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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 191,616 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 157,938 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 — 244,314 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,470 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 475,477 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 798,929 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 419,331 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,241,819 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 453,508 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 204,715 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,790 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 859,317 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 619,795 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 851,376 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,947 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,477 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,271,788 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 238,438 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 113,203 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 22,937 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 194,384 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 282,030 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 — 120,923 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 223,250 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 — 75,993 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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4.36 avg rating — 200,459 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 41,587 ratings
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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4.26 avg rating — 86,473 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 36,988 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.30 avg rating — 33,262 ratings
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
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4.18 avg rating — 28,002 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,287 ratings
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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4.27 avg rating — 19,394 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,028 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 23,655 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 893,544 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.19 avg rating — 285,116 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
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4.26 avg rating — 42,744 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 29,366 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,710 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,663 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,565 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 — 24,155 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 156,948 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 215,735 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,371 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 580,752 ratings
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.27 avg rating — 216,448 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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4.11 avg rating — 20,861 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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4.21 avg rating — 22,613 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,787 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 209,923 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 — 31,372 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,445 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,458 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,408 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 21,017 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,483 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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4.21 avg rating — 30,692 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 — 101,930 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,324 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,075 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 21,578 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 472,147 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 34,699 ratings
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18,031 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 200,977 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,066 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 — 28,815 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 — 55,902 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.06 avg rating — 77,151 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,639 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,884 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,839 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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4.30 avg rating — 17,748 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,275 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 55,949 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,211 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,775 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,728 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,243 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.99 avg rating — 66,055 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 93,850 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 — 40,446 ratings
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.19 avg rating — 30,589 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,234 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,342 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,266 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.09 avg rating — 41,366 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,287 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 164,991 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,255 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 121,084 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,550 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 183,067 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 31,143 ratings
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
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4.14 avg rating — 13,735 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,398 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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4.20 avg rating — 32,170 ratings
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Pull: How Gravity Shapes Your Body, Steadies the Mind, and Guides Our Health
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4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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