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Natural Science Books
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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 477,092 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,723 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,456 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,149 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,828 ratings — published 2003
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,025 ratings — published 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,050 ratings — published 2018
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,992 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,051 ratings — published 2009
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,650 ratings — published 2013
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,249,946 ratings — published 2011
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,495 ratings — published 2020
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,751 ratings — published 2017
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,392 ratings — published 1980
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,400 ratings — published 2003
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,891 ratings — published 1987
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,171 ratings — published 2017
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,682 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 — 59,503 ratings — published 2015
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,672 ratings — published 1986
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,429 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,545 ratings — published 2015
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,818 ratings — published 1962
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,533 ratings — published 2016
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,474 ratings — published 2016
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,455 ratings — published 2017
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,671 ratings — published 2004
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 801,340 ratings — published 2010
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,305 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,091 ratings — published 1999
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,129 ratings — published 2006
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,990 ratings — published 1916
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,106 ratings — published 1949
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,483 ratings — published 2016
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,017 ratings — published 2008
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,309 ratings — published 2007
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,604 ratings — published 1991
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,750 ratings — published 2008
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,109 ratings — published 2022
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,776 ratings — published 2019
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 224,611 ratings — published 2017
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 16,499 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,685 ratings — published 1962
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,715 ratings — published 2012
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,988 ratings — published 1995
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,376 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 — 80,058 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,613 ratings — published 2006
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,908 ratings — published 2018
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,787 ratings — published 2018
“In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.”
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“In social science, in contrast to natural science, it seems that by the time one goes in search of empirical evidence, a favored theory has already been chosen, and evidence is being gathered not in order to test it but in order to confirm it.”
― Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior
― Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior
