113 books
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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,774 ratings — published 1988
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,050 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,522 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,248,153 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,361 ratings — published 2011
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,862 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,896 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 — 245,053 ratings — published 1985
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 205,571 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,801 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.19 — 861,599 ratings — published 2008
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,299 ratings — published 1980
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,573 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.37 — 224,359 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 44,769 ratings — published 2008
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,059 ratings — published 1999
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,819 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,877 ratings — published 1987
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,812 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,741 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,442 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,396 ratings — published 1979
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,041 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 — 80,007 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 — 56,020 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 — 852,581 ratings — published 2000
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,359 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,362 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 — 41,661 ratings — published 1986
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,182 ratings — published 2010
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,819 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 — 31,506 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 — 34,802 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,490 ratings — published 2006
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,372 ratings — published 2008
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 52,304 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 4.36 — 200,915 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 — 30,777 ratings — published 1994
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,142 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 — 28,881 ratings — published 1999
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,399 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,096 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 — 216,981 ratings — published 1985
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,322 ratings — published 1997
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,141 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,030 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,972 ratings — published 1999
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.17 — 22,824 ratings — published 2019
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,689 ratings — published 2018
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,247 ratings — published 2010










