Books mentioned on-air by Douglas Starr, Deborah Blum, Ira Flatow, and listeners during our May 20 broadcast:

The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler.

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin

A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World and The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider by Amir Aczel.

The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy by Bernd Heinrich

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf.

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities and Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean.

Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can do At Home - But Probably Shouldn't by Theo Gray

The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists by Sean Connolly.

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal.

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle

Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman.

The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims.

Books suggested by listeners via email, Facebook, and Twitter:

The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures, 1964) Richard Feynman

The Control of Nature by John McPhee

The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival by Dr. Stephen R Palumbi and Ms Carolyn Sotka

Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future by Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza

The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

The Dynamics of Change by Don Fabun

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Briane Greene

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands

For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics by Walter Lewin and Warren Goldstein

From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean M. Carroll

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World by Paul Gilding

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen

Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema by David A. Kirby

Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, Expanded Edition by William P. Berlinghoff

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci

Organic Manifesto: How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe by Maria Rodale

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, and Albert R. Hibbs

They All Laughed... From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives by Ira Flatow

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant