In the book "The Oxford book of modern science writing", edited by Richard Dawkins, the selections are from the following books (some are articles or just poems). You may want to see how many of them you can finish in 2011 in its original glory. Please comment if there are any typos and errors in the compilation.
Alan Turing:::::Computing machinery and intelligence
Albert Einstein:::::Ideas and opinions
Alister Hardy:::::The open sea
Arthur Eddington:::::The expanding universe
Barbara & George Gamow:::::Said Ryle to Hoyle
Brian Greene:::::The elegant universe
C P Snow:::::Foreword to Hardy's Apology
Carl Sagan:::::The demon-haunted world
Carl Sagan:::::Pale blue dot
Claude E Shannon & Warren Weaver:::::The mathematical theory of communication
Colin Blakemore:::::The mind machine
D'Arcy Thompson:::::On growth and form
Daniel Dennett:::::Darwin's dangerous idea
Daniel Dennett:::::Consciousness explained
David Deutsch:::::The fabric of reality
David Lack:::::The life of the robin
Donald C Johanson & Maitland A Edey:::::Lucy-Beginnings of humankind
Douglas Hofstadter:::::Godel, Escher, Bach-The eternal golden braid
Edward O. Wilson:::::The diversity of life
Ernst Mayr:::::The growth of biological thought
Erwin Schrodinger:::::What is life?
Francis Crick:::::Life itself
Francis Crick:::::What mad pursuit
Fred Hoyle:::::Man in the universe
Freeman Dyson:::::Disturbing the universe
G C Williams:::::Adaptation and natural selection
G G Simpson:::::The meaning of evolution
G H Hardy:::::A mathematician's apology
Garrett Hardin:::::The tragedy of the commons
George Gamow:::::Mr. Tompkins
George Gaylord Simpson:::::The meaning of evolution
Helena Cronin:::::The ant and the peacock
Ian Stewart:::::The miraculous jar
J A Wheeler & Kenneth Ford:::::Geons, black holes and quantum foam
J B S Haldane:::::On being the right size
J B S Haldane:::::Cancer's a funny thing
J Robert Oppenheimer:::::War and the nations
Jacob Bronowski:::::The identity of man
James Jeans:::::The mysterious universe
James Watson:::::Avoid boring people
Jared Diamond:::::The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee
John Maynard Smith:::::The importance of the nervous system in the evolution of animal flight
John Tyleer Bonner:::::Life cycles
Jonathan Kingdon:::::Self-made man
Julian Huxley:::::Essays of a biologist
Lancelot Hogden:::::Mathematics for the million
Lee Smolin:::::The life of the cosmos
Lewis Thomas:::::Seven wonders
Lewis Wolpert:::::The unnatural nature of science
Loren Eiseley:::::The immense journey
Mark Ridley:::::The explanation of organic diversity
Martin Gardner:::::The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'Life'
Martin Rees:::::Just six numbers
Matt Ridley:::::Genome
Max F Perutz:::::A passion for crystals
Nicholas Humphrey:::::One self - a meditation on the unity of consciousness
Niko Tinbergen:::::Curious Naturalists
Oliver Sacks:::::Uncle Tungsten
Paul Davies:::::The goldilocks enigma
Per Bak:::::How nature works
Peter Atkins:::::Creation revisited
Peter Medawar:::::Science and literature
Peter Medawar:::::Darwin's illness
Peter Medawar:::::The phenomenon of mind
Primo Levi:::::The periodic table
R A Fisher:::::The genetical theory of natural selection
Rachel Carson:::::The sea around us
Richard Feynman:::::The character of physical law
Richard Fortey:::::Trilobite!
Richard Fortey:::::Life - an unauthorized biography
Richard Gregory:::::Mirrors in mind
Richard Leakey & Roger Lewin:::::Origins reconsidered
Robert Trivers:::::Social Evolution
Roger Penrose:::::The emperor's new mind
Russell Stannard:::::The time and space of uncle Albert
S Chandrasekhar:::::Truth and beauty
Stephan Hawking:::::A brief history of time
Stephan Jay Gould:::::Hen's teeth and horse's toes
Steve Jones:::::The language of the genes
Steven Pinker:::::The language instinct
Steven Pinker:::::How the mind works
Steven Weinberg:::::Dreams of a final theory
Sydney Brenner:::::Theortical biology in the third millennium
Theodosius Dobzhansky:::::Mankind evolving
W D Hamilton:::::Geometry for the selfish herd
W D Hamilton:::::Narrow roads of geneland
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