Here is a small sampling of some of our favorite books about science, including fiction and non-fiction books about doing science, studying scientists, and the history of science. The list also includes books by contributors to Method Quarterly, and books referenced in each issue. Following a link on this site to purchase one of these books helps support our writing.

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Non-Fiction

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  • Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
  • Natalie Angier
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  • The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
  • Weibe Bijker, Thomas Hughes, and Trevor Pinch
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  • What is this Thing Called Science?
  • A.F. Chalmers
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  • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
  • Mike Davis
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  • The Golem: What You Should Know About Science
  • Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
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  • Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience
  • Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
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  • Objectivity
  • Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison
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  • The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
  • David Edgerton
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  • Against Method
  • Paul Feyerabend
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  • The Real World of Technology
  • Ursula Franklin
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  • How Experiments End
  • Peter Galison
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  • Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature
  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg et al.
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  • Science In Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility
  • Jane Gregory and Steven Miller
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  • Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
  • Donna Haraway
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  • Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
  • Donna Haraway
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  • Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
  • Stefan Helmreich
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  • The Century of the Gene
  • Evelyn Fox Keller
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  • A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
  • Evelyn Fox Keller
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  • Reflections on Gender and Science
  • Evelyn Fox Keller
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  • Epistemic Cultures: How Science Makes Knowledge
  • Karin Knorr-Cetina
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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Thomas Kuhn
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  • Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
  • Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar
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  • Science in Action
  • Bruno Latour
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  • Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
  • Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
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  • Towards a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube
  • Hans-jorg Rheinberger
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  • Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
  • Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer
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  • Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
  • Steven Shapin
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  • Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists
  • Sharon Traweek

Fiction

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  • Feed
  • M.T. Anderson
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  • Oryx and Crake
  • Margaret Atwood
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  • The Year of the Flood
  • Margaret Atwood
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  • MaddAddam
  • Margaret Atwood
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  • The Windup Girl
  • Paolo Bacigalupi
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  • Lilith’s Brood
  • Octavia Butler
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  • The Girl in the Road
  • Monica Byrne
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  • The Calcutta Chromosome
  • Amitav Ghosh
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  • Bird Lovers, Backyard
  • Thalia Field
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  • The Dispossessed
  • Ursula Le Guin
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  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Ursula Le Guin
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  • Ancillary Justice
  • Ann Leckie
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  • Shikasta
  • Doris Lessing
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  • The City and the City
  • China Miéville
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  • Embassytown
  • China Miéville
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  • The Female Man
  • Joanna Russ
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  • Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley
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  • The Diamond Age
  • Neal Stephenson
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  • How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
  • Charles Yu