A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,838 books — 3,601 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,067 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMath Jokes by Ralph LaneThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanThe Lessons of History by Will DurantThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Polymath's Library
257 books — 69 voters
One Summer by Bill BrysonThose Angry Days by Lynne OlsonLa invención de la naturaleza by Andrea WulfFeria by Ana Iris SimónLa civilización del espectáculo by Mario Vargas Llosa
La Cultureta
22 books — 4 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueRegeneration by Pat BarkerA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
World War One Literature
224 books — 357 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,141 books — 2,402 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
Best Books About Mathematics
449 books — 667 voters