As readers may know, every year since 2017 I have challenged myself to read across a spectrum of science topics to maintain a broad, general knowledge. Last year, I finished the survey early, in May, but this year science was part of the same huge dip in nonfiction reading: a lot of these weren’t that ambitious, frankly. Finished up with 14 books, which is fairly meager, barely past my minimum goal of 12. Always next year, though.
Cosmology and Astrophysics
The MIlky Way: An Autobiography, Moiya McTier
Local Astronomy
The Big Backyard: The Solar System Beyond Pluto, Ron Miller
Geology, Oceanography, and Natural History
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, Steve Brusatte
Chemistry and Physics
The Science of Baseball
Cognition, Neurology, and Psychology:
Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter
Biology
DNA is Not Destiny, Steven J. Heines
Flora and Fauna
The Hidden Life of Deer, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
In the Company of Trees, Andrea Fereshsteh
Archaeology and Anthropology
The Fall of Roman Britain
Weather and Climate
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather, Melissa Harrison
Ecology
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Shape Our World, Joe Roman
Thinking Scientifically
What If? 2, Randall Monroe
Wildcard: (Science Biography, History of Science, Science and Health, or Science and Society)
Distracted by Alabama: Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore, John Seay Brown Jr
The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science, Adrian Tinniswood
Reading Freely 
That’s an impressive amount of non-fiction, even if it was less than you would like. I struggle to read any these days.
Just the science! We’ll see how the others stack up.
Eat Poop Die: if that isn’t the most factual book title ever i don’t know what is 😂
To the point!
If reading numbers were like golf, I’d totally have you beat! 🙂
Hah!
Me and nonfiction are not friends…
Nice spread……. I need to read more science, especially Space stuff….. [muses]