Chemistry+reading+list

Here are some suggested titles for books with chemistry/science themes which could make good summer reading material.

Many of them are recommended by the American Chemical Society, and some by me. I have included Amazon links were possible


 * [|The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire and Phosphorous] by Jon Emsley
 * [|A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries)] by Richard Reeves
 * [|The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry] by Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle
 * [|Chasing the Molecule] by John Buckingham
 * [|Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry] by Philip Ball
 * [|The Gecko's Foot: Bio-Inspiration — Engineering New Materials and Devices from Nature] by Peter Forbes
 * [|Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin] by Robert M. Hazen
 * [|The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things] by Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf
 * [|Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)] by Madison Smartt Bell
 * [|Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World] by Simon Garfield - //I really enjoyed this one//
 * [|Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life] by John Emsley
 * [|Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z of the Elements] by John Emsley
 * [|On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen] by Harold McGee
 * [|The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements (Science Masters Series)] by Peter W. Atkins
 * [|The Periodic Table] by Primo Levi
 * [|The Poison Paradox: Chemicals as Friends and Foes] by John Timbrell
 * [|Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World] by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
 * [|Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA] by Brenda Maddox
 * [|The Same and Not the Same] by Roald Hoffman
 * [|Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures] by Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner and Melody Siegler
 * [|Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science] by Royston M. Roberts
 * [|Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers] by David A. Hopwood
 * [|Uncle Tungsten] by Oliver Sacks
 * [|Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize] by Ahmed Zewail
 * [|Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat] by Hans Christian von Baeyer
 * [|The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life] by F. M. Harold
 * [|Our Choice] by Al Gore
 * [|From Caveman to Chemist] by Hugh W. Salzberg