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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,992 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,641 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,948 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,588 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 — 40,010 ratings
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The Hot Zone
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4.16 avg rating — 121,133 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,514 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 59,444 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 28,734 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 33,722 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,735 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 — 59,293 ratings
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Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America
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4.09 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 158,315 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 800,917 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,072 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,396 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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4.32 avg rating — 26,046 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,249 ratings
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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3.95 avg rating — 2,140 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 88,376 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 80,018 ratings
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The Life of Mammals
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4.40 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,434 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 205,600 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
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4.06 avg rating — 20,439 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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4.15 avg rating — 21,360 ratings
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
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4.32 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Mind of the Raven
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,194 ratings
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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4.26 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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4.23 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
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3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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4.06 avg rating — 4,401 ratings
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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4.22 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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4.13 avg rating — 3,610 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 — 41,665 ratings
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Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
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4.14 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,095 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,545 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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3.88 avg rating — 21,806 ratings
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
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4.39 avg rating — 12,544 ratings
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The Life of Birds
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4.41 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
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3.95 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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4.42 avg rating — 20,393 ratings
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
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4.12 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
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The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
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3.80 avg rating — 1,029 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 — 31,509 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,921 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 — 102,061 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,301 ratings
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Remarkable Trees of the World
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4.41 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.11 avg rating — 6,672 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 192,060 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,648 ratings
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Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
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3.97 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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3.80 avg rating — 2,682 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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3.98 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,408 ratings
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
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3.98 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,021 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 118,802 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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4.06 avg rating — 9,886 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 27,975 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,008 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,340 ratings
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
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4.17 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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4.24 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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4.18 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves
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3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights
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3.59 avg rating — 120 ratings
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In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians
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4.63 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
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3.75 avg rating — 2,763 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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4.02 avg rating — 10,637 ratings
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After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
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4.17 avg rating — 246 ratings
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On Aggression
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4.04 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
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3.83 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Living Forest: A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods
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4.52 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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4.24 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
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Art Forms in Nature
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4.13 avg rating — 7,674 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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3.63 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,192 ratings
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The Ends of the World
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4.29 avg rating — 6,072 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.21 avg rating — 6,230 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,678 ratings
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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3.79 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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3.91 avg rating — 22,163 ratings
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Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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4.14 avg rating — 55,271 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.72 avg rating — 369 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.05 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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3.92 avg rating — 2,740 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,989 ratings
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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
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3.98 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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4.05 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
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4.10 avg rating — 971 ratings
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
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3.77 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (Ft Press Science Series)
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3.73 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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4.08 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
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Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
Removed, for not being about science:
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
There are also a variety of dieting books on here, which I am not removing, though I do question their presence.