Looking for some good science reading? Here are some suggestions, mostly from the Earth Sciences. If you need motivation, let me paraphrase Mark Twain: "Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't read good books".

Allegre, C. J. 1988. The Behaviour of the Earth: Continental and Seafloor Mobility. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Allegre, C. J. 1992. From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bronowski, J. 1965. Science and Human Values . New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Crick, F. 1988. What Mad Pursuit. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series. New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Darwin, C. 1859. The Origin of Species .

Darwin, C. 1859. The Voyage of the Beagle.

Davies, P. C. W. 1992. The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis fo a Rational World. New York, NY: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Dunham, W. 1990. Journey Through Genius. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Ferris, T. 1988. Coming of Age in the Milky Way. New York, NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday.

Ferris, T. 1991. The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company.

Gould, S. J. 1979. Ever Since Darwin. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1980. The Panda's Thumb. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1981. The Mismeasure of Man. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1983. Hen's Teeth and Horse's toes. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1987. Time's arrow, time's cycle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gould, S. J. 1987. An Urchin in the Storm. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1993. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Hawking, S. W. 1988. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York, NY: Bantam Books.

McPhee, J. 1981. Basin and Range. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McPhee, J. 1983. In Suspect Terrain. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McPhee, J. 1986. Rising From the Plains. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McPhee, J. 1993. Assembling California. New York, NY: The Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Officer, C., and J. Page. 1993. Tales of the earth: paroxysms and perturbations of the Blue Planet. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Raup, D. M. 1991. Exttinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Sagan, C. 1979. Broca's Brain. New York, NY: Random House.

Sobel, D. 1995. Longitude. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Sullivan, W. 1991. Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate - 2nd Edition. New York, NY: American Institute of Physics.

Trefil, J. 1984. Meditations at the Seashore. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Trefil, J. 1986. Meditations at 10,000 Feet. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Trefil, J. 1987. Meditations at Sunset. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Trefil, J. 1989. Reading the Mind of God. New York, NY: Doubleday.

Unklesbay, A. G., and J. D. Vineyard. 1992. Missouri Geology: Three Billion Years of Volcanoes, Seas, Sediments, and Erosion. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Vogel, S. 1995. Naked Earth: The New Geophysics. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Weiner, J. 1994. The Beak of the Finch. New York, NY: Vintage Books.