Science Writing
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by:
Stephen Hawking
4.21 avg rating — 467,010 ratings 
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Carl Sagan
4.34 avg rating — 38,702 ratings 6. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,804 ratings 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,037 ratings 10. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,024 ratings 
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,414 ratings 
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,035 ratings 15. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,825 ratings 18. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,255 ratings 
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by:
Lisa Kaltenegger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,815 ratings 
38. 
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by:
Carl Sagan
4.05 avg rating — 10,816 ratings 39. 
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by:
Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating — 1,094 ratings 
41. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings 
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings 45. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings 
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 47. 
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,213 ratings 49. 
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
by:
Michael Kearns
4.11 avg rating — 651 ratings 53. 
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
by:
Sergio Pistoi
4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings 56. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
by:
Sy Montgomery
3.94 avg rating — 57,042 ratings 57. 
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
by:
Michio Kaku
4.15 avg rating — 23,942 ratings 58. 
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
by:
Jim Al-Khalili
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,984 ratings 
58. 
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
by:
Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 11,332 ratings 61. 
Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
by:
Felix Alba-Juez
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 61. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,378 ratings 63. 
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 
66. 
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by:
Dan Koeppel
3.81 avg rating — 5,279 ratings 
68. 
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
by:
Sam Kean
4.25 avg rating — 4,576 ratings 69. 
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
by:
Lisa Jardine
3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings 70. 
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by:
Mark Miodownik
4.10 avg rating — 4,071 ratings 71. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers the Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 72. 
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
by:
Elaine Morgan
4.14 avg rating — 951 ratings 
72. 
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by:
Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings 75. 
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating — 21,372 ratings 
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,874 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by:
Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings 80. 
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
by:
Peter D. Ward
4.10 avg rating — 1,059 ratings 81. 
The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them 3.84 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings 85. 
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by:
Ken Jennings
3.86 avg rating — 8,102 ratings 87. 
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by:
Graham Farmelo
4.01 avg rating — 7,384 ratings 88. 
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
by:
David Beerling
4.05 avg rating — 636 ratings 89. 
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
by:
Wendy Williams
3.80 avg rating — 1,886 ratings 90. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 
92. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,585 ratings 
94. 
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 95. 
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by:
Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating — 17,216 ratings 
97. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 
99. 
RNA Worlds: From Life's Origins to Diversity in Gene Regulation
by:
John F. Atkins
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 99. 
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
by:
Felix Alba-Juez
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings