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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,223 ratings — published 1988
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,119 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,381 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,828 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,042 ratings — published 2011
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,407 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,632 ratings — published 1997
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,815 ratings — published 1985
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,599 ratings — published 2008
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,223 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 — 912,027 ratings — published 2005
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,896 ratings — published 1980
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,429 ratings — published 2005
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,426 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,033 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,746 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 — 104,238 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,663 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,215 ratings — published 1987
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,305 ratings — published 2008
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,233 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,060 ratings — published 1979
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,305 ratings — published 1995
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,292 ratings — published 2015
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,445 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,140 ratings — published 2007
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 — 58,082 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 — 61,505 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 — 868,473 ratings — published 2000
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,731 ratings — published 2016
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 — 42,542 ratings — published 1986
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,471 ratings — published 2006
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,589 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,119 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,081 ratings — published 2016
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,991 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 — 53,140 ratings — published 2012
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,040 ratings — published 1994
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.85 — 61,293 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 — 29,613 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 4.31 — 55,714 ratings — published 2020
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.26 — 223,773 ratings — published 1985
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,539 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,270 ratings — published 2003
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,249 ratings — published 1997
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,200 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,111 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,593 ratings — published 1999
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,100 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,250 ratings — published 2014
