Best Science Books
Popular or even technical science books that you thought were really well done.
1
A Short History of Nearly Everything
byBill Bryson
4.16 avg rating — 66,234 ratings
vote for this book score: 21,052, and210 people voted
2
A Brief History of Time
byStephen Hawking
4.02 avg rating — 53,929 ratings
vote for this book score: 16,336, and166 people voted
3
Cosmos
byCarl Sagan
4.34 avg rating — 20,461 ratings
vote for this book score: 15,797, and161 people voted
4
Green Illusions
byOzzie Zehner(Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 243 ratings
vote for this book score: 14,504, and151 people voted
5
The Selfish Gene
byRichard Dawkins(Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 24,022 ratings
vote for this book score: 12,914, and129 people voted
6
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
byCarl Sagan
4.32 avg rating — 15,003 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,624, and109 people voted
7
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
byJared Diamond
3.97 avg rating — 74,790 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,237, and102 people voted
8
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest
for the Ultimate Theory
byBrian Greene
4.05 avg rating — 21,085 ratings
9
The God Delusion
byRichard Dawkins(Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 58,965 ratings
vote for this book score: 7,321, and71 people voted
10
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
byDouglas R. Hofstadter
4.30 avg rating — 13,040 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,748, and67 people voted
11
The Origin of Species
byCharles Darwin
3.91 avg rating — 21,230 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,732, and70 people voted
12
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
byRichard P. Feynman
4.32 avg rating — 26,236 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,890, and58 people voted
13
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
byRichard Dawkins(Goodreads Author)4.17 avg rating — 6,457 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,824, and57 people voted
14
The Hot Zone
byRichard Preston
4.01 avg rating — 28,018 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,621, and56 people voted
15
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
Everything
bySteven D. Levitt
3.81 avg rating — 236,978 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,007, and51 people voted
16
The Blind Watchmaker
byRichard Dawkins(Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 9,501 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,605, and46 people voted
17
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
byRichard Dawkins(Goodreads Author)4.20 avg rating — 12,486 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,381, and44 people voted
18
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
byRichard P. Feynman
vote for this book score: 4,363, and45 people voted
19
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & Other Clinical Tales
byOliver Sacks(Goodreads Author)4.01 avg rating — 34,568 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,344, and45 people voted
20
The Universe in a Nutshell
byStephen Hawking
4.04 avg rating — 9,199 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,336, and42 people voted
21
Chaos: The Making of a New Science
byJames Gleick
3.96 avg rating — 8,654 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,864, and40 people voted
22
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
byRebecca Skloot(Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 111,275 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,634, and37 people voted
23
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
byCarl Sagan4.33 avg rating — 6,145 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,526, and36 people voted
24
The World Without Us
byAlan Weisman
3.77 avg rating — 13,855 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,483, and32 people voted
25
The Fabric of the Cosmos
byBrian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 8,641 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,460, and34 people voted
26
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest
Mathematical Problem
bySimon Singh
4.14 avg rating — 6,021 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,256, and32 people voted
27
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
byMatt Ridley4.01 avg rating — 6,138 ratings
28
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
byRichard P. Feynman4.18 avg rating — 4,573 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,150, and31 people voted
29
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
byLewis Thomas4.16 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,084, and32 people voted
30
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
byStephen Jay Gould4.16 avg rating — 2,478 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,063, and30 people voted
31
Last Chance to See
byDouglas Adams
4.30 avg rating — 7,207 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,015, and31 people voted
32
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
bySteven Pinker
4.06 avg rating — 5,390 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,852, and28 people voted
33
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and
the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
bySam Kean3.89 avg rating — 7,543 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,718, and24 people voted
34
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest
Scientific Problem of his Time
byDava Sobel
3.89 avg rating — 13,802 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,714, and29 people voted
35
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
byJared Diamond3.90 avg rating — 22,246 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,707, and26 people voted
36
The Invention of Religion
byAlexander Drake
4.52 avg rating — 102 ratings
37
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
byCarl Sagan4.17 avg rating — 4,718 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,486, and25 people voted
38
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the
Human Body
byNeil Shubin(Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,488 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,452, and22 people voted
39
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of
Balance
byLaurie Garrett
4.20 avg rating — 3,155 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,439, and23 people voted
40
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
byNeil deGrasse Tyson
4.09 avg rating — 4,485 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,409, and23 people voted
41
Outliers: The Story of Success
byMalcolm Gladwell
4.03 avg rating — 112,973 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,390, and25 people voted
42
How the Mind Works
bySteven Pinker
3.99 avg rating — 5,316 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,362, and23 people voted
43
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
byRichard Rhodes
4.31 avg rating — 4,338 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,319, and22 people voted
44
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time
Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
byMichio Kaku
4.12 avg rating — 4,777 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,193, and22 people voted
45
The Tao of Physics
byFritjof Capra
3.89 avg rating — 5,131 ratings
46
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
byJohn M. Barry3.90 avg rating — 6,218 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,106, and21 people voted
47
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
byThomas S. Kuhn
3.95 avg rating — 5,395 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,059, and21 people voted
48
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
byMalcolm Gladwell
3.78 avg rating — 122,130 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,841, and20 people voted
49
The Ascent of Man
byJacob Bronowski
4.21 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,813, and19 people voted
50
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
byNeil deGrasse Tyson3.86 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,787, and16 people voted
51
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
byLeonard Mlodinow
3.80 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,785, and19 people voted
52
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
byMary Roach
4.05 avg rating — 47,952 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,564, and15 people voted
53
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
byRichard P. Feynman
4.21 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,514, and15 people voted
53
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
byCharles Seife
3.90 avg rating — 2,923 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,514, and14 people voted
55
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
bySteven Pinker
4.05 avg rating — 5,448 ratings
56
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming
and What We Can Do About It
byAl Gore
3.72 avg rating — 3,396 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,440, and16 people voted
57
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal
byJared Diamond3.99 avg rating — 5,635 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,418, and16 people voted
58
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
byStephen Jay Gould4.11 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,369, and15 people voted
59
The New Way Things Work
byDavid Macaulay
4.27 avg rating — 266 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,349, and14 people voted
60
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
byStephen Jay Gould4.11 avg rating — 974 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,341, and13 people voted
61
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for
God
byCarl Sagan
4.33 avg rating — 2,739 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,333, and13 people voted
61
The Ghost Map
bySteven Johnson
3.90 avg rating — 9,069 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,333, and14 people voted
63
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum
Cryptography
bySimon Singh
4.22 avg rating — 5,063 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,309, and14 people voted
64
The Design of Everyday Things
byDonald A. Norman
4.10 avg rating — 3,776 ratings
65
The Mismeasure of Man
byStephen Jay Gould4.06 avg rating — 2,904 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,289, and14 people voted
66
Silent Spring
byRachel Carson
3.87 avg rating — 11,220 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,279, and14 people voted
67
Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why
You Need to Know About It
bySimon Singh
4.14 avg rating — 2,996 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,247, and10 people voted
68
Bad Science
byBen Goldacre
4.11 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,241, and12 people voted
69
Woman: An Intimate Geography
byNatalie Angier
4.17 avg rating — 2,136 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,240, and11 people voted
70
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
byNeil deGrasse Tyson4.09 avg rating — 472 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,220, and12 people voted
71
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
byPhilip C. Plait4.16 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,219, and13 people voted
72
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
byAlbert Einstein4.12 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,211, and11 people voted
73
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
byRichard Dawkins(Goodreads Author)4.04 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
74
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a
Curious Character
byRichard P. Feynman
4.28 avg rating — 5,719 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,192, and12 people voted
75
Man and His Symbols
byC.G. Jung
4.12 avg rating — 6,406 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,176, and13 people voted
76
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of
Evolutionary Psychology
byRobert Wright
4.01 avg rating — 2,571 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,174, and10 people voted
77
Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
byGary Zukav
3.94 avg rating — 3,800 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,125, and11 people voted
78
The Double Helix
byJames D. Watson
3.78 avg rating — 4,645 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,117, and12 people voted
79
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
byJonathan Weiner4.16 avg rating — 2,239 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,113, and11 people voted
80
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
byMichael Pollan4.03 avg rating — 19,587 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,077, and11 people voted
81
The Grand Design
byStephen Hawking
3.90 avg rating — 11,274 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,070, and10 people voted
