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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,456 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,643 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,965 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,228 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,507 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,282 ratings — published 1999
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,103 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,652 ratings — published 2011
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,088 ratings — published 1979
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,005 ratings — published 1980
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,245 ratings — published 1987
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,268 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,390 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.19 — 892,121 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,905 ratings — published 1997
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,792 ratings — published 1989
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,457 ratings — published 2008
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,798 ratings — published 2020
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,271 ratings — published 2016
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,404 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,759 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,730 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,436 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.26 — 223,940 ratings — published 1985
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,813 ratings — published 2016
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,213 ratings — published 2018
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,010 ratings — published 2008
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,413 ratings — published 1997
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,555 ratings — published 1986
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,354 ratings — published 1995
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,614 ratings — published 2005
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,333 ratings — published 2022
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.14 — 124,050 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,208 ratings — published 2019
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 84,099 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.33 — 183,117 ratings — published 2019
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,223 ratings — published 2007
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,517 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,460 ratings — published 2015
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,522 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,298 ratings — published 2014
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,717 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,735 ratings — published 2010
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,934 ratings — published 1985
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,361 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,961 ratings — published 1985
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,100 ratings — published 1984
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,074 ratings — published 1994
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,622 ratings — published 2017
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as popsci)
avg rating 4.58 — 14,287 ratings — published 2021