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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 192,026 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 158,275 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 245,023 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,649 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 476,703 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 800,727 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,464 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,247,789 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,806 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 205,548 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 80,002 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 861,495 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 620,526 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 852,501 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,983 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,635 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,276,644 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,075 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 113,353 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 22,979 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 194,830 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 282,468 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,109 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 224,294 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,123 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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4.36 avg rating — 200,892 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 41,656 ratings
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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4.26 avg rating — 86,805 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,062 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.30 avg rating — 33,320 ratings
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
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4.18 avg rating — 28,088 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,322 ratings
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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4.27 avg rating — 19,424 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,065 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 23,697 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 894,729 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.18 avg rating — 285,998 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
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4.26 avg rating — 42,844 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,504 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,796 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,707 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,596 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,184 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 157,133 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 216,462 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,716 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 583,193 ratings
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.26 avg rating — 216,945 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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4.11 avg rating — 20,890 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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4.21 avg rating — 22,649 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,989 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,083 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 31,500 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,473 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,535 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,436 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 21,042 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,596 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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4.21 avg rating — 30,768 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 102,057 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,364 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,178 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 21,610 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 473,062 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 34,793 ratings
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18,046 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 201,503 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,138 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,878 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 56,013 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.06 avg rating — 77,242 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,727 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,927 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 74,027 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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4.30 avg rating — 17,782 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,322 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,026 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,287 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,979 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,766 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,248 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.98 avg rating — 66,346 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 93,964 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.13 avg rating — 40,515 ratings
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.19 avg rating — 30,627 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,428 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,460 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,385 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.09 avg rating — 41,416 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 166,164 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,296 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 121,346 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,610 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 183,850 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 31,387 ratings
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
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4.14 avg rating — 13,747 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,414 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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4.20 avg rating — 32,239 ratings
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Pull: How Gravity Shapes Your Body, Steadies the Mind, and Guides Our Health
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4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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