Getting Started: this month's reading list

Biological Sciences

• The Epigenetics Revolution - Nessa Carey
  
• The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee
  
• Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated - Steve Jones
  
• The Double Helix - James Watson
  
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  
• What is Life? - Erwin Schrodinger
  
• Genome - Matt Ridley
  
• Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life - Nick Lane​
  

Chemistry

• The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
  
• Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks
  
• The Poisoner’s Handbook - Deborah Blum
  

Physics

• Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life - Helen Czerski
  
• In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat - John Gribbin
  
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  
• The Trouble with Physics - Lee Smolin
  
• Quantum Strangeness - George Greenstein
  

Psychology

• Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
• The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
• The Lucifer Effect - Philip Zimbardo
• How to Change your Mind - Michael Pollan
• The Unconscious - Sigmund Freud

Philosophy of Science

• Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction - Samir Okasha
  
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper
  
• Conjectures and Refutations - Karl Popper
  
• Darwin’s Dangerous Idea - Daniel Dennett
  
• Novum Organum (extracts) - Francis Bacon
  
• The Copernican Revolution (extracts) - Thomas Kuhn