Freeman Dyson

Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe

by John Johnson Jr.

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

by Julian Guthrie

Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets

by Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix

All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life

by Jon Willis

The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State

by Fang Lizhi, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

by Brandon R. Brown

Einstein: His Space and Times

by Steven Gimbel

Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

by Frank Close

Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

by Graham Farmelo

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

by Mario Livio

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

by Malcolm Gladwell