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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 161,985 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 — 488,313 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 431,056 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 820,379 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.33 avg rating — 40,390 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 — 251,395 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 196,010 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 467,282 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 11,956 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 — 77,476 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 245,684 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.09 avg rating — 103,511 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 82,133 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale
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4.15 avg rating — 28,941 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 — 29,380 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,937 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 — 57,408 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.12 avg rating — 41,263 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 213,270 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,208 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.83 avg rating — 20,264 ratings
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New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars
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4.73 avg rating — 26 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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4.37 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,350 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 45,194 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 41,215 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,659 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 81,165 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.06 avg rating — 2,084 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 — 1,751 ratings
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The Higgs Boson for Bozos
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
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4.04 avg rating — 4,448 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,404 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,031 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 — 10,180 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.12 avg rating — 9,688 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 33,003 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 53,470 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 123,765 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 10,950 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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3.97 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
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Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 122 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 — 3,753 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.04 avg rating — 14,076 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,303,748 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 61,105 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 — 7,242 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 — 6,135 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 199,205 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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4.12 avg rating — 24,358 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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4.16 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.14 avg rating — 10,467 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 117,047 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 68,737 ratings
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
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4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
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4.10 avg rating — 683 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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4.08 avg rating — 48 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 — 62,332 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 — 24,437 ratings
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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
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3.99 avg rating — 3,119 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.02 avg rating — 33,296 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 — 11,705 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 — 194,587 ratings
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
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4.14 avg rating — 3,871 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 — 14,415 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
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4.23 avg rating — 6,768 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,465 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,967 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 — 4,798 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.77 avg rating — 328 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 — 4,425 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 — 9,236 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 990 ratings
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Fluir (Flow): Una psicologia de la felicidad
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4.11 avg rating — 90,464 ratings
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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
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4.24 avg rating — 917 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.07 avg rating — 21,950 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.21 avg rating — 6,272 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.21 avg rating — 939 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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4.08 avg rating — 33,213 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 — 3,608 ratings
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
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4.11 avg rating — 1,088 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 — 266 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 206,625 ratings
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Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code
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3.93 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,389 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,297 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 — 7,559 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
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4.06 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
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3.80 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 43,127 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 115,651 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 — 124,040 ratings
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
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4.28 avg rating — 482 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 — 7,695 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 18,297 ratings
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
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4.11 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,920 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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4.14 avg rating — 3,660 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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