Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Sign in with Facebook
A Nerd's Guide to Reading
Score
A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
| 101 |
|
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by
3.99 avg rating — 415,722 ratings
score: 104,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 102 |
|
Free Will
by
3.86 avg rating — 37,420 ratings
score: 100,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 102 |
|
Redwall (Redwall, #1)
by
4.14 avg rating — 127,311 ratings
score: 100,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 102 |
|
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
by
4.37 avg rating — 1,595 ratings
score: 100,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 102 |
|
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
by
Sergio Pistoi (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 100,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 106 |
|
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by
4.39 avg rating — 8,712 ratings
score: 99,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 106 |
|
Rationalist Spirituality: An Exploration of the Meaning of Life and Existence Informed by Logic and Science
by
Bernardo Kastrup (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 200 ratings
score: 99,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 106 |
|
The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret Life of the Self
by
3.58 avg rating — 430 ratings
score: 99,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 106 |
|
The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything
by
James Barrat (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 99,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 110 |
|
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
by
3.65 avg rating — 417 ratings
score: 98,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 110 |
|
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World
by
3.91 avg rating — 547 ratings
score: 98,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 110 |
|
Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
by
4.35 avg rating — 234 ratings
score: 98,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 110 |
|
The Axemaker's Gift A Double Edged History of Human Culture
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 312 ratings
score: 98,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 110 |
|
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by
4.09 avg rating — 44,005 ratings
score: 98,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 115 |
|
All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification
by
3.93 avg rating — 153 ratings
score: 97,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 115 |
|
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
by
3.81 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
score: 97,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 115 |
|
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
by
Allan H. Ropper (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 5,698 ratings
score: 97,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 118 |
|
Thought Contagion
by
3.17 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 96,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 118 |
|
On Numbers and Games
by
4.37 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 96,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 118 |
|
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by
3.76 avg rating — 24,711 ratings
score: 96,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 118 |
|
To Mars With Love
by
Patricia Ann Straat (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 96,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 122 |
|
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by
3.88 avg rating — 12,900 ratings
score: 95,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 122 |
|
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
by
4.10 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
score: 95,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 122 |
|
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by
4.11 avg rating — 268,136 ratings
score: 95,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 122 |
|
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments
by
3.76 avg rating — 4,704 ratings
score: 95,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 126 |
|
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by
Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5,949 ratings
score: 94,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 127 |
|
Science: Good Bad, and Bogus
by
3.96 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 93,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 127 |
|
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by
4.15 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
score: 93,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 127 |
|
Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
by
4.12 avg rating — 252,471 ratings
score: 93,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 127 |
|
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
by
4.09 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
score: 93,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 127 |
|
A Confession
by
4.10 avg rating — 18,990 ratings
score: 93,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 132 |
|
Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
by
3.77 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 92,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 132 |
|
From Poison Arrows to Prozac: How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
by
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 92,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 132 |
|
Out of Eden
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 430 ratings
score: 92,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 132 |
|
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
by
4.30 avg rating — 27,070 ratings
score: 92,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 136 |
|
Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge
by
Damien Broderick (Editor)
3.74 avg rating — 163 ratings
score: 91,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 136 |
|
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
by
3.77 avg rating — 2,756 ratings
score: 91,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 136 |
|
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
by
4.12 avg rating — 28,491 ratings
score: 91,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 139 |
|
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance
by
4.38 avg rating — 407 ratings
score: 90,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 139 |
|
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
by
3.94 avg rating — 1,752 ratings
score: 90,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 139 |
|
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by
Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 28,490 ratings
score: 90,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 139 |
|
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by
3.86 avg rating — 72,286 ratings
score: 90,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 143 |
|
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
by
4.31 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
score: 89,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 143 |
|
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by
3.95 avg rating — 73,189 ratings
score: 89,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 143 |
|
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
by
4.19 avg rating — 1,759 ratings
score: 89,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 143 |
|
The Lathe of Heaven
by
4.13 avg rating — 85,292 ratings
score: 89,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 147 |
|
Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
by
3.87 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
score: 88,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 147 |
|
Mockingbird
by
4.16 avg rating — 11,850 ratings
score: 88,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 149 |
|
Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture
by
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 87,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 149 |
|
Technogenesis
by
3.91 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 87,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 151 |
|
Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience
by
3.98 avg rating — 345 ratings
score: 86,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 152 |
