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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 413 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,233 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,127 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,285 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,934 ratings — published 2003
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,759 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,893 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 572,747 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 242,152 ratings — published 1985
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,507 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,194 ratings — published 1997
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 202,225 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 154 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,066 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,576 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 219,363 ratings — published 2017
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,115 ratings — published 1995
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,938 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,696 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,833 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,354 ratings — published 1986
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,499 ratings — published 1987
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,711 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,249 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,626 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 889,802 ratings — published 2005
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,362 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,097 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,231 ratings — published 2004
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,184 ratings — published 2008
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,005 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,944 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,678 ratings — published 2019
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,306 ratings — published 2003
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,654 ratings — published 1999
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,864 ratings — published 2016
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,793 ratings — published 1999
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 617,308 ratings — published 2005
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,150 ratings — published 2014
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 852,675 ratings — published 2008
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 85 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,453 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,811 ratings — published 1859
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,918 ratings — published 2001
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 847,821 ratings — published 2000
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,532 ratings — published 2004
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,913 ratings — published 2018
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,390 ratings — published 1994
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,962 ratings — published 1994
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,635 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,066 ratings — published 2014
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 37,205 ratings — published 2017
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,793 ratings — published 2008
“The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.”
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“For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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