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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,209 ratings — published 1988
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,970 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,222 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,354 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,790 ratings — published 2011
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,500 ratings — published 2014
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.05 — 241,640 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,160 ratings — published 1997
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.08 — 201,717 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,934 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,089 ratings — published 2008
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,493 ratings — published 1980
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,726 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.37 — 218,469 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,538 ratings — published 2008
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,391 ratings — published 1999
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,787 ratings — published 2010
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,886 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,436 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,477 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,885 ratings — published 1979
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.34 — 111,987 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,361 ratings — published 2015
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.29 — 78,954 ratings — published 1995
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 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,340 ratings — published 2010
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.01 — 846,976 ratings — published 2000
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,960 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,307 ratings — published 1986
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,681 ratings — published 2010
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,750 ratings — published 2016
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,959 ratings — published 2007
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,410 ratings — published 2006
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,330 ratings — published 2008
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,505 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,327 ratings — published 2016
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,040 ratings — published 2012
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,309 ratings — published 1994
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,731 ratings — published 2008
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,629 ratings — published 1999
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,098 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,171 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,867 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,573 ratings — published 1985
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,954 ratings — published 1997
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 3.95 — 156,084 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,645 ratings — published 2009
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.17 — 22,401 ratings — published 2019
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,771 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,197 ratings — published 2012
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pop-sci)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,843 ratings — published 2009
