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 Literature for Science Mathematics 
Reading List

  • From the California Department of Education’s Recommended Reading List

  • Aligned with Math and Science Content Area Standards

  • Click on the hotlink (the title of each book) to see the standard(s) addressed by each book.   

  • These are the books that WE DO HAVE in the LHHS Library

  •  Included is also a listing of some books donated to the LHHS Library by Mr. Crocker.

  • Thanks to student Elizabeth Dominguez for helping to compile this list.

Please consider these books for pleasure reading!

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Author

Call Number

Title

1

Abbott, Edwin A. 

513 Abbott

Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions

3

Ackerman, Diane 

612.8 Ackerman

Natural History of the Senses, A

5

Aczel, Amir D. 

512 Aczel

Fermat's Last Theorem

9

Adams, Douglas 

SF Adams

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The

10

Adams, Douglas 

591.52 Adams

Last Chance to See

11

Adamson, Joy 

599 Adamson

Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

12

Alvarez, Walter 

576.84 Alvarez

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

14

Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Fic Anderson

Fever, 1793

21

Asimov, Isaac 

PB SF Asimov

Fantastic Voyage

22

Asimov, Isaac 

SF Asimov

Foundation

23

Asimov, Isaac 

SF Asimov

I, Robot

25

Atkins, P. W. 

541.2 Atkins

Periodic Kingdom, The

28

Ballard, Robert D. 

551.46 Ballard

Eternal Darkness, The

34

Beckmann, Petr 

510.71 Beckmann

History of Pi, A

40

Blatner, David 

516.22 Blatner

Joy of Pi, The

41

Bodanis, David 

530.11 Bodanis

E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

48

Bradbury, Ray 

SF Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

49

Bradbury, Ray 

SF Bradbury

Illustrated Man, The

50

Bradbury, Ray 

SF Bradbury

Martian Chronicles

51

Bradbury, Ray 

SF Bradbury

R Is for Rocket

55

Brockman, John 

500 Brockman

Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution

64

Cantor, Norman 

641.5 Cantor

In the Wake of the Plague

66

Caprara, Giovanni 

629.44 Caprara

Living in Space

68

Card, Orson Scott 

SF Card

Ender's Game

69

Carson, Rachel L. 

551.46 Carson

Sea Around Us, The

70

Carwardine, Mark 

591.52 Adams

Last Chance to See

73

Clancy, Tom 

FIC Clancy Mistery

Hunt for Red October

74

Clarke, Arthur C. 

PB SF Clark

2001: A Space Odyssey

75

Clarke, Arthur C. 

PB SF Clark

Childhood's End

77

Clarke, Arthur C. 

PB SF Clark

Rendezvous with Rama

81

Cook, Robin 

PB FIC Cook Mystery

Acceptable Risk

82

Cook, Robin 

PB FIC Cook Mystery

Toxin

83

Cook, Robin 

PB FIC Cook Mistery

Vector

84

Cooney, Miriam P. 

REF 925 Cooney

Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science

87

Crichton, Michael 

SF Crichton

Andromeda Strain, The

88

Crichton, Michael 

SF Crichton

Jurassic Park

89

Crichton, Michael 

SF Crichton

Terminal Man, The

96

Darwin, Charles 

PB 575.8 Darwin

Origin of Species, The

100

Davis, Margaret Leslie 

979.4 Davis

Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

103

Dewdney, A. K. 

510 Dewdney

200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy

106

Diamond, Jared 

303.4 Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

108

Dickinson, Peter 

FIC Dickinson

Eva

110

Dominick, Andie 

921 Dominick

Needles

116

Ehrlich, Robert 

500 Ehrlich

Nine Crazy Ideas in Science

121

Fadiman, Clifton 

808.8 Fadiman

Mathematical Magpie, The

122

Farmer, Nancy 

FIC Farmer

Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, The

123

Farrell, Jeanette 

616.9 Farrell

Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease

124

Feinberg, Anna 

FIC  Feinberg

Borrowed Light

125

Ferris, Timothy 

523.1 Ferris

Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report, The

126

Feynman, Richard P. 

500 Feyman

Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman, The

127

Feynman, Richard P. 

530 Feyman

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

128

Feynman, Richard P. 

530.092 Feyman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

131

Fisher, Richard V. 

