Here is a list of the books we have read as a group, plus those we are currently reading or plan to read...
| AUTHOR (Surname) | AUTHOR (First name) | TITLE | DATE DISCUSSED |
Al-Khalili |
Jim |
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can’t Predict the Future – or Can They? |
March 2018 |
Al-Khalili |
Jim |
The World According to Physics |
May 2021 |
Al-Khalili and McFadden |
Jim and Johnjoe |
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology |
January 2024 |
Atkins |
Peter |
What is Chemistry? |
November 2018 |
Barratt |
James |
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era |
September 2019 |
Barrie |
David |
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans |
July 2026 |
Barss |
Patchen |
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius |
November 2025 |
Birkhead |
Tim |
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg |
November 2022 |
Black |
Sue |
All That Remains: A Life in Death |
November 2020 |
Bohannon |
Cat |
Eve - how the female body drove 200 million years of evolution |
January 2025 |
Bowers and Roberts |
David George and Emyr Martyn |
Tides: A Very Short Introduction |
March 2023 (one of 2 books) |
Brendborg |
Nicklas |
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity |
July 2024 |
Brusatte |
Steve |
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - the untold story of a lost world |
January 2020 |
Carey |
Nessa |
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance |
November 2019 |
Chivers |
Tom |
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World |
May 2025 |
Conway |
Ed |
Material World: a substantial story of our past and future |
September 2024 |
Cox and Forshaw |
Brian and Jeff |
Why Does E=mc2 |
January 2019 |
Damasio |
Antonio |
Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious |
May 2022 |
Darwin |
Charles |
The Voyage of the Beagle |
July 2021 |
Doudna and Sternberg |
Jennifer and Samuel |
A Crack in Creation. The New Power to Control Evolution |
May 2024 |
Eagleman |
David |
The Brain. The story of you |
November 2017 |
Enders |
Giulia |
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ |
March 2019 |
Gates |
Bill |
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need |
January 2022 |
Gee |
Henry |
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction |
September 2026 |
Gertner |
Jon |
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great
|
January 2026 |
Gilbert and Green |
Sarah and Catherine |
Our Vaxxers : a pioneering moment in scientific history (2022)Vaxxers : the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus (2021) |
January 2023 |
Goldacre |
Ben |
Bad Pharma |
November 2017 |
Gribbin |
John |
Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World |
March 2020 |
Gribbin |
John |
13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything |
July 2022 |
Gribbin |
John |
Deep Simplicity: chaos, complexity and the emergence of life |
September 2025 |
Haran |
Yuhal Noah |
Sapiens |
September 2017 |
Holgate |
Sharon Ann |
Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth |
May 2026 |
Kahneman |
Daniel |
Thinking, Fast and Slow |
September 2020 |
Kemp |
Christopher |
Dark and Magical Places : the neuroscience of how we navigate |
July 2023 |
Lane |
Nick |
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution |
September 2023 |
Leighton |
Ralph |
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character |
July 2018 |
Levin |
Janna |
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space |
July 2019 |
Lyman |
Monty |
The Remarkable Life of the Skin |
May 2020 |
Miodownik |
Mark |
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives |
January 2021 |
Mukherjee |
Siddhartha |
The Gene. An Intimate History |
May 2018 |
Nicolson |
Adam |
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore (originally called The Sea is Not Made of Water) |
March 2023 (one of 2 books) |
Parker |
Matt |
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry |
July 2025 |
Parkin |
Simon |
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad |
November 2025 |
Pretor-Pinney |
Gavin |
The Cloudspotter's Guide |
March 2024 |
Ritchie |
Stuart |
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science |
March 2021 |
Rovelli |
Carlo |
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science |
March 2025 |
Sheldrake |
Merlin |
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future |
November 2021 |
Singh |
Simon |
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking |
November 2023 |
Skloot |
Rebecca |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
September 2021 |
Sobel |
Dava |
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time |
November 2024 |
Spiegelhalter |
David |
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data |
March 2022 |
Strogatz |
Steven |
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe |
July 2020 |
Walker |
Matthew |
Why We Sleep |
Sept 2018 |
Weatherall |
James Owen |
Void: the Strange Physics of Nothing |
May 2023 |
Winchester |
Simon |
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World |
Sept 2022 |
Wohlleben |
Peter |
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate |
May 2019 |
Yong |
Ed |
An Immense World: How Animal Senses
|
March 2026 |
