Books like Uncle Tungsten

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks reads as nostalgic, curious. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What mad pursuit

Francis Crick · 1988

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I am a mathematician

Norbert Wiener · 1956

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Starry Messenger

Peter Sís · 1996

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Phillips Feynman · 1999

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The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner · 1994

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Disturbing the universe

Freeman J. Dyson · 1979

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Gardner's whys & wherefores

Martin Gardner · 1989

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The sun shines bright

Isaac Asimov · 1981

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One, two, three ... infinity

George Gamow · 1947

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Quantum Theory

David Bohm · 1989

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College physics

Randall Dewey Knight · 2006

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