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Science books you loved
Popular or even technical science books that you thought were really well done
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson 35 people voted »
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Cosmos
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan 31 people voted »
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) 30 people voted »
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen W. Hawking 27 people voted »
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn o...
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) 16 people voted »
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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen W. Hawking 14 people voted »
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick 11 people voted »
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Feynman Lectures on Physics
Feynman Lectures on Physics
by Richard P. Feynman 9 people voted »
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The World Without Us
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman 8 people voted »
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The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) 8 people voted »
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier 7 people voted »
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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas 7 people voted »
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How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker 7 people voted »
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston 6 people voted »
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parall...
by Michio Kaku 5 people voted »
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The Tao of Physics
The Tao of Physics
by Fritjof Capra 5 people voted »
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Ch...
by Matt Ridley 5 people voted »
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes 4 people voted »
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The New Way Things Work
The New Way Things Work
by David Macaulay 4 people voted »
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the W...
by Philip C. Plait 4 people voted »
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Sophie's World
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder 4 people voted »
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the Wo...
by Simon Singh 4 people voted »
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The Ascent of Man
The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski 3 people voted »
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our L...
by Leonard Mlodinow 3 people voted »
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Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New P...
by Gary Zukav 3 people voted »
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Dead...
by John M. Barry 3 people voted »
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion...
by Neil Shubin (Goodreads author) 3 people voted »
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Sc...
by Carl Sagan 2 people voted »
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Fini...
by Janna Levin 2 people voted »
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
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Poetry of the Universe
Poetry of the Universe
by Robert Osserman 2 people voted »
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould 2 people voted »
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behi...
by Richard A. Muller 2 people voted »
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
by Stephen J. Blundell 2 people voted »
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Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols
by Carl Gustav Jung 2 people voted »
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene 2 people voted »
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
by Stephen Jay Gould 2 people voted »
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One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculati...
by George Gamow 2 people voted »
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, M...
by Roger Penrose 2 people voted »
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageo...
by Kip S. Thorne 2 people voted »
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Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Di...
by Hal Hellman 2 people voted »
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Mr Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, and h
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, a...
by George Gamow 2 people voted »
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Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance
Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Bod...
by Kenneth Kamler 1 person voted »
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A Scientist at the Seashore
A Scientist at the Seashore
by James S. Trefil 1 person voted »
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Killer Germs
Killer Germs
by Barry E. Zimmerman, David J. Zimmerman 1 person voted »
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The Science Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Science
The Science Book: 250 Milestones in the History...
by Susan Greenfield 1 person voted »
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Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene
by Natalie Angier 1 person voted »
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
by Charles Seife 1 person voted »
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Quantum Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery
Quantum Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory...
by Johnjoe McFadden 1 person voted »
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: T...
by Robert Wright 1 person voted »
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The Diversity of Life
The Diversity of Life
by Edward O. Wilson 1 person voted »
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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The Seven Mysteries of Life
The Seven Mysteries of Life
by Guy Murchie 1 person voted »
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker 1 person voted »
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover ...
by Steve Ettlinger 1 person voted »
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Ba...
by Natalie Angier 1 person voted »
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Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments
Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Bi...
by John C. Lilly 1 person voted »
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Eve's Rib: Searching for the Biological Roots of Sex Differences
Eve's Rib: Searching for the Biological Roots o...
by Robert Pool 1 person voted »
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meani...
by Nick Lane 1 person voted »
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Having Faith
Having Faith
by Sandra Steingraber 1 person voted »
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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathema...
by Ian Stewart 1 person voted »
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The Planets
The Planets
by Dava Sobel 1 person voted »
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Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a ...
by Joao Magueijo 1 person voted »
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Entropy:  A New World View
Entropy: A New World View
by Jeremy Rifkin 1 person voted »
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The Invention That Changed the World
The Invention That Changed the World
by Robert Buderi 1 person voted »
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Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
by Mabel Armstrong 1 person voted »
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The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprisi...
by Jonny Bowden 1 person voted »
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Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civiliza...
by Robert Zubrin 1 person voted »
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Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home f...
by Buzz Aldrin 1 person voted »
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fi...
by John Emsley 1 person voted »
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The Deep Hot Biosphere
The Deep Hot Biosphere
by Thomas Gold 1 person voted »
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The Case for Mars
The Case for Mars
by Robert Zubrin 1 person voted »
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Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intrig...
by John Emsley 1 person voted »
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
by Bryan Burrough 1 person voted »
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Saturn: A New View
Saturn: A New View
by Laura Lovett 1 person voted »
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Perso...
by Carl Sagan 1 person voted »
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The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman 1 person voted »
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588813 I adore Sophie's World, but it's a philosophy book rather than a science book.


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