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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,542 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,838 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,001 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,098 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,390 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,865 ratings — published 1999
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,907 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.17 — 612,494 ratings — published 2011
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,773 ratings — published 1979
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,998 ratings — published 1980
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,997 ratings — published 1987
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,903 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,525 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.19 — 887,228 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,666 ratings — published 1997
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,762 ratings — published 1989
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,298 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 4.31 — 54,926 ratings — published 2020
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,809 ratings — published 2016
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,423 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,409 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,897 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 — 222,554 ratings — published 1985
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,440 ratings — published 2016
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,895 ratings — published 2008
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,580 ratings — published 2003
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,353 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 — 42,378 ratings — published 1986
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,762 ratings — published 1995
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,776 ratings — published 2005
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,667 ratings — published 2022
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.14 — 122,653 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,111 ratings — published 2019
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.13 — 83,290 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,343 ratings — published 2019
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,508 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 4.35 — 206,130 ratings — published 2018
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,335 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,736 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 — 61,324 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,732 ratings — published 2014
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,672 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,499 ratings — published 2010
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,847 ratings — published 1985
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,886 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 4.04 — 253,204 ratings — published 1985
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,030 ratings — published 1984
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,813 ratings — published 1994
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,975 ratings — published 2017
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.58 — 14,079 ratings — published 2021