Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo Marchant (Canongate, 2016)
Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability by Rowan Hooper (Little, Brown, 2018)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (Sceptre, 2018)
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson (John Murray, 2018)
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli (Penguin, 2016)
Man Who Wasn’t There: Tales From The Edge Of The Self by Anil Ananthaswamy (Penguin, 2016)
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong (Bodley Head 2016)
The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics that Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability and the New Physics of the Universe by Michael Brooks (Scribe 2017)
Unbelievable Science: Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind by Colin Barras (Sterling 2018)
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything by Marcus Chown (W&N 2018)
Beyond Weird by Philip Ball (Vintage 2018)
Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter (Rough Cut 2014)
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan (Allen Lane 2018)