John Allen Paulos (160 pages).

43. Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life - by Enrico Coen (360 pages).

44. Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum - Richard Fortey (320 pages).

45. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth - by James Lovelock (176 pages).

46. Chaos: Making a New Science - by James Gleick (368 pages).

47. The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth’s Deep History - by Jan Zalasiewicz (256 pages).

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