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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 489,843 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,013 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,044 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,548 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 432,415 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 42,990 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,453 ratings — published 2014
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,492 ratings — published 2020
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,871 ratings — published 2009
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,311,080 ratings — published 2011
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 185,619 ratings — published 2013
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 214,368 ratings — published 2017
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,442 ratings — published 2003
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,789 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,509 ratings — published 1980
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,887 ratings — published 1987
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,621 ratings — published 2017
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,270 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,314 ratings — published 1986
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,339 ratings — published 2022
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 62,822 ratings — published 2015
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,831 ratings — published 1962
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,220 ratings — published 2016
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,444 ratings — published 1949
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,813 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 822,907 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,700 ratings — published 1999
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,669 ratings — published 2008
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,910 ratings — published 2006
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,761 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,560 ratings — published 2016
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,162 ratings — published 2016
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,968 ratings — published 2004
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,989 ratings — published 1991
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,304 ratings — published 1916
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,294 ratings — published 2022
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 235,731 ratings — published 2017
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,717 ratings — published 1962
Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,360 ratings — published 1979
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,153 ratings — published 1995
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,332 ratings — published 2008
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,808 ratings — published 2007
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,328 ratings — published 2001
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,698 ratings — published 2022
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,553 ratings — published 2019
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,231 ratings — published 2014
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,185 ratings — published 2012
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,410 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,441 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,025 ratings — published 2006
“When it is really natural science that speaks, we listen willingly and as disciples. But the language of the natural scientists is not always that of natural science itself, and is assuredly not so when they speak of "natural philosophy" and the "theory of knowledge of natural science.”
― Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
― Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology











