New On My TBR List This Month

New books I came across this summer: Part 1

I haven’t shared new books added to my TBR list since April. And, there’s a lot that has built up over the summer. So, today is part 1 of the new books I came across this summer. Open up amazon and build up that fall reading list with these great reads.

Happy reading!

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By Helen Czerski

Published October 3, 2023 from W.W. Norton

The oceans covering our planet are complex and mysterious. They play a central role in our climate and other ecological systems. This book promises to be an educational book explaining, well, how oceans work, and I’m excited to read it.

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The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

By Gunnar Broberg and Anna Paterson

Published July 2023 from Princeton University Press

I’m a sucker for good biographies on important figures, especially science figures. This book, one of the only on Linnaeus available in English, promises to share the story of the man known as the father of modern taxonomy.

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Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham

Published July 2023 from Double Day

Health care is enormously complex and confusing, especially here in the states. This book seems to be a fascinating look into all the random ways in which your health care is impacted within our system. Hopefully there’s some practical insights that can improve decision making from the patient side.

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The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter

By Peter Robin Hiesinger

Published May 2021 from Princeton University Press

The fact that our brains (and the rest of us) assembles and wires itself up from seemingly limited instruction is astounding. We start with the fusion of two cells that combine to make a genome and in an impressively short time we get 86 billion neurons that create one of the most complex things we know about. I’m curious to learn more.

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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life

By Alfonso Martinez Arias

Published August 2023 from Basic Books

“Cells” seem to be a big theme for science books this past year. This book seems to be a cross between Song of the Cell and From One Cell from what I can tell, and it looks great. I like reading similar books from different angles to see how the information overlaps, new stories are told, and get a deeper understanding.

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Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By Emily Monosson

Published July 2023 from W.W. Norton

Fungi are endlessly fascinating – and they seem to be a life form we don’t understand as well as we think we do. This book seems to be a cool cross over between fungi science and pandemic policy – and I’m interested!

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Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

By Gregory Radick

Published August 2023 from University of Chicago Press

I’m always down for a spicy science battle that uncovers layers of something as (seemingly) basic as Mendelian inheritance – a staple in biology. This is a big book and I’m hoping the story is juicy enough to justify the length.

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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

By Cara Fitzpatrick

Published September 2023 from Basic Books

This may be niche but it shouldn’t be: the political battle over public vs. private K12 touches everyone even if you don’t have children in schools. I’m a big believer in the positive impact of public education, and this seems like a great complement to A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door, which I loved.

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