82
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
byCarl Sagan4.00 avg rating — 3,045 ratings
83
Voyage of the Beagle
byCharles Darwin3.96 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,043, and9 people voted
84
How to Lie with Statistics
byDarrell Huff
3.79 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,038, and9 people voted
85
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
byKip S. Thorne4.14 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,014, and10 people voted
86
Why Evolution Is True
byJerry A. Coyne
4.21 avg rating — 3,512 ratings
vote for this book score: 959, and7 people voted
87
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
byEdwin A. Abbott
3.78 avg rating — 14,477 ratings
vote for this book score: 911, and10 people voted
88
The Emperor of All Maladies
bySiddhartha Mukherjee
4.24 avg rating — 12,737 ratings
vote for this book score: 873, and8 people voted
89
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
byDava Sobel3.65 avg rating — 9,365 ratings
vote for this book score: 852, and6 people voted
90
A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than
Nothing
byLawrence M. Krauss
3.94 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
vote for this book score: 838, and7 people voted
91
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why
Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
bySteven D. Levitt
3.84 avg rating — 30,267 ratings
92
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
byDan Ariely4.02 avg rating — 16,857 ratings
vote for this book score: 825, and9 people voted
93
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and
Space-Time
byRichard P. Feynman
4.19 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
vote for this book score: 820, and6 people voted
94
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the
Truth
byJames Burke
4.28 avg rating — 539 ratings
vote for this book score: 788, and9 people voted
95
The Diversity of Life
byEdward O. Wilson
4.15 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
vote for this book score: 769, and9 people voted
96
The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
byIsaac Newton4.10 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
vote for this book score: 763, and8 people voted
97
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in
Jazz Age New York
byDeborah Blum
4.02 avg rating — 5,474 ratings
vote for this book score: 748, and5 people voted
98
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
byIan Stewart
3.61 avg rating — 183 ratings
vote for this book score: 743, and8 people voted
99
A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from
Round River
byAldo Leopold
4.19 avg rating — 7,721 ratings
vote for this book score: 736, and4 people voted
100
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the
Cosmos
byBrian Greene
4.00 avg rating — 2,830 ratings
101
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata3.82 avg rating — 1,818 ratings vote for this book score: 683, and 4 people voted
102
The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physicsby Roger Penrose
3.69 avg rating — 1,631 ratings vote for this book score: 665, and 7 people voted
103
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexualityby Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 4,080 ratings vote for this book score: 663, and 7 people voted
104
Coming of Age in the Milky Wayby Timothy Ferris (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 843 ratings
vote for this book score: 662, and 6 people voted
105
Thinking, Fast and Slowby Daniel Kahneman
4.03 avg rating — 12,874 ratings vote for this book score: 653, and 7 people voted
106
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Natureby Steven Weinberg
3.85 avg rating — 296 ratings
vote for this book score: 648, and 4 people voted
107
The Character of Physical Lawby Richard P. Feynman
4.27 avg rating — 890 ratings vote for this book score: 638, and 7 people voted
108
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, ForceFields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
4.06 avg rating — 6,338 ratings vote for this book score: 636, and 7 people voted
109
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Loveby Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 2,225 ratings vote for this book score: 625, and 7 people voted
110
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshellby Stephen Hawking
vote for this book score: 611, and 7 people voted
111
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future ofthe Cosmos by Michio Kaku
4.14 avg rating — 3,319 ratings vote for this book score: 569, and 6 people voted
112
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Scienceby George Gamow
4.16 avg rating — 552 ratings
vote for this book score: 566, and 6 people voted
113
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestorsby Carl Sagan
4.27 avg rating — 1,295 ratings vote for this book score: 553, and 6 people voted
114
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingby Christopher Hitchens
3.90 avg rating — 27,280 ratings vote for this book score: 519, and 6 people voted
115
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Differenceby Malcolm Gladwell
3.75 avg rating — 191,188 ratings vote for this book score: 498, and 6 people voted
116
What Is This Thing Called Science?by Alan F. Chalmers
3.68 avg rating — 215 ratings
vote for this book score: 486, and 5 people voted
117
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)by Suzanne Collins
4.46 avg rating — 1,255,304 ratings vote for this book score: 484, and 5 people voted
118
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Usby Christopher Chabris
3.85 avg rating — 2,314 ratings vote for this book score: 482, and 5 people voted
119
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers ofBrain Science by Norman Doidge
4.23 avg rating — 6,545 ratings vote for this book score: 479, and 5 people voted
120
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier3.63 avg rating — 1,459 ratings vote for this book score: 478, and 5 people voted
121
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writingby Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 417 ratings
vote for this book score: 473, and 5 people voted
121
The Logic of Scientific Discoveryby Karl R. Popper
3.90 avg rating — 1,210 ratings vote for this book score: 473, and 5 people voted
123
Annals of the Former Worldby John McPhee
4.38 avg rating — 998 ratings vote for this book score: 465, and 5 people voted
123
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Floodby James Gleick
3.92 avg rating — 4,170 ratings vote for this book score: 465, and 5 people voted
125
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sunby David L. Goodstein
4.26 avg rating — 415 ratings
vote for this book score: 463, and 5 people voted
126
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctionby David Quammen (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 2,069 ratings vote for this book score: 461, and 5 people voted
127
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledgeby Edward O. Wilson
3.88 avg rating — 1,760 ratings vote for this book score: 458, and 5 people voted
128
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geologyby Simon Winchester
3.73 avg rating — 3,604 ratings vote for this book score: 456, and 5 people voted
128
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcherby Lewis Thomas
4.09 avg rating — 503 ratings vote for this book score: 456, and 5 people voted
130
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanicsby Leonard Susskind
3.94 avg rating — 1,262 ratings vote for this book score: 452, and 5 people voted
131
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty andTerror of Science by Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 2,424 ratings vote for this book score: 450, and 5 people voted
132
Black Holes and Baby Universesby Stephen Hawking
3.96 avg rating — 2,667 ratings vote for this book score: 443, and 5 people voted
133
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How WeConstruct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
3.88 avg rating — 1,679 ratings vote for this book score: 437, and 5 people voted
134
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and WhatComes Next by Lee Smolin
3.92 avg rating — 1,832 ratings vote for this book score: 428, and 5 people voted
135
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexualityby Jared Diamond
3.62 avg rating — 1,464 ratings vote for this book score: 424, and 5 people voted
136
Poetry of the Universeby Robert Osserman
3.86 avg rating — 77 ratings
vote for this book score: 393, and 4 people voted
137
Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophyby Guy Murchie
4.46 avg rating — 162 ratings
vote for this book score: 392, and 4 people voted
138
The Wayfindersby Wade Davis
4.24 avg rating — 426 ratings vote for this book score: 391, and 4 people voted
139
The Secret Magdaleneby Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 1,297 ratings vote for this book score: 390, and 4 people voted
140
Stumbling on Happinessby Daniel Gilbert
3.72 avg rating — 12,135 ratings vote for this book score: 388, and 4 people voted
141
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life Of Paul Dirac, Quantum Geniusby Graham Farmelo
4.07 avg rating — 760 ratings
vote for this book score: 386, and 4 people voted
142
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Beliefby Francis S. Collins
3.73 avg rating — 2,804 ratings vote for this book score: 384, and 4 people voted
143
The Periodic Tableby Primo Levi
4.17 avg rating — 2,594 ratings vote for this book score: 383, and 4 people voted
144
The Descent of Manby Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating — 1,035 ratings vote for this book score: 379, and 4 people voted
144
The Hobbitby J.R.R. Tolkien
4.17 avg rating — 852,275 ratings vote for this book score: 379, and 4 people voted
146
Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the Worldby Nick Lane
4.13 avg rating — 190 ratings
vote for this book score: 378, and 4 people voted
147
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, and hby George Gamow
3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
vote for this book score: 376, and 4 people voted
148
The Case for Marsby Robert M. Zubrin
3.98 avg rating — 554 ratings vote for this book score: 374, and 4 people voted
149
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis4.13 avg rating — 505,459 ratings vote for this book score: 373, and 4 people voted
150
Prisoner's Dilemmaby William Poundstone
3.86 avg rating — 465 ratings vote for this book score: 372, and 4 people voted
150
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Natureby Steven Pinker
3.83 avg rating — 3,069 ratings vote for this book score: 372, and 4 people voted
152
The Control of Natureby John McPhee
4.22 avg rating — 1,468 ratings vote for this book score: 370, and 4 people voted
152
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journeyby Jill Bolte Taylor
3.77 avg rating — 8,057 ratings vote for this book score: 370, and 4 people voted
154
Mendeleyev's Dreamby Paul Strathern
3.76 avg rating — 91 ratings
vote for this book score: 369, and 4 people voted
155
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemicby Randy Shilts
4.38 avg rating — 7,246 ratings vote for this book score: 367, and 4 people voted
156
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land ofVanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg
4.29 avg rating — 338 ratings vote for this book score: 366, and 4 people voted
157
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond Morris
3.87 avg rating — 2,628 ratings vote for this book score: 356, and 4 people voted
158
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould4.07 avg rating — 769 ratings
vote for this book score: 353, and 4 people voted
159
Eve's Rib: Searching for the Biological Roots of Sex Differencesby Robert Pool
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
vote for this book score: 348, and 4 people voted
160
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenonby Daniel C. Dennett
3.90 avg rating — 3,291 ratings vote for this book score: 339, and 4 people voted
161
Billions and Billionsby Carl Sagan
4.23 avg rating — 3,612 ratings vote for this book score: 323, and 4 people voted
162
Krakatoa: The Day the World Explodedby Simon Winchester
3.81 avg rating — 6,301 ratings vote for this book score: 299, and 3 people voted
163
A Duty To The Deadby Charles Todd (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 2,656 ratings vote for this book score: 296, and 3 people voted
164
One Riverby Wade Davis
4.38 avg rating — 494 ratings vote for this book score: 295, and 3 people voted
165
To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
4.21 avg rating — 1,282,842 ratings vote for this book score: 294, and 3 people voted
166
Water for Elephantsby Sara Gruen
4.05 avg rating — 541,901 ratings vote for this book score: 292, and 3 people voted
167
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Lifeby Nick Lane
4.29 avg rating — 340 ratings
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