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1. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media

2. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam

3. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, Belknap Press

4. I Have Landed by Stephen Jay Gould, Harmony

5. Linked: The new science of networks by Albert-László Barabási, Perseus

6. Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant, Simon & Schuster

7. Complications by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan

8. The Prophet and the Astronomer by Marcelo Gleiser, W W Norton

9. Mapping Human History by Steve Olson, Houghton Mifflin

10. Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Atul Gawande’s twin professions – surgery and writing – echo those of Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. But Gawande’s turf is fact, not fiction. The physicality of his writing mirrors that of a bloody episode of ER, but mistakes happen more than just once a series.