Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work. ...more

The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
The Madness Pill: One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
The Book of Cannabis: The History and Future of the Plant and the Drug
How to Talk to AI (and How Not To)
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
Chain Reaction: The Wondrous Chemistry of Everyday Life
The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
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    In Nature We Trust: A Raw Food Manifesto for Energy, Healing & Longevity
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    I Can’t if I Don’t Know How: B. F. Skinner, Humanism, ABA and Promoting Freedom
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    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
    Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
    Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
    Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
    Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
    Elon Musk
    Playground
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
    Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
    The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
    Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickReady Player One by Ernest ClineCount Zero by William Gibson
    Best cyberpunk books
    216 books — 455 voters
    The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangLove on the Brain by Ali HazelwoodLove, Theoretically by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Theorem by Camilla Isley
    Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
    330 books — 293 voters

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Host by Stephenie MeyerCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica Roth
    Best Sci-Fi/Futuristic Romance
    1,454 books — 1,398 voters
    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsFoundation by Isaac AsimovDune by Frank HerbertRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
    best hard science fiction
    441 books — 887 voters

    Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
    2,116 books — 1,489 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    The Gene: An Intimate History
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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