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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 157,105 ratings
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
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4.21 avg rating — 472,363 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 416,820 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 794,791 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.34 avg rating — 39,046 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 242,716 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 190,646 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 11,988 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 450,420 ratings
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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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3.99 avg rating — 75,681 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 236,888 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,311 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale
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4.15 avg rating — 28,565 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 101,622 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,711 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 59,853 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 55,579 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.13 avg rating — 40,299 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 202,858 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,675 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,869 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.42 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,612 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,386 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,052 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,261 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.05 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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The Higgs Boson for Bozos
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
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4.04 avg rating — 4,329 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,269 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 9,897 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.12 avg rating — 9,339 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,036 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,011 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 10,836 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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3.98 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
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3.93 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.04 avg rating — 13,246 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,227,455 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.18 avg rating — 31,003 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 59,847 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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3.87 avg rating — 7,164 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 5,976 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 193,268 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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4.12 avg rating — 24,189 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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4.16 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.14 avg rating — 10,366 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 67,231 ratings
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
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4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
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4.11 avg rating — 658 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 58,470 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,089 ratings
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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,020 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,648 ratings
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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4.04 avg rating — 11,431 ratings
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Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
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3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 180,732 ratings
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
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4.14 avg rating — 3,822 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 13,826 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
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4.22 avg rating — 6,621 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,338 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,124 ratings
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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4.25 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
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4.10 avg rating — 4,188 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers the Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
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4.14 avg rating — 9,015 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Fluir (Flow): Una psicologia de la felicidad
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4.11 avg rating — 87,275 ratings
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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
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4.24 avg rating — 883 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 21,500 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.21 avg rating — 6,209 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.20 avg rating — 914 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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4.07 avg rating — 32,196 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 — 3,509 ratings
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
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4.10 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them
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3.84 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 199,827 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,547 ratings
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Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code
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3.93 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 27,824 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,153 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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4.02 avg rating — 7,439 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
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4.05 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
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3.80 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,249 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 112,784 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 120,430 ratings
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
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4.29 avg rating — 471 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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3.91 avg rating — 7,636 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,535 ratings
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
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4.11 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,238 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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4.13 avg rating — 3,593 ratings
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RNA Worlds: From Life's Origins to Diversity in Gene Regulation
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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