Summer reading should include science and technology topics. Here are a few suggestions, but we encourage you to share your recommendations with the larger ARCS community. Tell us the title, author, and brief input on why you suggest it. Email your recommendation to newsletter@arcsfoundation.org

2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Nonfiction:

“Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction” authored by David George Haskell, gives an explanation of the diverse sounds of our planet.

Books by ARCS Scholar Alums:

“Impact, How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture and Donkey Kong,” by Greg Brennecka, who is currently a staff scientist and cosmochemist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  Meteorites are full of information and more interesting than you may think.

“Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World,” coauthored by ARCS Scholar Alum Jevin West, along with Carl Bergstrom, who are both at the University of Washington.

Of course, you’ve heard of the author, speaker, astrophysicist, and ARCS Scholar Alum Neil deGrasse Tyson. His most widely-read book is “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry”, but he has authored several other books.

More Selections:

“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus is a best-selling novel that tackles obstacles for women in science in the 1960s, the chemistry of cooking, motherhood, and resilience.

“Under a White Sky” by Elizabeth Kolbert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Her previous book focused on humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, and now she examines if humanity can make the transformative changes it needs to make to save it.