If you liked The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, try...

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• Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (evolution).
• Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
• Double Helix by Nancy Werlin.
• Entertaining the Elephant by William McBride
• Epileptic by David B.(graphic novel)
• Fever: 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (epidemics)
• Hot Zone by Richard Preston (viruses, epidemics).
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Cloning, medical ethics)
• Kissing Doorknobs deals with Obsessive Compulsive disorder
• Krakatoa by Winchester
• Life of Pi by Martell
• Mango Shaped Space is a story of a girl who sees in colors.
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
• The Big Year' by Mark Obmascik.
• The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury (non fiction)
• The Double Helix:  a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA  A biography of a woman scientist
• The Number Devil by Hans Enzensberger (mathematics)
• The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
• Water: a natural history by Alice Outwater (hydrology).

 

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