Science Books to Read This Summer

PEN American Center, based in New York City, works to advance literature and defend free expression. It also works to bring together writers and readers.

Here are the three science books they recommend to read this summer. All of them are available at Upper Moreland Free Library.

1. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink.

Fink investigates patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina. After flood waters rose, power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers designated patients last for rescue. They faced accusations that they injected patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.

2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach.

Roach investigates the beginning and end of our food, why crunchy food is appealing, how much we can eat before our stomachs burst and if constipation killed Elvis.

3. Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells us About Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene Zuk.

Zuk debunks beliefs that human beings have finished evolving and defends that modern man is not biologically the same as caveman ancestors.

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