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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2001 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 135,860 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1568 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 62,523 ratings — published 1976
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1430 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 234,196 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by Brian Greene (shelved 1403 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 51,231 ratings — published 1999
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by Charles Darwin (shelved 1322 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 54,019 ratings — published 1859
Cosmos (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 1259 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 46,997 ratings — published 1980
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 1123 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 40,333 ratings — published 1995
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1027 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,770 ratings — published 2009
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 989 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 95,088 ratings — published 2003
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 936 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 122,638 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 935 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 154,610 ratings — published 1997
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 883 times as science)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,284 ratings — published 1985
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 818 times as science)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,320 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality)
by Brian Greene (shelved 813 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,806 ratings — published 2003
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 Sam Kean (shelved 779 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,560 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 773 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 23,330 ratings — published 1986
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 747 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 30,593 ratings — published 2010
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 746 times as science)
avg rating 3.80 — 36,952 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 683 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,613 ratings — published 1985
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 629 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 20,310 ratings — published 2004
Bad Science (Paperback)
by Ben Goldacre (shelved 607 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,772 ratings — published 2008
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (Hardcover)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 595 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,389 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: The Making of a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 586 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,575 ratings — published 1987
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 573 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 35,289 ratings — published 1979
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Hardcover)
by Neil deGrasse Tyson (shelved 565 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,992 ratings — published 2006
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 541 times as science)
avg rating 3.78 — 32,598 ratings — published 2007
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 539 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 19,877 ratings — published 1994
The Hot Zone (Hardcover)
by Richard Preston (shelved 534 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 41,131 ratings — published 1989
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 521 times as science)
avg rating 3.53 — 26,160 ratings — published 2005
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 511 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,768 ratings — published 1995
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 510 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,842 ratings — published 1988
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by Matt Ridley (shelved 504 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,726 ratings — published 1999
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author) (shelved 496 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,545 ratings — published 2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 493 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 13,187 ratings — published 1962
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 442 times as science)
avg rating 3.83 — 388,805 ratings — published 2001
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Paperback)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 434 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,873 ratings — published 2001
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 429 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,671 ratings — published 1993
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 419 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,618 ratings — published 2005
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by Brian Greene (shelved 413 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,484 ratings — published 2011
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 406 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,801 ratings — published 2006
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 398 times as science)
avg rating 3.84 — 35,522 ratings — published 2007
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 398 times as science)
avg rating 3.80 — 217,144 ratings — published 2005
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 397 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,725 ratings — published 1977
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 394 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 53,567 ratings — published 2005
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 385 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,112 ratings — published 1991
Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. Coyne (shelved 384 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,619 ratings — published 2008
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by Lawrence M. Krauss (shelved 380 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,956 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by James D. Watson (shelved 373 times as science)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,305 ratings — published 1968
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 350 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,402 ratings — published 1998
Billions and Billions (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 348 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,834 ratings — published 1997
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
The Blind Prophet (Quattuor Angulus Series)
7 chapters — updated Dec 27, 2010 12:49pm — 3 people liked it
7 chapters — updated Dec 27, 2010 12:49pm — 3 people liked it
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