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Hidden Figures
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Fever! The Hunt for a New Killer Virus
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Fever
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The Demon in the Freezer
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Evolution: A Visual Record
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4.38 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works
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The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora – An Entertaining Encyclopedia from Magic Mushrooms to Toxic Teas
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3.74 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World
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3.76 avg rating — 773 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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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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The Way Life Works
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Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
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Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World
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Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
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The Birdman's Wife
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
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Bad Science
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,368 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,464 ratings
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Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
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4.10 avg rating — 17,007 ratings
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
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Microbe Hunters - Then and Now
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,595 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,820 ratings
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Arrowsmith
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3.84 avg rating — 8,543 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 — 121,342 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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Leonardo da Vinci
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills (
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Prozac Nation
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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4.09 avg rating — 237,371 ratings
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Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,658 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,625 ratings
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The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
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4.05 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
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3.93 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,283,077 ratings
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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The Signature of All Things
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3.88 avg rating — 124,835 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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When Breath Becomes Air
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 52,406 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 185,012 ratings
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Enchantress of Numbers
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3.59 avg rating — 5,740 ratings
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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The Holographic Universe
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The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
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The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
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Shark Trouble
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4.01 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Mind of the Raven
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Gorillas in the Mist
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4.15 avg rating — 21,175 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
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The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery
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3.71 avg rating — 257 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 — 28,794 ratings
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The Day We Found the Universe
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA
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