Here are some titles that I have read, and you may find them interesting, helpful, and/or entertaining as well.  These are not required reading for the course, unless otherwise specified.

Mid-Columbia Library

Amazon.com

Kamiakin Library

The Best American Science Writing 2011 by Rebecca Skloot and Floyd Skloot

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  by Rebecca Skloot

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

There's a Hair in My Dirt: A Worm's Story by Gary Larson

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston

Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science by Patricia Fara

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey

Marie Curie by Hollie Keller

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould

The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize Geneticist by Edith Hope Fine

The Woman with the Worm in Her Head and other true stories of infectious disease by Pamela Nagami, M.D.

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules That Changed History by Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson

Guinea Pig Scientists by Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements  by Sam Kean