20162017 tbr
1. 
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
by:
Michael Greger
4.42 avg rating — 48,703 ratings 
4. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings 5. 
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles
by:
Keith Black
4.07 avg rating — 764 ratings 6. 
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
by:
Craig Nelson
4.13 avg rating — 2,862 ratings 
11. 
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating — 31,323 ratings 12. 
Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 326 ratings
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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
by:
Mark Wolynn
3.55 avg rating — 34,986 ratings 15. 
Science & the Near-death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death
by:
Chris Carter
4.15 avg rating — 187 ratings 16. 
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
by:
Yongey Mingyur
4.26 avg rating — 8,230 ratings 17. 
What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better
by:
Dan Baker
4.14 avg rating — 1,446 ratings 18. 
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
4.14 avg rating — 11,317 ratings 20. 
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by:
Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating — 39,550 ratings 
22. 
Handbook of Model Rocketry, 7th Edition (NAR Official Handbook)
by:
G. Harry Stine
4.36 avg rating — 163 ratings 
25. 
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
by:
Carl Zimmer
3.97 avg rating — 650 ratings 26. 
Hand-Me-Down Blues: How To Stop Depression From Spreading In Families
by:
Michael D. Yapko
3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings 
30. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,369 ratings 31. 
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
by:
Peter A. Levine
4.34 avg rating — 3,182 ratings 32. 
Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
by:
Steve Volk
3.83 avg rating — 877 ratings 33. 
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
by:
Derald Wing Sue
4.19 avg rating — 253 ratings 
36. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,829 ratings 37. 
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating — 30,329 ratings
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Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
by:
Alain de Botton
3.66 avg rating — 11,719 ratings 39. 
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
by:
T.M. Luhrmann
3.94 avg rating — 954 ratings 
41. 
The "God" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God
by:
Matthew Alper
3.76 avg rating — 996 ratings 42. 
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
by:
Matthew Vines
4.02 avg rating — 4,063 ratings 43. 
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want 3.90 avg rating — 10,278 ratings
44. 
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
by:
Dalai Lama XIV
4.15 avg rating — 9,239 ratings 45. 
The Cathedral of the World: A Universalist Theology
by:
Forrest Church
3.96 avg rating — 116 ratings 46. 
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
by:
Brené Brown
4.25 avg rating — 87,282 ratings 47. 
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
by:
Thich Nhat Hanh
4.31 avg rating — 45,715 ratings 48. 
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
by:
Barbara Oakley
4.20 avg rating — 21,353 ratings 49. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
by:
Sy Montgomery
3.94 avg rating — 57,049 ratings 50. 
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
by:
Giulia Enders
4.08 avg rating — 53,724 ratings 51. 
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.10 avg rating — 1,846 ratings 52. 
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families 4.16 avg rating — 27,320 ratings
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Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation
by:
Thomas Keating
4.31 avg rating — 449 ratings 55. 
57. 
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
by:
Peter Enns
4.22 avg rating — 5,798 ratings 58. 
The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
by:
Jack Kornfield
4.34 avg rating — 7,834 ratings 
60. 
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last
by:
John M. Gottman
4.14 avg rating — 3,186 ratings 
62. 
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships (The Dr. Sue Johnson Collection, 2)
by:
Sue Johnson
4.10 avg rating — 2,619 ratings 63. 
66. 
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
by:
Jennifer Senior
3.89 avg rating — 12,499 ratings 
68. 
The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
by:
Matthieu Ricard
4.16 avg rating — 1,871 ratings 69. 
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love
by:
Ilia Delio
4.28 avg rating — 289 ratings 70. 
Answering the Contemplative Call: First Steps on the Mystical Path
by:
Carl McColman
4.38 avg rating — 112 ratings 
72. 
Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs 3.90 avg rating — 120 ratings
74. 
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
3.93 avg rating — 19,886 ratings 
76. 
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by:
Sam Harris
3.90 avg rating — 24,024 ratings 77. 
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by:
Dan Barker
3.97 avg rating — 7,253 ratings 
80. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 81. 
82. 
The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain
by:
Judith Horstman
3.92 avg rating — 112 ratings 83. 
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
4.11 avg rating — 1,250 ratings 84. 
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by:
John J. Ratey
4.13 avg rating — 17,031 ratings 85. 
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by:
Carl Sagan
4.34 avg rating — 38,703 ratings 
89. 
When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist
by:
Chet Raymo
4.11 avg rating — 235 ratings 90. 
America's Four Gods: What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us
by:
Paul Froese
3.73 avg rating — 201 ratings 
92. 
The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics 3.83 avg rating — 418 ratings
93. 
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by:
Michio Kaku
4.08 avg rating — 15,339 ratings 94. 
How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist 3.95 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
by:
John Horgan
3.77 avg rating — 504 ratings 96. 
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
by:
Jon Kabat-Zinn
4.13 avg rating — 52,372 ratings 
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What's Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject--and Why It's Important for America
by:
Jo Boaler
4.29 avg rating — 1,158 ratings