Science-Book Challenge 2009

| valign="top" align="left"  | tentatively:<br>Mick O'Hare, ''Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? : And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions''<br>Bill Bryson, ''A Short History of Nearly Everything''<br>Len Fisher, ''How to Dunk a Doughnut : The Science Of Everyday Life''

| valign="top" align="left"  | ''Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know'' by Dr. Joe Schwarcz<br>''Hawaiian Insects and their Kin'' by F. G. Howarth and W. P. Mull<br>''Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded'' by Simon Winchester<br>''Mars, the Red Planet'' by Isaac Asimov<br>''Roadside Geology'' of Hawaii by Richard W. Hazlett and Donald W. Hyndman<br>''The Blind Watchmaker'' by Richard Dawkins<br>''The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense'' by Michael Shermerer<br>''The Voyage of the Beagle'' by Charles Darwin

| valign="top" align="left"  | ''The Story of God'' by Robert Winston <br> ''The Force'' by Lynne McTaggart <br> ''God and the New Physics'' by Paul Davies <br> ''Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments'' by Alex Boese <br> ''Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor'' by Neil Shubin <br> ''What the Bleep do we Know?'' by William Arntz and Betsy Chasse <br> ''The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space : 42 Questions (and Answers) about Life, the Universe, and Everything'' by Jim Lebans