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1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Doubleday/Transworld

2. Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate

3. Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire, Joseph Henry

4. Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio, Heinemann

5. Galileo’s Finger by Peter Atkins, Oxford University Press

6. DNA: The Secret of Life by James Watson, Heinemann

7. Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett, Allen Lane/Penguin

8. Our Final Century by Martin Rees, Heinemann

9. A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

10. The First 51¶¯Âþ by Brian Clegg, Constable & Robinson

Why do so few women write science books these days? Perhaps they will have time to do so once they have broken through the glass ceiling.