Science Published in Year: 2018
1. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,276 ratings 2. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings 3. 
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
by:
Andrew Yang
4.26 avg rating — 9,702 ratings 6. 
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.13 avg rating — 5,852 ratings 7. 
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by:
Claire L. Evans
3.93 avg rating — 2,438 ratings 7. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,316 ratings 9. 
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating — 7,098 ratings 10. 
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.23 avg rating — 53,282 ratings 
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating — 434,831 ratings 13. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,354 ratings 14. 
Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
by:
Lisa Mosconi
3.94 avg rating — 2,608 ratings 14. 
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
by:
Abby Norman
3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings 
17. 
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
by:
Johann Hari
4.26 avg rating — 40,169 ratings 17. 
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
by:
Merve Emre
3.26 avg rating — 3,352 ratings 19. 
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy 4.07 avg rating — 3,565 ratings
20. 
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.23 avg rating — 4,390 ratings 21. 
The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
by:
Gary B. Meisner
3.87 avg rating — 225 ratings 22. 
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
by:
Patricia Fara
3.62 avg rating — 205 ratings 22. 
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of the Cultural Mind
by:
António Damásio
3.75 avg rating — 2,379 ratings 24. 
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
by:
Michio Kaku
4.18 avg rating — 11,876 ratings 25. 
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by:
Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating — 41,569 ratings 
29. 
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
by:
Lucy Jones
4.13 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 30. 
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by:
Kai-Fu Lee
4.09 avg rating — 16,260 ratings 31. 
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by:
Robert Kurson
4.53 avg rating — 11,262 ratings 31. 
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
4.13 avg rating — 2,141 ratings 31. 
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything 3.93 avg rating — 1,866 ratings
31. 
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
by:
Kathryn Harkup
3.91 avg rating — 609 ratings 31. 
Wits Guts Grit: All-Natural Biohacks for Raising Smart, Resilient Kids
by:
Jena Pincott
3.60 avg rating — 57 ratings 31. 
How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)
by:
Ryan North
4.14 avg rating — 6,051 ratings 37. 
The Wonder Down Under: A User's Guide to the Vagina
by:
Nina Brochmann
4.19 avg rating — 5,128 ratings 37. 
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
by:
Peter Tompkins
3.97 avg rating — 3,248 ratings 37. 
Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America 3.84 avg rating — 98 ratings
37. 
When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by:
Jim Holt
4.04 avg rating — 2,503 ratings 
42. 
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by:
Robin DiAngelo
4.16 avg rating — 170,204 ratings 42. 
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
by:
Alex Hutchinson
4.12 avg rating — 18,411 ratings 42. 
Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World
by:
Les Johnson
3.74 avg rating — 114 ratings 
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Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World
by:
Ama Marston
3.51 avg rating — 97 ratings 47. 
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
by:
Carlos Magdalena
4.03 avg rating — 1,383 ratings 49. 
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
by:
Roseann Lake
3.81 avg rating — 676 ratings 49. 
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
by:
Nick Pyenson
3.79 avg rating — 3,805 ratings 51. 
The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone (The Introvert’s Edge Series) 3.91 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
53. 
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
by:
Steven Johnson
3.56 avg rating — 1,986 ratings 54. 
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by:
Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating — 2,400 ratings 55. 
The Secret Language of Cats: How to Understand Your Cat for a Better, Happier Relationship
by:
Susanne Schötz
3.09 avg rating — 584 ratings