Suggested Reading – Year 10 and 11

Biology

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins

Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins

The Descent of Men by Steve Jones

In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny by Steve Jones

Almost Like a Whale: The 'Origin of Species' Updated by Steve Jones

The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

The Language of Genes Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley

Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley

DNA: The Secret of Life by James Watson

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

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

The Rough Guide to the Brain (Rough Guides Reference Titles) by Barry Gibb

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi

The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell

This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr

Plan and Purpose in Nature by George C. Williams

The Language Instinct by Steve Pinker

The Diversity of Life by Edward O Wilson

The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leaky

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat by Oliver Sachs

What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Genome by Matt Ridley

The Spark of Life by Frances Ashcroft