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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12724 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,377 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8533 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,639 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7285 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,601 ratings — published 1976
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7175 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,053 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6998 times as science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,428 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6755 times as science)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,379 ratings — published 1980
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6037 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 832,372 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5863 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,923 ratings — published 2014
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5427 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,967 ratings — published 1859
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4916 times as science)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,571 ratings — published 1995
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4858 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,431 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4242 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,196 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4240 times as science)
avg rating 4.36 — 240,121 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4110 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,416 ratings — published 2016
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 4107 times as science)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,384 ratings — published 1985
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3868 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,033 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3677 times as science)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,528 ratings — published 2014
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 3424 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 58,293 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 3349 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 255,654 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3343 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,067 ratings — published 1997
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3288 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,760 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3262 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,817 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3165 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,167 ratings — published 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3095 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 620,628 ratings — published 2011
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3074 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,674 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3015 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,066 ratings — published 2015
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2990 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,895 ratings — published 2018
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2979 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,562 ratings — published 2019
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2973 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,269 ratings — published 1962
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2948 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,913 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2865 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,883 ratings — published 2006
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2784 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,429 ratings — published 1987
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2692 times as science)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,170 ratings — published 1979
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2647 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,012 ratings — published 1994
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2601 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,595 ratings — published 2010
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2572 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,799 ratings — published 2017
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2546 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,602 ratings — published 1986
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2524 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,100 ratings — published 2020
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2516 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,362 ratings — published 2001
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2515 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,882 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2432 times as science)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,282 ratings — published 2018
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2403 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,879 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2365 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,634 ratings — published 2008
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2299 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,259 ratings — published 2008
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 2264 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,166 ratings — published 1994
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2260 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,686 ratings — published 1999
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2255 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,955 ratings — published 2006
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2215 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,195 ratings — published 2008
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2205 times as science)
avg rating 4.50 — 192,020 ratings — published 2013
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2135 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,915 ratings — published 1994
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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