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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.21 — 488,120 ratings — published 1988
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,024 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.06 — 245,554 ratings — published 2003
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,146 ratings — published 2006
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,478 ratings — published 1999
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,249 ratings — published 2004
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.32 — 265,895 ratings — published 2025
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,326 ratings — published 1985
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,069 ratings — published 2019
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.50 — 183,465 ratings — published 2013
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.15 — 150,164 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,941 ratings — published 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,259 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,435 ratings — published 2017
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,002 ratings — published 2018
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.08 — 57,333 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.49 — 223,580 ratings — published 2014
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,150 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.41 — 835,847 ratings — published 2016
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,618 ratings — published 2016
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,891 ratings — published 2010
Dark Times (Emily the Strange, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,356 ratings — published 2010
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.09 — 241,263 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,263 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,347 ratings — published 2005
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,944 ratings — published 2007
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,763 ratings — published 1987
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,128 ratings — published 1995
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,670 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.13 — 571,924 ratings — published 2012
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,205 ratings — published 1986
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.96 — 627,861 ratings — published 2005
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,383 ratings — published 1999
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,099 ratings — published 2011
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,445 ratings — published 2006
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,572 ratings — published 1983
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,943 ratings — published 1976
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,639 ratings — published 2002
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,775 ratings — published 1994
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 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,390 ratings — published 2010
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.16 — 123,973 ratings — published 1994
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,298 ratings — published 1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,091 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,868 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.05 — 251,279 ratings — published 1985
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,678,063 ratings — published 2021
In Stormy Weather (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,413 ratings — published 2026
Heart Racer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.70 — 110 ratings — published 2026
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,282 ratings — published 2021
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,846 ratings — published 2021
