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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,198 ratings — published 1988
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,271 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,071 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,128 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,167 ratings — published 2011
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,417 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,001 ratings — published 1997
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,250 ratings — published 1985
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,597 ratings — published 2008
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,848 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,420 ratings — published 2005
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,265 ratings — published 1980
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,633 ratings — published 2005
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,130 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.37 — 232,807 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,816 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,200 ratings — published 1999
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,194 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,408 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,572 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,971 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,258 ratings — published 1979
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,915 ratings — published 2015
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,706 ratings — published 1995
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,124 ratings — published 2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,924 ratings — published 2010
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.01 — 861,639 ratings — published 2000
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,431 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,384 ratings — published 2007
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,110 ratings — published 1986
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,531 ratings — published 2018
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,702 ratings — published 2016
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,530 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,797 ratings — published 2006
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,837 ratings — published 2008
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,763 ratings — published 2012
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,343 ratings — published 2018
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,439 ratings — published 1994
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,790 ratings — published 2008
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,274 ratings — published 1999
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,310 ratings — published 2020
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,079 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,311 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.26 — 220,566 ratings — published 1985
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,813 ratings — published 1997
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 158,725 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,649 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,291 ratings — published 1999
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,195 ratings — published 2019
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,077 ratings — published 2018










