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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 473,941 ratings — published 1988
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 237,663 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 796,860 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,234,755 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 418,110 ratings — published 2003
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 203,810 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,798 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 157,521 ratings — published 1980
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,727 ratings — published 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,939 ratings — published 2010
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,141 ratings — published 1976
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,951 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,529 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.51 — 166,779 ratings — published 2013
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,759 ratings — published 1999
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 34,288 ratings — published 2022
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 243,513 ratings — published 1985
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,550 ratings — published 1995
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,955 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 221,992 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,011 ratings — published 2016
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,678 ratings — published 1994
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 49,493 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 97,656 ratings — published 2019
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,207 ratings — published 2013
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,534 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,230 ratings — published 1859
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,100 ratings — published 2006
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 181,936 ratings — published 2016
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,481 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,047 ratings — published 2015
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,189 ratings — published 2016
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 142,973 ratings — published 2025
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,810 ratings — published 2006
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,304 ratings — published 2008
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,856 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 268,769 ratings — published 2014
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,515 ratings — published 2016
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 451,992 ratings — published 1997
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 163,621 ratings — published 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 577,912 ratings — published 2011
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,869 ratings — published 2010
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,544 ratings — published 2008
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,820 ratings — published 2015
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.49 — 214,798 ratings — published 2014
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,515 ratings — published 2015
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 892,180 ratings — published 2005
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,834 ratings — published 1995
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,729 ratings — published 2022
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nonfiction-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,192 ratings — published 2021
