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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Lab Girl
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Silent Spring
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Hidden Figures
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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The Genius of Birds
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 29,357 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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In the Shadow of Man
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
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3.64 avg rating — 2,128 ratings
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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 22,338 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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4.05 avg rating — 9,597 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,523 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 40,560 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
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Moral Code
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The End of Everything
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
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In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine
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The Planets
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us
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