Holiday reads: Top scientists and writers share their must-read books

From sci-fi classics to important non-fiction, a few of the brightest minds in science, together with Sarah Gilbert and Jim Al-Khalili, share their high picks for vacation studying
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22 July 2022
L to R: Jim Al-Khalili, Pragya Agarwal, Man Leschziner, Robert Macfarlane, Sarah Gilbert, Peter Marren, Yuval Noah Harari
We requested writers and scientists together with Robert Macfarlane, Pragya Agarwal and Peter Marren to inform us what books they had been planning to remove with them this yr. And if their picks don’t make it into your packing, then why not attempt our round-up of the best science non-fiction to read on holiday and our picks of the year’s best science fiction to date?
Jim Al-Khalili is a physicist and the creator of …