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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,121 ratings — published 1988
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,956 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,495 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,205 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,439 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,833 ratings — published 2020
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,867 ratings — published 1980
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,957 ratings — published 2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,187 ratings — published 2017
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,589 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,672 ratings — published 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,236 ratings — published 2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,748 ratings — published 2018
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,751 ratings — published 2008
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,317,022 ratings — published 2011
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,981 ratings — published 2013
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,922 ratings — published 2009
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,916 ratings — published 1962
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,581 ratings — published 2022
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,913 ratings — published 1962
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,788 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,361 ratings — published 1986
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,967 ratings — published 2019
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,607 ratings — published 2017
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,883 ratings — published 2016
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,744 ratings — published 2016
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,397 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,355 ratings — published 2016
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,472 ratings — published 2010
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,363 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,255 ratings — published 1997
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,385 ratings — published 1985
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,911 ratings — published 2017
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,998 ratings — published 2004
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,828 ratings — published 1999
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,780 ratings — published 1994
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,966 ratings — published 1987
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,017 ratings — published 1991
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,629 ratings — published 2003
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,058 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,072 ratings — published 2001
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,211 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,687 ratings — published 1995
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,675 ratings — published 1994
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,401 ratings — published 2022
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,766 ratings — published 2022
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,441 ratings — published 2019
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,960 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,763 ratings — published 2010
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-sciences)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,159 ratings — published 1964
“One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.”
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“Studying Natural Sciences was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and without doubt one of the most rewarding.”
― It's Not Rocket Science: Discover the Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Most Exciting Bits of Science
― It's Not Rocket Science: Discover the Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Most Exciting Bits of Science