Best Books on Science

A list of the some of the best books on science I have encountered thus far (in no particular order) -

1. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
2. Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - David Quammen
3. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
4. Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Big Bang - Simon Singh
5. The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet - David Kahn
6. Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry - Ian Stewart
7. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
8. The Voyage of the Beagle, On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
9. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
10. The Selfish Gene, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins
11. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War - Mary Roach
12. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters - Matt Ridley
13. Chaos: Making a New Science, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick
14. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance - Laurie Garrett
15. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel
16. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
17. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
18. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
19. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik
20. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean
21. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History - Thor Hansen
22. The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives - Stephen Buchmann
23. The Secret Life of Plants: a Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man - Peter Tompkins
24. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World - Peter Wohlleben
25. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses - Daniel Chamovitz
26. The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives - Stephen Buchmann
27. The Genius of Birds - Jennifer Ackerman
28. The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human - Noah Strycker
29. The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter - Colin Tudge
30. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
31. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind - V. S. Ramachandran
32. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, A Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmer
33. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality - John Gribbin
34. Bad Science, Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre
35. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World - Sean Carroll
36. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
37. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality - Manjit Kumar
38. Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe - Marcus Chown
39. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow
40. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Lewis Thomas
41. You Are Not a Gadget - Jaron Lanier
42. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
43. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy - Kip Thorne
44. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong
45. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
46. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History - Stephen Jay Gould
47. The Unnatural History of the Sea - Callum Roberts