Spooky's votes on the list Best Science Books

Listopia > Spooky's votes on the list Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only (32 Books)

1	Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 1,159 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists by Peter Laufer 3.55 avg rating — 545 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 4.13 avg rating — 6,951 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	A Walk around the Pond: Insects in and over the Water by Gilbert Waldbauer 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Insights From Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us by Gilbert Waldbauer 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 4.06 avg rating — 243,648 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 4.29 avg rating — 81,451 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer 3.86 avg rating — 9,995 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich 3.98 avg rating — 1,259 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich 4.05 avg rating — 4,474 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach 3.85 avg rating — 60,705 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 56,501 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum 4.02 avg rating — 37,684 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 31,897 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach 3.93 avg rating — 52,224 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 6,108 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston 4.15 avg rating — 18,351 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris 4.05 avg rating — 1,114 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Being Human: Putting People in an Evolutionary Perspective by Mary Gribbin 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals by Richard Conniff (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 228 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier 4.13 avg rating — 4,491 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams 4.32 avg rating — 26,334 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll 4.11 avg rating — 1,455 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects by Scott Richard Shaw 4.15 avg rating — 401 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World by Marlene Zuk 3.51 avg rating — 435 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 20,726 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B. McCormick really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,559 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 56,963 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston 3.75 avg rating — 5,123 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 11,516 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 2,106 ratings Spooky rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs 4.06 avg rating — 1,379 ratings Spooky rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars