Science Published in Year: 2019
3. 
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
by:
Frans de Waal
4.21 avg rating — 5,466 ratings 4. 
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
by:
Emily Nagoski
3.93 avg rating — 62,207 ratings 5. 
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
by:
Richard Preston
4.42 avg rating — 7,444 ratings 6. 
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by:
Matt Richtel
4.07 avg rating — 5,808 ratings 7. 
Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
by:
Bryan Sykes
3.48 avg rating — 311 ratings 8. 
Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies
by:
Aysha Akhtar
4.31 avg rating — 258 ratings 9. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,328 ratings 10. 
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by:
Thomas Hager
4.18 avg rating — 5,017 ratings 11. 
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals 3.97 avg rating — 544 ratings
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
by:
Randall Munroe
4.17 avg rating — 22,185 ratings 15. 
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by:
Cal Newport
4.06 avg rating — 91,781 ratings 16. 
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
by:
Jamie Metzl
3.98 avg rating — 3,710 ratings 17. 
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
by:
Judith Grisel
4.14 avg rating — 5,164 ratings 18. 
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
by:
Bren Smith
4.39 avg rating — 1,872 ratings 19. 
Healing Earth: An Ecologist's Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship
by:
John Todd
4.42 avg rating — 66 ratings 
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir 4.38 avg rating — 4,345 ratings
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The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
by:
Jen Gunter
4.35 avg rating — 9,139 ratings 25. 
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have 3.76 avg rating — 1,908 ratings
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
by:
Azra Raza
4.07 avg rating — 1,285 ratings 27. 
Wildhood: The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescents 4.12 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
by:
Dahr Jamail
4.19 avg rating — 918 ratings 28. 
Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
by:
Alice Robb
3.55 avg rating — 1,371 ratings 
31. 
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe 4.29 avg rating — 7,028 ratings
32. 
The Wonder Down Under: A User's Guide to the Vagina
by:
Nina Brochmann
4.19 avg rating — 5,128 ratings 
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A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
by:
Kartik Hosanagar
3.86 avg rating — 442 ratings 
37. 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329,314 ratings 38. 
Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
by:
Dan Albert
3.80 avg rating — 120 ratings 
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
by:
James Donovan
4.36 avg rating — 1,675 ratings 40. 
Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity
by:
Ashley Lemke
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
43. 
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.14 avg rating — 3,086 ratings 
45. 
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
by:
Beth Gardiner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 223 ratings 46. 
Scientifica Historica: How the world's great science books chart the history of knowledge
by:
Brian Clegg
4.11 avg rating — 93 ratings 47. 
Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
by:
Lisa Sanders
4.01 avg rating — 4,115 ratings 
52. 
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
54. 
Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa 4.48 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by:
Bill McKibben
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,091 ratings 58. 
The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science
by:
Shaili Jain
4.01 avg rating — 366 ratings 
59. 
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
by:
Sarah E. Hill
4.04 avg rating — 11,277 ratings 59. 
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
by:
David Robson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,207 ratings 59. 
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
by:
Sean Carroll
4.08 avg rating — 5,880 ratings 59. 
The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize
by:
Geir Lundestad
3.23 avg rating — 43 ratings 59. 
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
by:
Lewis Dartnell
4.17 avg rating — 3,947 ratings 59. 
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
66. 
Breaking And Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
by:
Jeremy N. Smith
3.79 avg rating — 1,344 ratings 66. 
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by:
Katherine Eban
4.42 avg rating — 7,196 ratings 66. 
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by:
Will Hunt
3.80 avg rating — 2,620 ratings 69. 
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,625 ratings
69. 
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter 3.97 avg rating — 123 ratings
71. 
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
by:
Linda Geddes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,537 ratings 72. 
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The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
by:
Ziya Tong
4.19 avg rating — 1,269 ratings 76. 
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
by:
Bill Streever
3.73 avg rating — 339 ratings 
78. 
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by:
Anne Harrington
4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings 80. 
Moonshot: What Landing a Man on the Moon Teaches Us About Collaboration, Creativity, and the Mind-set for Success
by:
Richard Wiseman
3.87 avg rating — 397 ratings 81. 
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
by:
Amanda Little
4.12 avg rating — 1,799 ratings 81. 
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The Magic Feather Effect: The Science of Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief
by:
Melanie Warner
3.75 avg rating — 232 ratings 84. 
Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments
by:
J.L. Pickering
4.49 avg rating — 59 ratings 85. 
The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods
by:
Hannah Witton
4.24 avg rating — 741 ratings 
85. 
Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
by:
David Barrie
3.81 avg rating — 839 ratings 85. 
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb 3.66 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
by:
Philipp Blom
3.57 avg rating — 1,187 ratings 91. 
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.17 avg rating — 3,248 ratings 92. 
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.13 avg rating — 46,332 ratings 93. 
Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science
by:
Robert E. Kohler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
95. 
Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
by:
Jennifer Block
4.15 avg rating — 840 ratings 
95. 
Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions
by:
Nancy Atkinson
4.29 avg rating — 82 ratings 98. 
Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
by:
James Poskett
3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings 98. 
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind 4.08 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings