Science books you loved (382 books)

Science books you loved

Popular or even technical science books that you thought were really well done

1	A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 4.13 avg rating — 35,470 ratings score: 13,728, and 140 people voted	My rating:
2	A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 3.98 avg rating — 24,452 ratings score: 11,206, and 114 people voted	My rating:
3	Cosmos by Carl Sagan 4.33 avg rating — 8,267 ratings score: 9,902, and 101 people voted	My rating:
4	The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 10,724 ratings score: 8,191, and 84 people voted	My rating:
5	The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene 4.03 avg rating — 9,702 ratings score: 6,315, and 64 people voted	My rating:
6	The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 4.34 avg rating — 6,955 ratings score: 5,942, and 61 people voted	My rating:
7	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 3.95 avg rating — 40,716 ratings score: 5,429, and 56 people voted	My rating:
8	The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston 3.96 avg rating — 15,178 ratings score: 4,222, and 43 people voted	My rating:
9	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4.30 avg rating — 7,139 ratings score: 3,980, and 41 people voted	My rating:
10	The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 29,598 ratings score: 3,935, and 41 people voted	My rating:
11	The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 3,101 ratings score: 3,899, and 40 people voted	My rating:
12	The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 3.88 avg rating — 9,607 ratings score: 3,448, and 35 people voted	My rating:
13	The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking 3.97 avg rating — 4,682 ratings score: 3,389, and 35 people voted	My rating:
14	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt 3.74 avg rating — 167,630 ratings score: 3,186, and 33 people voted	My rating:
15	The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 4,667 ratings score: 3,172, and 33 people voted	My rating:
16	Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick 3.94 avg rating — 3,725 ratings score: 3,083, and 32 people voted	My rating:
17	The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman 4.56 avg rating — 924 ratings score: 3,012, and 31 people voted	My rating:
18	The World Without Us by Alan Weisman 3.76 avg rating — 9,737 ratings score: 2,703, and 27 people voted	My rating:
19	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.28 avg rating — 12,354 ratings score: 2,582, and 28 people voted	My rating:
20	The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 5,404 ratings score: 2,375, and 25 people voted	My rating:
21	Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh 4.12 avg rating — 2,948 ratings score: 2,329, and 24 people voted	My rating:
22	The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker 4.05 avg rating — 3,180 ratings score: 2,194, and 23 people voted	My rating:
23	The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene 4.10 avg rating — 4,090 ratings score: 2,129, and 22 people voted	My rating:
24	Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman 4.12 avg rating — 2,145 ratings score: 2,089, and 22 people voted	My rating:
25	The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas 4.15 avg rating — 1,192 ratings score: 1,945, and 20 people voted	My rating:
26	Genome by Matt Ridley 4.00 avg rating — 2,932 ratings score: 1,918, and 20 people voted	My rating:
27	Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould 4.19 avg rating — 1,158 ratings score: 1,916, and 20 people voted	My rating:
28	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 3.98 avg rating — 17,716 ratings score: 1,906, and 20 people voted	My rating:
29	Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams 4.30 avg rating — 4,340 ratings score: 1,888, and 21 people voted	My rating:
30	How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker 3.99 avg rating — 2,425 ratings score: 1,701, and 18 people voted	My rating:
31	The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 4.35 avg rating — 2,146 ratings score: 1,566, and 16 people voted	My rating:
32	Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel 3.84 avg rating — 6,810 ratings score: 1,510, and 16 people voted	My rating:
33	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond 3.87 avg rating — 12,815 ratings score: 1,496, and 16 people voted	My rating:
34	The Tao Of Physics by Fritjof Capra 3.83 avg rating — 2,630 ratings score: 1,485, and 16 people voted	My rating:
35	Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan 4.32 avg rating — 2,569 ratings score: 1,483, and 16 people voted	My rating:
36	Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku 4.12 avg rating — 2,342 ratings score: 1,457, and 15 people voted	My rating:
37	Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson 4.04 avg rating — 1,930 ratings score: 1,454, and 15 people voted	My rating:
38	The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry 3.83 avg rating — 3,597 ratings score: 1,426, and 15 people voted	My rating:
39	Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 2,332 ratings score: 1,424, and 15 people voted	My rating:
40	The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan 4.11 avg rating — 2,368 ratings score: 1,360, and 15 people voted	My rating:
41	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 50,464 ratings score: 1,319, and 15 people voted	My rating:
42	The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow 3.72 avg rating — 2,768 ratings score: 1,317, and 14 people voted	My rating:
43	The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean 3.85 avg rating — 3,236 ratings score: 1,268, and 14 people voted	My rating:
44	Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife 3.85 avg rating — 1,873 ratings score: 1,234, and 13 people voted	My rating:
45	Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell 3.99 avg rating — 57,247 ratings score: 1,227, and 13 people voted	My rating:
46	The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman 4.07 avg rating — 2,330 ratings score: 1,207, and 13 people voted	My rating:
47	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 3.93 avg rating — 3,060 ratings score: 1,184, and 13 people voted	My rating:
48	The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski 4.16 avg rating — 514 ratings score: 1,160, and 12 people voted	My rating:
49	The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson 3.78 avg rating — 759 ratings score: 1,139, and 12 people voted	My rating:
50	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 4.08 avg rating — 1,041 ratings score: 1,102, and 12 people voted	My rating:
