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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 418,549 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 892,702 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 281,718 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 452,587 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 — 75,903 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 157,683 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 — 243,804 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 209,788 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 — 120,773 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 474,545 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 — 101,832 ratings
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No Logo
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3.89 avg rating — 32,641 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,436 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 27,883 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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4.17 avg rating — 16,972 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,237,522 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 55,904 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.27 avg rating — 216,096 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 797,735 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,178 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 191,322 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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4.11 avg rating — 87,706 ratings
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
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3.97 avg rating — 19,421 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,061 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,383 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,732 ratings
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 23,979 ratings
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The Science of Interstellar
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4.29 avg rating — 6,740 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 561,320 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 — 59,148 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 — 36,917 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,357 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 21,000 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 — 55,873 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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4.09 avg rating — 236,031 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 93,737 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,220 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.10 avg rating — 41,329 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 161,331 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,332 ratings
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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4.07 avg rating — 5,790 ratings
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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3.87 avg rating — 106,258 ratings
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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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4.10 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 71,602 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 118,588 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 — 1,436 ratings
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Being and Time
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4.05 avg rating — 27,543 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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3.79 avg rating — 4,044 ratings
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
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4.33 avg rating — 16,339 ratings
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
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4.23 avg rating — 31,067 ratings
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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4.05 avg rating — 27,253 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,125 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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4.39 avg rating — 8,807 ratings
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Affluenza
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3.48 avg rating — 1,491 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 — 5,996 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.09 avg rating — 5,852 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,222 ratings
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Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
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4.05 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,428 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 59,993 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 — 24,137 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,557 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 — 28,775 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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3.82 avg rating — 24,717 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 619,202 ratings
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The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works Of Richard Feynman
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4.23 avg rating — 13,500 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,404 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,013 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 204,177 ratings
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Machine Learning: An Introduction Math Guide for Beginners to Understand Data Science Through the Business Applications
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4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
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4.23 avg rating — 78 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 — 40,396 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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4.18 avg rating — 10,116 ratings
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The Decline of the West
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4.06 avg rating — 2,211 ratings
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They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life
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3.86 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,606 ratings
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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4.20 avg rating — 13,968 ratings
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The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
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3.99 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 28,589 ratings
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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3.90 avg rating — 24,226 ratings
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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3.80 avg rating — 5,691 ratings
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Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya
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3.37 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 232,024 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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4.06 avg rating — 9,852 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 237,965 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 39,988 ratings
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Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creator
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3.99 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible
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4.09 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
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4.05 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off
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4.32 avg rating — 168 ratings
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My Brief History
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3.63 avg rating — 11,234 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,928 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,252 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 — 41,538 ratings
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The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
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4.10 avg rating — 579 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 — 1,135 ratings
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
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4.38 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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4.41 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
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Think Like a Freak
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3.86 avg rating — 56,024 ratings
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The list name says 'non-fiction' but there are R.K.Rowling and J.R.Tolkien works on the list.