|
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
by
4.22 avg rating — 8,799 ratings
score: 85,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 153 |
|
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
by
4.04 avg rating — 10,584 ratings
score: 84,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 153 |
|
Inventing the Future (revised and updated edition): Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by
3.97 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
score: 84,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 155 |
|
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
by
3.98 avg rating — 408 ratings
score: 83,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 155 |
|
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by
3.51 avg rating — 672,650 ratings
score: 83,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 155 |
|
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
by
3.77 avg rating — 5,130 ratings
score: 83,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 158 |
|
The Jungle
by
3.78 avg rating — 152,890 ratings
score: 82,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 158 |
|
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
by
4.24 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
score: 82,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 160 |
|
The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
by
3.84 avg rating — 467 ratings
score: 81,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 160 |
|
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
by
4.03 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
score: 81,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 162 |
|
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by
4.06 avg rating — 21,457 ratings
score: 80,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 162 |
|
War and Peace
by
4.17 avg rating — 359,075 ratings
score: 80,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 162 |
|
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by
Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 110,976 ratings
score: 80,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 165 |
|
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability
by
4.11 avg rating — 3,337 ratings
score: 79,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 166 |
|
The Power of the Powerless
by
4.21 avg rating — 3,820 ratings
score: 78,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 167 |
|
Beauty in the Word
by
4.23 avg rating — 420 ratings
score: 77,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 168 |
|
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [Oct 25, 2016] Scruton, Roger
by
4.13 avg rating — 241 ratings
score: 76,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 169 |
|
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
by
3.70 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
score: 74,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 170 |
|
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative
by
4.12 avg rating — 211 ratings
score: 73,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 171 |
|
This Side of Paradise
by
3.63 avg rating — 79,040 ratings
score: 72,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 171 |
|
Against Method
by
4.02 avg rating — 3,463 ratings
score: 72,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 173 |
|
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by
4.12 avg rating — 129,859 ratings
score: 70,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 174 |
|
The Ways of the World
by
3.99 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 69,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 175 |
|
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by
3.81 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
score: 68,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 176 |
|
Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
by
3.53 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
score: 67,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 176 |
|
Critical Path
by
4.22 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
score: 67,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 178 |
|
War Is a Racket
by
4.27 avg rating — 8,255 ratings
score: 66,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 178 |
|
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
by
4.21 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
score: 66,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 180 |
|
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by
4.08 avg rating — 261,246 ratings
score: 65,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 180 |
|
Reasons and Persons
by
4.27 avg rating — 1,848 ratings
score: 65,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 182 |
|
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by
Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 32,452 ratings
score: 64,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 182 |
|
The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
by
4.08 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
score: 64,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 184 |
|
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by
3.88 avg rating — 34,508 ratings
score: 63,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 184 |
|
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
by
Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
score: 63,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 184 |
|
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
by
4.08 avg rating — 24,006 ratings
score: 63,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 187 |
|
The Communist Manifesto
by
3.68 avg rating — 191,225 ratings
score: 62,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 187 |
|
Modernism in the Streets: A Life and Times in Essays
by
3.95 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 62,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 189 |
|
Swiss Made: The Untold Story Behind Switzerland's Success
by
R. James Breiding (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 191 ratings
score: 61,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 190 |
|
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
by
3.72 avg rating — 274 ratings
score: 60,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 191 |
|
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by
4.18 avg rating — 30,721 ratings
score: 59,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 192 |
|
Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by
3.94 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
score: 58,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 193 |
|
The Guns of August
by
4.18 avg rating — 83,165 ratings
score: 57,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 194 |
|
Salt: A World History
by
3.75 avg rating — 75,552 ratings
score: 56,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 194 |
|
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
by
4.13 avg rating — 7,091 ratings
score: 56,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 196 |
|
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
by
3.62 avg rating — 514 ratings
score: 54,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 197 |
|
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
by
4.18 avg rating — 3,771 ratings
score: 53,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 197 |
|
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought
by
4.44 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 53,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 199 |
|
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by
4.35 avg rating — 4,841 ratings
score: 52,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 200 |
|
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by
4.02 avg rating — 9,836 ratings
score: 51,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
Christina
7288 books
113 friends
113 friends
Alessandra
2196 books
62 friends
62 friends
Martha
1956 books
26 friends
26 friends
Melinda
473 books
43 friends
43 friends
Bruno
878 books
0 friends
0 friends
Torabushi
287 books
0 friends
0 friends
Margalit
5 books
115 friends
115 friends
Jacqueline
1253 books
67 friends
67 friends
More voters…
Comments Showing 1-1 of 1 (1 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Zehra
(new)
Dec 02, 2021 02:20AM
List is very beneficial.
reply
|
flag
Related News
Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we sort through a lot of books each month. Our monthly Readers' Most Anticipated Books feature is...
Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
