 | Frankenstein: Or "The Modern Prometheus" - The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £1.50 There's no more famous fusion of science and literature than this classic 1818 novel about Promethean hubris and mad scientists. Frankenfoods here we come!
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 | The Alchemist and Other Plays: "Volpone, or the Fox", "Epicene, or the Silent Woman", "The Alchemist", "Bartholemew Fair" (Oxford World's Classics) by Ben Jonson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.45 Ben Jonson's play shows the dangers of being blinded by science and it has lost none of its brilliant wit in the last 400 years.
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 | Elective Affinities (Classics) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £2.04 Goethe's inspiration in this powerful novel is chemistry, a science that was revealing the mysterious forces underlying matter. But can it explain the ultimate mystery: love?
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 | The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £3.61 / Used from: £1.68 Another book on a chemical theme. For Levi, Mendeleevs periodic table was poetry, loftier and more solemn than all the poetry we swallowed down in liceo. An extraordinary book.
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 | Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £5.25 Nabokovs novel of incest and insects is both an exercise in eroticised natural history and an evocative study of time in which relativity is the "fiat of a fishy formula."
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 | We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £3.75 Zamyatins extraordinary dystopian novel succeeds brilliantly in capturing the mindset of someone who sees the world in terms of maths.
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 | The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Buy new: £10.50 / Used from: £7.79 Musil's great, unfinished masterpiece recreates Vienna before WW1. Ulrich is a disturbingly modern figure and his search for a union of "maths and mysticism" is our own.
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 | Life of Galileo (Methuen Student Editions) (Student Editions) by Bertolt Brecht
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £4.94 In what is arguably his best play, Brecht asks hard questions about science in the age of nuclear missiles. Are scientists responsible for their lethal technologies?
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 | Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
Buy used from: £0.01 A moving account of two lives torn apart by the chaotic events of the last century, but which remain joined by forces as invisible as those that govern atomic particles. An impressive novel of ideas.
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 | A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems About Science (Faber Poetry)
Buy new: £2.49 / Used from: £0.18 A super collection of new and old poetry on science. It shows that there's more than one way of reading (and writing) the Book of Nature.
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