A pretty extensive list from The London Times, across multiple categories: science, stocking stuffers, biography, graphic novels and nature.
- Mad Science: 100 Amazing Experiments From The History Of Science by Reto Schneider
- How To Make A Tornado: The Strange And Wonderful Things That Happen When Scientists Break Free by The New Scientist
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate by Kenan Malik
- Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery Of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor by Neil Shubin
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
- What's Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science edited by Max Brockman
- A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou, art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
- The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler
- To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon by Richard Shelton
- The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee
- A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald
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