Best Science Non-Fiction
1. 
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small #1-2)
by:
James Herriot
4.35 avg rating — 155,375 ratings 2. 
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
by:
Bruce Greyson
4.18 avg rating — 4,794 ratings 2. 
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
by:
Ben Rawlence
4.24 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 4. 
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by:
Stacey O'Brien
4.10 avg rating — 12,466 ratings 
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by:
Juli Berwald
3.71 avg rating — 3,255 ratings 8. 
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by:
Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,827 ratings 9. 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings 10. 
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
by:
Temple Grandin
4.15 avg rating — 9,826 ratings 
13. 
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
by:
Sue Halpern
3.81 avg rating — 334 ratings 14. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,596 ratings 15. 
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.92 avg rating — 24,363 ratings 
17. 
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by:
Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating — 210,932 ratings 
19. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,840 ratings 20. 
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,424 ratings 
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,883 ratings
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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
25. 
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by:
Penny Le Couteur
3.98 avg rating — 7,043 ratings 
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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science 4.22 avg rating — 851 ratings
36. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 
38. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 
41. 
The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works
by:
Roger Highfield
4.02 avg rating — 3,062 ratings 
43. 
The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora
by:
Michael Largo
3.73 avg rating — 471 ratings 44. 
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World
by:
James Kakalios
3.76 avg rating — 770 ratings 
46. 
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.13 avg rating — 20,582 ratings 47. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
by:
Sy Montgomery
3.94 avg rating — 57,059 ratings 48. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,788 ratings 49. 
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,231 ratings 
52. 
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World
by:
Richard Conniff
3.98 avg rating — 203 ratings 53. 
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life
by:
Susan Middleton
4.51 avg rating — 186 ratings 
55. 
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by:
Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,634 ratings 56. 
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
by:
Matt Simon
4.13 avg rating — 1,217 ratings 
58. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,905 ratings 
60. 
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by:
Temple Grandin
4.10 avg rating — 16,787 ratings 61. 
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
by:
Sy Montgomery
4.07 avg rating — 3,934 ratings 
63. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,339 ratings 64. 
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
by:
Amy Stewart
3.82 avg rating — 10,913 ratings 
67. 
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 — 55,257 ratings 
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.17 avg rating — 9,808 ratings 
73. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,026 ratings 74. 
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,562 ratings 
76. 
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,185 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
by:
David Owen
3.93 avg rating — 3,218 ratings 
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,607 ratings 87. 
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
by:
Lauren Redniss
4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings 88. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,556 ratings 89. 
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by:
Atul Gawande
4.28 avg rating — 51,632 ratings 90. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,428 ratings 
92. 
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
by:
Dawn Raffel
3.58 avg rating — 1,586 ratings 93. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings 94. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,613 ratings 
96. 
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by:
Samin Nosrat
4.40 avg rating — 87,462 ratings 
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process 4.10 avg rating — 10,017 ratings
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The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs
by:
Nicholas Dodman
4.05 avg rating — 804 ratings