Books on the Nightstand discussion

Can anyone shed some light on how they interpret this category or offer suggestions as to what might qualify? All I can think of is the magazine :)

Ooh, thank you Eric! - that makes a lot of sense. Three of those were already on my TBR list!

Some good writing in this one about how uranium was enriched to weapon-grade in the 1940s.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex


Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

The John McPhee Reader or any of his other books.

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I second both Henrietta Lacks and The Sixth Extinction!

I loved A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, but my book club complained that there was "too much science". Good if you like medicine.

A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness by Victoria Costello.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Lethal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor.

Curious by Nature: One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World by Candace Savage.

Does Malcolm Gladwell count as a Popular Science writer?

This is on my bingo card this year. I was drawing a blank but there are some great suggestions on this thread. Thanks!