Science General Books
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,419 ratings — published 2003
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,560 ratings — published 2014
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,781 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,599 ratings — published 1962
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,416 ratings — published 1976
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,585 ratings — published 1988
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,624 ratings — published 1987
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,144 ratings — published 2008
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,388 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 13 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,181 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.13 — 817,447 ratings — published 2010
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,383 ratings — published 2013
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.08 — 212,114 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,461 ratings — published 1997
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,869 ratings — published 2014
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,479 ratings — published 1994
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,260 ratings — published 1999
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,485 ratings — published 2019
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.26 — 220,720 ratings — published 1985
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,459 ratings — published 1985
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,236 ratings — published 1995
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,614 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,446 ratings — published 1859
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.16 — 205,770 ratings — published 2007
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,301 ratings — published 1979
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,066 ratings — published 2011
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,144 ratings — published 2004
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,680 ratings — published 2007
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,791 ratings — published 2012
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,129 ratings — published 1986
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,380 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,126 ratings — published 2015
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,036 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,766 ratings — published 2016
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,295 ratings — published 1999
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,227 ratings — published 2015
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,317 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,933 ratings — published 2011
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,108 ratings — published 2012
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,933 ratings — published 2006
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,243 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,717 ratings — published 2018
Science Fictions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,600 ratings — published 2020
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,797 ratings — published 2018
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,490 ratings — published 2006
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,907 ratings — published 2011
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,544 ratings — published 2014
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,516 ratings — published 2015
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,515 ratings — published 2002
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-general)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,113 ratings — published 1995
