Science Published in Year: 2021
1. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,733 ratings 2. 
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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Carl Zimmer
3.94 avg rating — 2,213 ratings 
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You 3.87 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 4.11 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
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Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
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Paul Sen
4.26 avg rating — 912 ratings 8. 
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by:
John Green
4.36 avg rating — 161,006 ratings 9. 
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
by:
Philipp Dettmer
4.59 avg rating — 12,170 ratings 10. 
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Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals
by:
Ginny Smith
3.96 avg rating — 261 ratings 12. 
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
by:
Olivia Campbell
3.71 avg rating — 5,521 ratings 
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by:
Adam M. Grant
4.13 avg rating — 135,976 ratings 18. 
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
by:
Lisa Genova
4.18 avg rating — 15,115 ratings 19. 
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
by:
Mark Humphries
3.91 avg rating — 225 ratings 19. 
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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
by:
Cal Flyn
4.20 avg rating — 5,632 ratings 25. 
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
by:
John Tresch
3.72 avg rating — 406 ratings 27. 
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
by:
Michael E. Mann
3.94 avg rating — 2,202 ratings 28. 
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
by:
Mark Solms
4.25 avg rating — 1,013 ratings 29. 
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
by:
Paul Halpern
3.95 avg rating — 143 ratings 30. 
CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
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Henry T. Greely
3.63 avg rating — 218 ratings 
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.78 avg rating — 7,116 ratings 
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
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Avi Loeb
3.78 avg rating — 5,316 ratings 36. 
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
by:
Lizzie Johnson
4.33 avg rating — 2,605 ratings 36. 
T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
by:
Carole Hooven
4.02 avg rating — 1,671 ratings 38. 
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
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Abigail Tucker
3.81 avg rating — 1,168 ratings 39. 
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms
by:
Doug Bierend
3.86 avg rating — 526 ratings 
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Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
by:
Grace Lindsay
4.37 avg rating — 626 ratings 41. 
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection
by:
Marissa King
3.72 avg rating — 890 ratings 43. 
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by:
Lee McIntyre
3.87 avg rating — 958 ratings 44. 
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong – and How to Make Sense of It
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Dean Burnett
3.84 avg rating — 969 ratings 45. 
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
by:
Tom Higham
4.29 avg rating — 877 ratings 46. 
Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
by:
Shankar Vedantam
3.84 avg rating — 1,634 ratings 
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The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
by:
Chiara Marletto
3.68 avg rating — 569 ratings 49. 
Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.94 avg rating — 619 ratings 
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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Peter J. Hotez
3.76 avg rating — 212 ratings 
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization 3.81 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
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Aubrey Clayton
4.25 avg rating — 516 ratings 
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What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research
by:
Sharri Markson
4.19 avg rating — 1,062 ratings 52. 
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
by:
Azeem Azhar
3.99 avg rating — 1,287 ratings 52. 
The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
by:
Jeffrey Orens
3.54 avg rating — 112 ratings 60. 
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
by:
Kate Aronoff
3.95 avg rating — 245 ratings 60. 
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
by:
Michael Blencowe
4.39 avg rating — 360 ratings 60. 
Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof
by:
Beth A. Bechky
3.01 avg rating — 154 ratings 60. 
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
by:
Skylar Tibbits
4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings 60. 
Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
by:
Emmanuel Kreike
3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings 60. 
The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint
by:
Paul Greenberg
3.49 avg rating — 491 ratings 60. 
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
by:
Katy Milkman
3.85 avg rating — 6,947 ratings 
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
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David Rooney
3.59 avg rating — 1,098 ratings 60. 
How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond
by:
John Rhodes
4.01 avg rating — 78 ratings 
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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Andrew H. Knoll
3.94 avg rating — 4,217 ratings 
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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Suzanne Simard
4.21 avg rating — 15,840 ratings 77. 
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
by:
Alan Lightman
3.94 avg rating — 971 ratings 78. 
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
by:
Tom Vanderbilt
3.67 avg rating — 3,820 ratings 79. 
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health
by:
Robert H. Lustig
4.26 avg rating — 6,130 ratings 79. 
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
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Leigh Cowart
4.06 avg rating — 1,331 ratings 83. 
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going 3.88 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
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Leana Wen
4.24 avg rating — 945 ratings 83. 
Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
by:
Kari Nixon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 87. 
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
by:
Stephen Walker
4.57 avg rating — 1,653 ratings 87. 
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by:
Eric Berger
4.47 avg rating — 6,224 ratings 87. 
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
by:
Cynthia Barnett
4.06 avg rating — 544 ratings 
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Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
by:
Katherine Eggert
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 92. 
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
by:
Rob Dunn
3.59 avg rating — 412 ratings 93. 
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
by:
Julian Sancton
4.27 avg rating — 16,930 ratings 
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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
by:
Sarah Everts
3.82 avg rating — 1,168 ratings 
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Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response
by:
Andy Slavitt
4.14 avg rating — 1,168 ratings 97. 
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by:
Carl L. Hart
4.02 avg rating — 4,582 ratings 97. 
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by:
Kevin Roose
3.95 avg rating — 2,194 ratings 100. 
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know about Science, History and the Mind
by:
A.C. Grayling
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 328 ratings