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1. Almost Like a Whale by Steve Jones, Anchor
2. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, Vintage
3. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
4. Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate
5. A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate
6. Mauve: The colour that changed the world by Simon Garfield, Faber and Faber
7. The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane/Penguin Press
8. Brain Story by Susan Greenfield, BBC
9. The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson, Vintage
10. Faster: The acceleration of just about everything by James Gleick, Abacus

You might be downloading these titles onto an e-book reader soon—last
week’s Frankfurt Book Fair featured a lot of electronic book business.

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