The material world

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

Narrative non-fiction

Biomimicry

Janine M. Benyus

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

The Song of the Cell

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Katie Mack

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates

The Best American Science Writing 2012

Jesse Cohen

Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas

Henri J. Dumont

Oceanology of China Seas

Liang Yan-Bo

Cobalt Red

Siddharth Kara