921 Fisher

Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist

135

Fleischman, Paul 

811 Fleischman

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

138

Fouts, Roger 

921 Fouts

Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees

140

Freedman, Russell 

920 Freedman

Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, The

146

Gerrold, David 

FIC Gerrold

Jumping Off the Planet

156

Gould, Steven 

153.9 Gould

Mismeasure of Man, The

163

Guillen, Michael 

510 Guillen

Bridges to Infinity

174

Heinlein, Robert A. 

SF Heinlen

Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The

175

Heinlein, Robert A. 

SF Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land

181

Herbert, Frank 

SF Herbert

Dune

183

Hickam, Homer H. 

921 Hickman

Rocket Boys (October Sky)

196

Huxley, Aldous 

SF Huxlex

Brave New World

201

Junger, Sebastian 

974.4 Junger

Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, The

204

Kaplan, Robert 

511.2 Kaplan

Nothing that Is, The

208

Kesselring, Joseph 

HellPlay File, Play

Arsenic and Old Lace

209

Keyes, Daniel 

SF Keyes

Flowers for Algernon

210

Klass, David 

FIC Klass

California Blue

212

Krakauer, Jon 

917.9804 Krakauer

Into the Wild

213

Krakauer, Jon 

796.5 Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

220

Laskin, David 

551.6973 Laskin

Braving the Elements

230

Lewis, Thomas 

501 Thomas

Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, The

233

London, Jack 

FIC London

Call of the Wild

234

London, Jack 

SC London

To Build a Fire and Other Stories

243

Matthews, Anne 

577.5 Matthews

Wild Nights

246

McPhee, John 

557.94 McPhee

Assembling California

247

McPhee, John A. 

634.31 McPhee

Oranges

249

Michener, James A. 

FIC Michener

Centennial

250

Miller, Walter M. 

FIC Miller/ SF PB

Canticle for Leibowitz

252

Mlodinow, Leonard 

516 Mlodinow

Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

255

Mowat, Farley 

998 Mowat

People of the Deer

256

Muir, John 

917.94 Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra

258

Mulcahy, Robert 

920 Mulcahy

Medical Technology: Inventing the Instruments

259

Murphy, Jim 

977.3 Murphy

Great Fire

262

Niven, Larry 

PB SF Niven

Lucifer's Hammer

263

Niven, Larry 

PB SF Niven

Mote in God's Eye, The

270

Orwell, George 

PB SF Orwell

1984

280

Paulos, John Allen 

510 Paulos

Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, A

281

Paulos, John Allen 

519.5 Paulos

Once Upon a Number

282

Paulsen, Gary 

PB FIC Paulsen Teen

Canyons

283

Paulsen, Gary 

PB FIC Paulsen Teen

Hatchet

284

Paulsen, Gary 

PB FIC Paulsen

Voyage of the Frog, The

286

Peterson, Brenda 

921 Peterson

Build Me an Ark

299

Preston, Richard 

614.57 Preston

Hot Zone, The

305

Rapp, Adam 

SF Rapp

Copper Elephant, The

311

Ridley, Matt 

599.93 Ridley

Genome

316

Robinson, Kim Stanley 

SF Robinson

Red Mars

318

Sagan, Carl 

SF Sagan

Contact

328

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 

PB FIC Shelley Classics

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

331

Shute, Nevil 

FIC Shute

On the Beach

336

Simon, Anne 

570 Simon

Real Science Behind the X-Files, The

338

Singh, Simon 

512 Singh

Fermat's Enigma

343

Sobel, Dava 

921 Galileo

Galileo's Daughter

344

Sobel, Dava 

921 Harrison

Longitude

351

Stevens, William Kenneth 

551.5 Stevens

Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate, The

359

Trefil, James S. 

500 Trefil

101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either

361

Trueman, Terry 

FIC Trueman

Stuck in Neutral

362

Tyson, Neil De Grasse 

921 Tyson

Sky Is Not the Limit, The

364

Verne, Jules 

SF Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

366

Watson, James D. 

574.8 Watson

Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, The

367

Weaver, Will 

FIC Weaver

Memory Boy

370

Wells, H. G. 

SF Wells

Time Machine, The

371

Wells, H. G. 

SF Wells

War of the Worlds, The

377

Winchester, Simon 

550.92 Winchester

Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, The

378

Winick, Judd 

PB FIC Winick

Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned

380

Yount, Lisa 

920 Yount

Twentieth-Century Women Scientists

383

Zimmer, Carl 

591.7 Zimmer

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

384

Zindel, Paul 

812.54 Zindel

Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The

 

Some of Bruce Crocker’s Generous Library Donations: 

PB                     Bronowski, Jacob,

501                        Science and human values : rev. ed. with a new dialogue, The abacus and

Bronowski         the rose / by J. Bronowski.

