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Once again, we've brought together a couple of pop science book lovers – welcome back to guests John Dupuis and Mary Brock – and had a conversation about what we loved reading this year. Not all of the books below were released in 2016, but nearly all of them have been released in the last couple of years, and all of them are sure to delight science nerds.

Below is a list of the science books discussed during the panel. Enjoy!

Mary Brock

• Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
• Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed Historya> by Sam Maggs
• Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
• Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey
• The Unfinished World: And Other Stories by Amber Sparks
• Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
• Prairie Dog Song: The Key to Saving North America's Grasslands by Susan Roth & Cindy Trumbore
• Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor by Robert Burleigh & Raúl Colón
• Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle by Cheryl Bardoe & Alan Marks
• Equal Shmequal by Virginia Kroll & Philomena O'Neill

Not metioned, but also recommended:

• Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

John Dupuis

• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
• The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club by Eileen Pollack
• The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy by Michael Mann
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
• Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown
• Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown
• The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe by Stephon Alexander
• The Disgusting Critters Series by Elise Gravel
  • The Fly
  • Head Lice
  • The Rat
  • The Slug
  • The Spider
  • The Toad
  • The Worm
• Tu mourras moins bête by Marion Montaigne

Not metioned, but also recommended:

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
• The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It by Shawn Lawrence Otto
• The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly