25 Books for Sci Fi

io9 presents 25 books that sci fi fans and writers should read:

On the Origin of Species (1859), by Charles Darwin.
Male and Female (1949), by Margaret Mead.
Animal Liberation (1975), by Peter Singer.
Godel, Escher, Bach (1979), by Douglas Hofstadter.
Cosmos (1985), by Carl Sagan.
The Selfish Gene (1990), by Richard Dawkins.
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995), by Laurie Garrett.
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher (1995), by Richard P. Feynman.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999), by Jared Diamond.
The Elegant Universe (2000), by Brian Greene.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (2000), by Simon Singh.
The Well: A Story of Love, Death, and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (2001), by Katie Hafner.
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (2002), by David Barash and Judith Lipton.
A User's Guide to the Brain (2002), by John Ratey.
How the Universe Got Its Spots (2002), by Janna Levin.
Why Things Break (2003), by Mark Eberhart.
Evolution's Rainbow: Why Darwin Was Wrong About Sexual Selection (2004), by Joan Roughgarden.
How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2005), by Daniel H. Wilson.
Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law (2005), by Kerry MacIntosh.
The Science of Orgasm (2006), by Barry Komisauruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores, and Beverly Whipple.