                              New York : Perennial Library, 1972, c1965.

                             

 

PB                     Abbott, Edwin Abbott,

513                        Flatland : a romance of many dimensions / with illus. by the author, A

Abbott               Square (Edwin A. Abbott) ; with an introduction by A. K. Dewdney.

                              New York : New American Library, 1984.

                             

 

PB                     Clark, Ronald W.,

921                        The survival of Charles Darwin : a biography of a man and an idea / Ronald

Darwin              W.Clark. --.

                              New York : Avon Books, 1986, c1984.

                             

 

PB                     Clark, Ronald William.

921                        Einstein : the life and times / [by] Ronald W. Clark.

Einstein                 New York : Avon Books, [1984].

                             

 

PB                     Sobel, Dava.

921                        Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest

Harrison            scientific problem of his time / Dava Sobel.

                              New York : Penguin Books, 1995.

                              Reading Program:  Reading Counts RC, RL: 11.0, Points: 12.0.

 

 

PB                     Andrews, Sarah.

FIC                        Mother nature / Sarah Andrews.

Andrews                New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997.

Mystery                  

 

 

PB                     Andrews, Sarah.

FIC                        Only flesh and bones / Sarah Andrews.

Andrews                New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1999, c1998.

 

PB

FIC                    Andrews, Sarah.

Andrews                Tensleep / Sarah Andrews.

Mystery                  New York : Penguin Books, c1995.

                             

PB

FIC                    Andrews, Sarah.

Andrews                A fall in Denver : an Em Hansen mystery / Sarah Andrews.

Mystery                  New York : Signet, c1995.

                             

 

179.1                  Nash, Roderick.

Nash                      The rights of nature : a history of environmental ethics / Roderick Frazier

                          Nash.

                              Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1989.

                             

 

303.48                Tenner, Edward.

Tenner                  Why things bite back : technology and the revenge of unintended

                          consequences / Edward Tenner.

                              New York : Knopf, 1996.

                             

 

303.48                Zimmerman, Michael,

Zimmerman           Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy /

                          Michael Zimmerman.

                              Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

                             

 

307.76                Kotkin, Joel.

Kotkin                    The new geography : how the digital revolution is reshaping the American

                          landscape / Joel Kotkin.

                              New York : Random House, c2000.

                             

 

323.44                Brin, David.

Brin                       The transparent society : will technology force us to choose between

                          privacy and freedom? / David Brin.

                              Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1998.

                             

 

344.73                Wise, Steven M.

Wise                      Rattling the cage : toward legal rights for animals / Steven M. Wise ;

                          foreword by Jane Goodall.

                              Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c2000.

                             

 

347.067              Huber, Peter W.

Huber                    Galileo's revenge : junk science in the courtroom / Peter W. Huber.

                              [New York, N.Y.] : Basic Books, c1991.

                             

 

363.1                  Chiles, James R.

Chiles                    Inviting disaster : lessons from the edge of technology : an inside look at

                          catastrophes and why they happen / James R. Chiles.

                              New York : HarperBusiness, c2001.

                             

 

500                    Friedlander, Michael W.

Friedlander           At the fringes of science / Michael W. Friedlander.

                              Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.

                             

 

500                   

Kaplan                  Science says : a collection of quotations on the history, meaning, and

                          practice of science / edited by Rob Kaplan.

                              New York : W.H. Freeman, 2000.

                              Reading Program:  Feb 2003.

 

 

508                    Dillard, Annie.

Dillard                   Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard.

                              New York : Harper & Row, 1982.

                             

 

509.4                  Lindberg, David C.

Lindberg               The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in

                          philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 /

                          David C. Lindberg.

                              Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

                              Reading Program:  Feb 2003.

 

509.73                Bruce, Robert V.

Bruce                    The launching of modern American science, 1846-1876 / by Robert V. Bruce.

                              New York : Knopf : 1987.

                              Reading Program:  Feb 2003.

 

 

510                    Stewart, Ian.

Stewart                 Nature's numbers : the unreal reality of mathematics / Ian Stewart.

                              New York : BasicBooks, c1995.

                             

 

523.1                  Ferris, Timothy.

Ferris                     The whole shebang : a state-of-the-universe(s) report / Timothy Ferris.

                              New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.

                             

523.1                 

Hawking                Stephen Hawking's A brief history of time : a reader's companion / edited

                          by Stephen Hawking ; prepared by Gene Stone.

