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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,516 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,881 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,087 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,820 ratings — published 2003
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,994 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,385 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 612,448 ratings — published 2011
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,413 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 253,189 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,645 ratings — published 1997
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,860 ratings — published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 153 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,724 ratings — published 2015
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,881 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,298 ratings — published 2008
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,758 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 — 222,545 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,549 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,496 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 — 42,375 ratings — published 1986
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,894 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,945 ratings — published 2009
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,996 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,806 ratings — published 2016
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,860 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,508 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,305 ratings — published 2010
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,057 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 4.12 — 41,448 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,772 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,097 ratings — published 1997
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,507 ratings — published 1999
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,106 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,404 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,688 ratings — published 2014
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 887,196 ratings — published 2008
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,767 ratings — published 2005
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 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,799 ratings — published 2010
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,489 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,570 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,122 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,268 ratings — published 1859
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,812 ratings — published 1994
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,099 ratings — published 2001
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,003 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 — 866,073 ratings — published 2000
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,974 ratings — published 2017
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,730 ratings — published 2014
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,705 ratings — published 1994
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,647 ratings — published 2018
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,922 ratings — published 2020
“If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort”
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“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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