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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,723 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,247,930 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,478 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,035 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,283 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,839 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,261 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,041 ratings — published 1985
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,557 ratings — published 2017
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,059 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,836 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 154 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,010 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,768 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 224,320 ratings — published 2017
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,003 ratings — published 1995
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 216,958 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,477 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,244 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,658 ratings — published 1986
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,871 ratings — published 1987
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,720 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,028 ratings — published 2009
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,437 ratings — published 2016
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,810 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,747 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,756 ratings — published 2005
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,418 ratings — published 2008
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,518 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,390 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,318 ratings — published 1997
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,657 ratings — published 2019
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,877 ratings — published 1999
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,352 ratings — published 2014
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,972 ratings — published 1999
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,502 ratings — published 2016
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,083 ratings — published 2003
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,535 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 861,522 ratings — published 2008
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 86 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,014 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,655 ratings — published 1859
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,219 ratings — published 2001
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,896 ratings — published 2018
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,670 ratings — published 2004
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 852,523 ratings — published 2000
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,773 ratings — published 1994
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,981 ratings — published 2014
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,344 ratings — published 1994
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,124 ratings — published 2017
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,667 ratings — published 2018
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,142 ratings — published 2008
“For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.”
― Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
― Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
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