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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.21 — 485,111 ratings — published 1988
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.13 — 815,011 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.06 — 243,676 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 — 32,933 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 4.10 — 103,005 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 — 40,997 ratings — published 2004
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.33 — 244,886 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 — 220,055 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 — 26,882 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 — 179,857 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 — 148,864 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.31 — 101,760 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 — 284,712 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 — 32,903 ratings — published 2017
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,194 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 — 56,802 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.49 — 221,650 ratings — published 2014
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,117 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.41 — 826,129 ratings — published 2016
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,994 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 — 37,685 ratings — published 2010
Dark Times (Emily the Strange, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,353 ratings — published 2010
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,131 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,940 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 — 903,376 ratings — published 2005
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,633 ratings — published 2007
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,430 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 — 17,091 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 — 211,210 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 — 568,807 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 — 42,059 ratings — published 1986
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,024 ratings — published 2005
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,242 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 — 21,032 ratings — published 2011
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,374 ratings — published 2006
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,567 ratings — published 1983
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,879 ratings — published 1976
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,627 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 — 10,762 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 — 56,975 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 — 122,952 ratings — published 1994
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,193 ratings — published 1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.04 — 463,847 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,027 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 — 249,656 ratings — published 1985
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,513,760 ratings — published 2021
In Stormy Weather (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,636 ratings — published 2026
Heart Racer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 3.78 — 82 ratings — published 2026
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as science-nerd)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,161 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 — 10,627 ratings — published 2021