                              New York : Bantam Books, c1992.

                             

 

523.43                Wilford, John Noble.

Wilford                  Mars beckons : the mysteries, the challenges, the expectations of our next

                          great adventure in space / by John Noble Wilford.

                              New York : Knopf, 1990.

                             

 

530                    Feynman, Richard Phillips.

Feynman               Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant

                          teacher / Richard P. Feynman ; originally prepared for publication by Robert

                          B. Leighton and Matthew Sands; new introduction by Paul Davies.

                              Reading, Mass. : Helix Books, c1995.

                             

 

530.11                Gott, J. Richard.

Gott                       Time travel in Einstein's universe : the physical possibilities of travel

                          through time / J. Richard Gott, III.

                              Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.

                             

 

530.11                Feynman, Richard Phillips.

Hatfield                 Feynman lectures on gravitation / Richard P. Feynman, [based on notes by]

  Fernando B. Morinigo, William G. Wagner ; edited by Brian Hatfield ; with a foreword by John Preskill and Kip S. Thorne.  Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995.

                             

 

546                    Ball, Philip,

Ball                       The ingredients : a guided tour of the elements / Philip Ball.

                              Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.

                              Reading Program:  Feb 2003.

 

 

550.92                Winchester, Simon.

Winchester            The map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern

                          geology / Simon Winchester.

                              New York : Perennial, 2002.

                             

 

551.57                Hamblyn, Richard,

Hamblyn                The invention of clouds : how an amateur meteorologist forged the

                          language of the skies / Richard Hamblyn.

                              New York : Picador, 2002, c2001.

                              Reading Program:  Feb 2003.

 

 

569.9                  Johanson, Donald C.

Johanson              Lucy, the beginnings of humankind / Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A.

                          Edey.

                              New York, NY : Warner Books, [1982] c1981.

                             

569.9                  Johanson, Donald C.

Johanson              Lucy's child : the discovery of a human ancestor / Donald Johanson and

                          James Shreeve.

                              New York : Hearst, 1989.

                             

 

574.8                  Watson, James D.,

Watson                  The double helix : a personal account of the discovery of the structure of

                          DNA / by James D. Watson.

                              New York : W. W. Norton, 1980.

                             

 

576.8                  Jones, Steve,

Jones                    Darwin's ghost : the origin of species updated / Steve Jones.

                              New York : Random House, c2000.

                            

576.8                  Koerner, David.

Koerner                 Here be dragons : the scientific quest for extraterrestrial life / David

                          Koerner, Simon LeVay.

                              New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.                            

 

576.8                  Pennock, Robert T.

Pennock                Tower of Babel : the evidence against the new creationism / Robert T.

                          Pennock.

                              Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.

                          

599.82                Strum, Shirley C.,

Strum                    Almost human : a journey into the world of baboons / Shirley C. Strum ;

                          drawings by Deborah Ross.

                              New York : Random House, 1987.

                             

631.4                  Logan, William Bryant.

Logan                    Dirt : the ecstatic skin of the earth / William Bryant Logan.

                              New York : Riverhead Books, 1995.

                             

912.09                Wilford, John Noble.

Wilford                  The mapmakers. / by John Noble Wilford.

                              New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

                             

921                    Eiseley, Loren C.,

Bacon                    The man who saw through time / [by] Loren Eiseley.

                              New York : Scribner, [1973]

 

921                    Consolmagno, Guy,

Consolmagno        Brother astronomer : adventures of a Vatican scientist / Guy Consolmagno.

                              New York : McGraw-Hill, c2000.                        

 

921                    Medawar, P. B.

Medawar               Memoir of a thinking radish : an autobiography / Peter Medawar.

                              Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1988, c1986.                           

 

921                    Tyson, Neil De Grasse.

Tyson                    The sky is not the limit : adventures of an urban astrophysicist / Neil de

                          Grasse Tyson.

                              New York : Doubleday, 2000.                           

925                   

Lederman             Portraits of great American scientists / edited by Leon M. Lederman and

                          Judith Scheppler.

                              Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.

                              Reading Program:  Feb 2003.

 

936.2                  Wainwright, Geoffrey.

Wainwright           The Henge monuments : ceremony and society in prehistoric Britain /

                          Geoffrey Wainwright.

                              London : Thames and Hudson, 1989.

                             

973.3                  Cohen, I. Bernard,

Cohen                   Science and the founding fathers : science in the political thought of

                          Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison / I. Bernard Cohen.

                              New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.                 

               

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