Alex Stone-Fooling Houdini (2012)
Andrew Solomon-Far From the Tree_Parents Children and the Search for Identity (2012)
Charles Duhigg-The Power of Habit_Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2012)
Daniel Tammet-Thinking in Numbers_How Maths Illuminates Our Lives (2012)
David K Randall-Dreamland_Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep (2012)
David Quammen-Spillover_Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012)
Florence Williams-Breasts_A Natural and Unnatural History (2012)
Francis Slakey-To the Last Breath_A Memoir of Going to Extremes (2012)
Gemma Elwin Harris-Big Questions from Little People (2012)
George Dyson-Turing's Cathedral_The Origins of the Digital Universe (2012)
Ian Stewart-In Pursuit of the Unknown_17 Equations That Changed the World (2012)
John Brockman-This Will Make You Smarter_150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012)
John Glassie-A Man of Misconceptions_The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (2012)
Jonathan Fetter Vorm-Trinity_A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012)
Jon Gertner-The Idea Factory_Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (2012)
Maggie Koerth Baker-Before the Lights Go Out_Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us (2012)
Nate Silver-The Signal and the Noise_Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don't (2012)
Neil deGrasse Tyson-Space Chronicles_Facing the Ultimate Frontier (2012)
Richard Dawkins-The Magic Of Reality_How We Know What's Really True (2012)
Sean Carroll-The Particle at the End of the Universe_How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World (2012)
Steven Strogatz-The Joy of x_A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (2012)
Stuart Firestein-Ignorance_How It Drives Science (2012)
The Where, the Why, and the How_75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science (2012)
Till Roenneberg-Internal Time_Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired (2012)
Victoria Sweet-God's Hotel_A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine (2012)