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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Seven Ages of Death
Quo vAIdis
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
Quantum Supremacy
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Selfish Gene
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cosmos
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Bad Science
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth ShapiroResurrection Science by M.R.  O'ConnorRise of the Necrofauna by Britt WrayWoolly by Ben MezrichFrankenstein's Cat by Emily Anthes
De-Extinction Science
15 books — 12 voters

I Contain Multitudes by Ed YongThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteBad Blood by John CarreyrouHeart by Sandeep JauharThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Sciencefriday's Best Science Books
137 books — 17 voters
Shamanism by Manvir   SinghA Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather E. HeyingRace Marxism by James   LindsayCynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Decoding the Gurus Podcast
86 books — 2 voters

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. RamachandranStuff Matters by Mark MiodownikCollapse by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLiquid Rules by Mark Miodownik
Armchair Science Books
28 books — 7 voters
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanMy Brief History by Stephen W. HawkingTesla by Margaret CheneyGenius  by James GleickThe Queen's Conjurer by Benjamin Woolley
Science Biographies
50 books — 12 voters


Mary Roach
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Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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