While your favorite bloggers take a Thanksgiving break, you might want to check out some other science-related reading. Here are a couple of sources for your perusal:
1. Discover's 25 greatest science books of all time. Many of the classics are there. (How sad that I've only read one of the top 25 -- Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- and only two of the honorable mentions -- The Lives of a Cell, by Lewis Thomas, and Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. See what a journalism education'll get you?)
2. The 100 Greatest Science Books, a list in progress from the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology. Readers are encouraged to nominate their own favorites.
Both lists come courtesy of Confessions of a Science Librarian, who has more to say on the subject of science books.
