The Science & Technology Award Index

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong · 2022

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2011

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter · 1979

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder · 2011

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant · 2023

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Sherwin B. Nuland · 1995

The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time

Jonathan Weiner · 2014

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

Richard Holmes · 2009

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Jason Roberts · 2024

Fathoms: The World in the Whale

Rebecca Giggs · 2020

How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker · 2003

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events

René Dubos · 1998

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Carl Sagan · 1977

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick · 2011

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

Lewis Thomas · 1995

The Mismeasure of Man

Steven J. Gould · 2014

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold · 2018

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Jonathan Weiner · 2003

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

Luke Dittrich · 2016

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson · 2005

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee · 2000

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

William W. Warner · 2026

Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III

Robert Coles · 2007

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

Karen Hao · 2025

God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion

Norbert Wiener · 1966

Interpretation of Schizophrenia

Silvano Arieti · 1974

Leviathan or, The Whale

Philip Hoare · 2008

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey · 1990

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently

Steve Silberman · 2017

On Human Nature

Edward O. Wilson · 1978

Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists

Fred Alan Wolf · 2010

The Ants

Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson · 1990

The Blue Whale

George L. Small · 1971

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

Charles Rosen · 2016

The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics

Gary Zukav · 2012

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

Richard Hamblyn · 2002

The Last Whole Earth Catalogue

Stewart Brand (editor) · 2008

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Lewis Thomas · 1978

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould · 1982

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson · 1951

The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations

George B. Schaller · 2009

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Bruno Bettelheim · 2010

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin · 2013

Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American Winter

Edwin Way Teale · 2024

Why Survive?: Being Old in America

Robert N. Butler · 2009

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould · 2014

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Zach Weinersmith and Kelly Weinersmith · 2025

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky · 2017

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Linda Villarosa · 2022