Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness 3.47 avg rating — 704 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,851 ratings
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by: Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,472 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 4.08 avg rating — 199,999 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 4.14 avg rating — 191,225 ratings
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,066 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,226 ratings
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Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating — 155,630 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,065 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time 4.26 avg rating — 42,073 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery 3.89 avg rating — 694 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
The Demon in the Freezer 4.15 avg rating — 17,727 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
All the Living and the Dead 4.25 avg rating — 11,727 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World 3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 87,070 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life 4.03 avg rating — 4,895 ratings
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Gratitude
Gratitude 4.18 avg rating — 23,488 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,354 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating — 59,464 ratings
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The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,925 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,825 ratings
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Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It 4.03 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 3.85 avg rating — 59,580 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,525 ratings
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The End of Stress As We Know It
The End of Stress As We Know It 3.82 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way 3.91 avg rating — 43,561 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World 4.21 avg rating — 38,329 ratings
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 4.13 avg rating — 549,157 ratings
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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog 3.91 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic 4.19 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,586 ratings
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Passionate Minds
Passionate Minds 4.10 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare
Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Restore your Dreamland : 17 stories on the mysteries, wonders and science of sleep
Restore your Dreamland : 17 stories on the mysteries, wonders and science of sleep 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by: Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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241 Real-World Brain Teasers.: Guided problem-solving in Inventions, Nature, Uncommon Trivia, and Business Innovation.
241 Real-World Brain Teasers.: Guided problem-solving in Inventions, Nature, Uncommon Trivia, and Business Innovation. 4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,114 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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Covidians & Covidology
Covidians & Covidology 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ 3.71 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,029 ratings
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Covidians & Covidology: Facts, common sense and science you can understand
Covidians & Covidology: Facts, common sense and science you can understand 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease 4.13 avg rating — 240 ratings
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death 3.73 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer 4.10 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Bad Science
Bad Science 4.06 avg rating — 44,419 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by: Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Next
Next 3.54 avg rating — 76,359 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings
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How Dogs Work
How Dogs Work 3.77 avg rating — 159 ratings
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21) 4.18 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World 3.93 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives
Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives 4.02 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor
The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor 4.30 avg rating — 256 ratings
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance 4.02 avg rating — 530 ratings
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
This Is Your Brain on Music 3.89 avg rating — 66,736 ratings
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Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language 4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
by: Bill Nye
4.14 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
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The Sociopath Next Door
The Sociopath Next Door 3.77 avg rating — 38,196 ratings
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
by: Bill Nye
4.14 avg rating — 13,631 ratings
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 4.25 avg rating — 41,367 ratings
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right 4.04 avg rating — 73,758 ratings
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The Medical Science of House, M.D.: The Facts Behind the Addictive Medical Drama
The Medical Science of House, M.D.: The Facts Behind the Addictive Medical Drama 3.25 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry 3.95 avg rating — 155,563 ratings
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Hallucinations
Hallucinations 3.93 avg rating — 24,812 ratings
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Born on a Blue Day
Born on a Blue Day 3.84 avg rating — 23,817 ratings
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime 3.96 avg rating — 1,937 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science 4.28 avg rating — 51,630 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human 4.15 avg rating — 10,815 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 4.27 avg rating — 20,283 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,274 ratings
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It 4.35 avg rating — 198,004 ratings
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English 3.83 avg rating — 7,108 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 4.20 avg rating — 31,749 ratings
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On Intelligence
On Intelligence 4.11 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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Emerging Viruses
Emerging Viruses 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure 4.18 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture 4.06 avg rating — 4,224 ratings