51	The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett 4.20 avg rating — 1,623 ratings score: 1,069, and 11 people voted	My rating:
52	The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 4.28 avg rating — 167 ratings score: 1,057, and 11 people voted	My rating:
53	Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery Of All Time And Why You Need To Know About It by Simon Singh 4.19 avg rating — 1,207 ratings score: 1,052, and 11 people voted	My rating:
54	Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 4.12 avg rating — 635 ratings score: 977, and 11 people voted	My rating:
55	The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould 4.07 avg rating — 1,776 ratings score: 923, and 10 people voted	My rating:
56	Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier 4.19 avg rating — 1,599 ratings score: 880, and 9 people voted	My rating:
57	Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 3.71 avg rating — 32,815 ratings score: 877, and 9 people voted	My rating:
57	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson 3.86 avg rating — 5,384 ratings score: 877, and 9 people voted	My rating:
59	Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson 3.94 avg rating — 210 ratings score: 853, and 9 people voted	My rating:
60	The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner 4.10 avg rating — 1,306 ratings score: 843, and 9 people voted	My rating:
61	Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav 3.92 avg rating — 2,169 ratings score: 829, and 9 people voted	My rating:
62	The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan 4.30 avg rating — 1,474 ratings score: 812, and 9 people voted	My rating:
63	Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carl Sagan 3.98 avg rating — 1,441 ratings score: 810, and 9 people voted	My rating:
64	The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth by James Burke 4.25 avg rating — 320 ratings score: 788, and 9 people voted	My rating:
65	Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... by Philip C. Plait 4.19 avg rating — 685 ratings score: 752, and 8 people voted	My rating:
66	The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker 4.05 avg rating — 2,582 ratings score: 730, and 8 people voted	My rating:
67	Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne 4.16 avg rating — 584 ratings score: 728, and 8 people voted	My rating:
68	Blink by Malcolm Gladwell 3.72 avg rating — 70,996 ratings score: 725, and 8 people voted	My rating:
69	The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright 4.02 avg rating — 1,296 ratings score: 719, and 8 people voted	My rating:
70	Man and his Symbols by C.G. Jung 4.11 avg rating — 3,147 ratings score: 707, and 8 people voted	My rating:
71	Bad Science by Ben Goldacre 4.12 avg rating — 2,697 ratings score: 680, and 7 people voted	My rating:
72	Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein 4.07 avg rating — 1,641 ratings score: 671, and 7 people voted	My rating:
73	How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff 3.78 avg rating — 745 ratings score: 652, and 7 people voted	My rating:
74	QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman 4.17 avg rating — 1,483 ratings score: 648, and 7 people voted	My rating:
75	An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore 3.75 avg rating — 2,795 ratings score: 626, and 7 people voted	My rating:
76	The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond 3.97 avg rating — 3,228 ratings score: 611, and 7 people voted	My rating:
77	The Diversity of Life by Edward Osborne Wilson 4.16 avg rating — 652 ratings score: 598, and 7 people voted	My rating:
78	The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh 4.21 avg rating — 2,780 ratings score: 584, and 6 people voted	My rating:
79	The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose 3.65 avg rating — 797 ratings score: 573, and 6 people voted	My rating:
80	The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson 3.68 avg rating — 2,485 ratings score: 571, and 6 people voted	My rating:
81	The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking 3.78 avg rating — 4,119 ratings score: 558, and 6 people voted	My rating:
82	Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata 3.74 avg rating — 1,089 ratings score: 488, and 5 people voted	My rating:
83	A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold 4.18 avg rating — 4,158 ratings score: 471, and 5 people voted	My rating:
84	Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 431 ratings score: 469, and 5 people voted	My rating:
85	Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel 3.58 avg rating — 5,589 ratings score: 468, and 5 people voted	My rating:
86	One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow 4.11 avg rating — 261 ratings score: 467, and 5 people voted	My rating:
87	Annals of the Former World by John McPhee 4.37 avg rating — 633 ratings score: 465, and 5 people voted	My rating:
88	Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku 4.03 avg rating — 2,696 ratings score: 459, and 5 people voted	My rating:
89	The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman 4.20 avg rating — 434 ratings score: 456, and 5 people voted	My rating:
90	The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin 3.86 avg rating — 795 ratings score: 445, and 5 people voted	My rating:
91	Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman 4.12 avg rating — 587 ratings score: 442, and 5 people voted	My rating:
92	The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier 3.62 avg rating — 1,074 ratings score: 390, and 4 people voted	My rating:
93	The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins 3.69 avg rating — 1,728 ratings score: 384, and 4 people voted	My rating:
94	Mr Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, and h by George Gamow 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 376, and 4 people voted	My rating:
95	The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl R. Popper 3.93 avg rating — 481 ratings score: 375, and 4 people voted	My rating:
96	The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen 4.42 avg rating — 1,112 ratings score: 371, and 4 people voted	My rating:
96	The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan 4.02 avg rating — 12,995 ratings score: 371, and 4 people voted	My rating:
98	Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun [With CD] by David L. Goodstein 4.24 avg rating — 119 ratings score: 369, and 4 people voted	My rating:
99	SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt 3.76 avg rating — 14,829 ratings score: 363, and 4 people voted	My rating:
100	Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics by Ian Stewart 3.55 avg rating — 123 ratings score: 355, and 4 people voted	My rating: