• Theodoric's Rainbow--Stephen Kramer
• Galileo and the Universe--Steve Parker
• Exploring the Night Sky---Terence Dickenson
• Archimedes and the Door of Science--Jeanne Bendick
• How Do You Lift a Lion?--Robert E. Wells (picture book that supports above book)
• How Science Works--Judith Hann.  Reader's Digest-- full of hands on ideas (ages 8-14)
• Hiroshima--John Hersey (Jr. High and up)
• From the Earth to the Moon: The Annotated Jules Verne--Walter James Miller
• Volcano--Patricia Lauber (Newbery winner about Mt. Saint Helens)
• Yellow and Pink--Steig (all ages) a treatise on evolution versus creation in picture book format, good for interesting discussions
• Starry Messenger--Peter Sis (about Galileo)
• A Guide to the Elements--Albert Stwertka (Jr.high through adult)
• Chaos: the Making of a New Science--James Glick (HS) also his book Genius about Feynman
• Enigma--Robert Harris (HS, about a mathematician in WWII)
• Chemical History of a Candle, Experimental Researches in Electricity--Michael Farraday (HS)
• Kon-Tiki--Thor Heyerdahl (adventure)
• Eureka! It's an Automobile--Jeanne Bendick
• The Kid's Science Book--Robert Hirschfield (Pre-K and up creative experiences for hands-on fun) also see The Kid's Nature Book --Susan Milord, 365 days of activities and experiences
• Science Crafts for Kids--Gwen Diehn, 50 things to invent and create

Biological Science

• How We are Born, How We Grow, How Our Bodies Work and How We Learn--Joe Kaufman (K-6)
• Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov
• Square Foot Gardening--Mel Bartholomew (all ages)
• How Nature Works--David Burnie (Reader's Digest) full of hands on ideas (ages 8-14)
• How the Earth Works--John Farndon (Reader's Digest) full of hands on ideas (ages 8-14)
• Double Helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA--James D. Watson (reads like a mystery for high school through adult)
• A Handbook of Nature Study--Anna Comstock (reference with teaching suggestions)
• Wild Days: Creating Discovery Journals--Karen Rackliffe
• Crinkleroot's Guides--Jim Arnosky (for the young and young at heart)
• The Amateur Naturalist: Explorations and
• Investigations--Charles E. Roth (upper elementary)
• Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art--Thomas Locker (all ages)
• Carl Linnaeus: Father of Classification--Margaret Anderson (upper elementary and up) part of the series, Great Minds of Science-- look for Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, William Harvey, Marie Curie, etc.
• A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf--John Muir (very CM)
• Walden--Henry David Thoreau (classic for HS and up) also read his essay called "Walking"
• Naming Living Things: The grouping of Plants and Animals--Sarah R. Riedman (Jr. High)
• Notebooks--Leonardo da Vinci
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat--Oliver Sacks (stories of mental illness, neurology, psychology [for thinking teens])
• Wild Animals I Have Known--Ernest Seton Thomas (not your modern naturalist)
• Hollyhock Days: Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart--by Sharon Lovejoy
• Chipmunks on the Doorstep--Edwin Tunis (good read aloud for the family)
• The Edge of the Sea--Rachel Carson (exquisite language, awe and wonder for creation, evolutionary content)
• The Childhood of Famous Americans (for 3rd-6th graders, has biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison).
• The Sower Series (5th grade and up) includes biographies of Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Morse, and Louis Pasteur. (Focus on Christian faith)
• Peterson Field Guides or Audubon Society.  Pocket Guides are useful reference tools.
• Faber Book of Science--Donald Peattie.  One hundred short, lively writings of scientists, arranged historically, for discriminating readers. (Note:  contains a strong anti-religion bias).
• Novels by Jules Verne or Arthur C. Clark