The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Penguin Press, February 2010)
Ghost Hunters: William James and The Scientific Search for Life After Death (Penguin Press, 2006)
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (Perseus, 2002)
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women (Viking, 1997)
The Monkey Wars (Oxford University Press, 1994)