Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work. ...more

The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
Wither
Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines
Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life
Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
Hawking: His Life and Work
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy
How to Keep a Plane in the Sky: Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard
The World Beneath Our Feet: The Hidden Life of Soil and Why It Matters to Us All
Think Before You Think: Understanding and Mastering Executive Function
The Vanishing Earth: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction
  • A Mother's Brain by Susana Carmona
    A Mother's Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution
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    Release date: Oct 06, 2026
    A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the author’s own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolesce ...more
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  • Multiplicity by Telmo Pievani
    Multiplicity: A Scientist’s Journey into Evolutionary Space

    Release date: Oct 06, 2026
    The awe-inspiring, little-known story of Nobel laureate Frances Arnold’s discovery of directed enzyme evolution—and how it was sparked by reading Jorg ...more
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  • Somebody Should Do Something by Michael  Brownstein
    Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
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    Release date: Aug 11, 2026
    A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.

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    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
    Elon Musk
    Abundance
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
    The Polymorph
    Playground
    The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
    The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
    Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
    Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    575 books — 452 voters

    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsDune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
    best hard science fiction
    453 books — 880 voters
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittBorn To Rise by Lorna  BlakeA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonLean In by Sheryl SandbergFirst Time Dad by James        Macdonald
    Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
    4,676 books — 3,525 voters

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonCoraline by Neil GaimanHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
    Trippy Books
    855 books — 911 voters
    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauNature Calls Outside My Window, A Collection of Poems and Sto... by Suzanne  CottrellA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
    Best Nature Books
    1,175 books — 1,004 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    The Gene: An Intimate History
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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