Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for August 2025.

Please do not nominate a book unless you have read it or you have the sincere intention to read it if it is selected.

Please use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to insert a link to the Goodreads book page for the book you are nominating, so other members can more easily assess it. Apparently this only works on the desktop version of the site; if you use the app, the link is not available yet, so just be sure to put the full title and author.

To check whether a book has been previously read or already selected to be read, check the following list: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

You may nominate a book which has been suggested previously and did not win. You may nominate more than one book, but we might not include all of your nominations in the voting.

Authors and publishers may not nominate their own books.

Please do not nominate a book which is unlikely to be available to most members, such as one which was just published within the last four months or which is only available on Kindle in the U.S. We will be checking availability more strictly than we have before. Any book nominated should be available in at least one print version (hardback and/or paperback), at least one ebook edition, and at least one audio edition.

A nominated book should have at least 500 ratings in Goodreads and it's average rating should be at least 3.5.

Nominations will close on June 22 or when we have about 7 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Pramod wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."

My Father's Brain: Life In The Shadow Of Alzheimer's looks like an interesting book. Unfortunately, so far the book has only 2 ratings on Goodreads. We would like to have 500 ratings before we consider it for a book of the month.

ok sir I will recommend new book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

We only have one nomination. I'm going to extend the nomination period to June 25.

I would like to nominate “Every Living Thing” by Jason Roberts & “How Life Works” by Philip Ball. The first is about 2 contemporaries - Carl Linnaeus & George-Louis de Buffon, who both attempted to catalogue all life on Earth, but were very different characters. The second looks at how our knowledge of biology has recently undergone quite a profound transformation and how this can be lead to new medical approaches.

Martin wrote: "I would like to nominate “Every Living Thing” by Jason Roberts & “How Life Works” by Philip Ball. The first is about 2 contemporaries - Carl Linnaeus & George-Louis de Buffon, who both attempted to..."

Thanks, Martin. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life looks good. But How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology doesn't have quite enough ratings to be eligible. Maybe in a few more months it will have more and you could nominate it again.

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

I am very drawn to this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
greetings

Cristina wrote: "I am very drawn to this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
greetings"

Yes that is a great book. I'm pretty sure this book club read it already but I can't remember when.

Cristina wrote: "I am very drawn to this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
greetings"

We read The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works for August 2024. Here is the discussion thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

Since we still need options, I'll re-nominate one I had nominated for the July poll: The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Last month's nominations were very interesting. I'd love to nominate one of them:

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick.

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

Nominations are now closed. I'll publish a poll shortly.

Please vote for the book you would like the group to read, at the following poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...

which will be open through June 29.