Popsci Books
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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,774 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,522 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,248,153 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,050 ratings — published 1976
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,059 ratings — published 1999
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,802 ratings — published 2016
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,862 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,361 ratings — published 2011
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,396 ratings — published 1979
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,299 ratings — published 1980
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,877 ratings — published 1987
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.37 — 224,359 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,801 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.19 — 861,599 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,896 ratings — published 1997
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,628 ratings — published 1989
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,769 ratings — published 2008
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,407 ratings — published 2020
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,442 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,506 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,741 ratings — published 2010
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.26 — 216,980 ratings — published 1985
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,711 ratings — published 2016
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,571 ratings — published 2017
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,427 ratings — published 1985
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,367 ratings — published 2008
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,096 ratings — published 2003
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,044 ratings — published 1997
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,661 ratings — published 1986
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,007 ratings — published 1995
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,573 ratings — published 2005
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.14 — 114,184 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,669 ratings — published 2019
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,914 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,236 ratings — published 2019
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,362 ratings — published 2007
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,915 ratings — published 2018
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.33 — 16,480 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,041 ratings — published 2015
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,182 ratings — published 2010
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,304 ratings — published 2012
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,418 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,247 ratings — published 2010
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,812 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,053 ratings — published 1985
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,610 ratings — published 1984
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,777 ratings — published 1994
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,044 ratings — published 2022
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,257 ratings — published 2020
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,535 ratings — published 2018
