- Marcia Bjornerud, Reading the Rocks
- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
- Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory
- Euclid, Elements
- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
- Galileo Galilei, Siderius Nuncius
- Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus
- Stephen Jay Gould, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
- Roald Hoffmann, The Same and Not the Same
- Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac
- John McPhee, The Control of Nature
- Matt Ridley, Nature via Nurture, aka The Agile Gene
- Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain
- Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch
- E. O. Wilson, Consilience
- Proof that √2 is irrational
This list was prepared by Lawrence's science and math faculty and revised in February of 2007. There are five divisional lists, and the syllabus for Freshman Studies must include at least one work from each of them.
