Best Science Books 2010: Vancouver Sun, Largehearted Boy, Slate, Boston Globe

Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.

Vancouver Sun

  • Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit by Loren Steffy
  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman
  • The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Largehearted Boy

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot


Slate

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot


Boston Globe

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Travels in Siberia by Ian Fraser

I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.

I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.

Earlier entries in this year's list of lists can be found here and the 2009 summary post here.

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