Science Published in Year: 2025
1. 
Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
by:
Niayesh Afshordi
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings 2. 
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
by:
Neil Shubin
4.20 avg rating — 274 ratings 3. 
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
by:
Peter Brannen
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 4. 
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by:
Riley Black
4.02 avg rating — 529 ratings 5. 
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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19
by:
Edna Bonhomme
2.94 avg rating — 238 ratings 7. 
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
by:
Pria Anand
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 142 ratings 9. 
Elephants in the Hourglass: A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya
by:
Kim Frank
4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings 10. 
Sea Wonders: The Octopus, the Cuttlefish, and the Squid
by:
Marco Colombo
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 
12. 
Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
by:
Adam Ratner
4.33 avg rating — 334 ratings 13. 
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
by:
Mark Synnott
3.89 avg rating — 382 ratings 
16. 
Top Ten Ideas of Physics: Foundations for Understanding the Universe
by:
A. Zee
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 17. 
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by:
John Green
4.43 avg rating — 83,718 ratings 18. 
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell—and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose
by:
Jonas Olofsson
3.71 avg rating — 133 ratings 19. 
111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss
by:
Mark McCaughrean
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
21. 
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
by:
Alix Morris
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings 22. 
The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
by:
Tim Birkhead
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 23. 
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
by:
Dagomar deGroot
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 24. 
Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
by:
Stephen S. Hall
4.20 avg rating — 134 ratings 25. 
Living Matter: Seeking New Physics in the Biological World
by:
Alexander Levine
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 25. 
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't: A Plant Catalog of a Botanist & Scofflaw
by:
Joey Santore
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 25. 
25. 
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck 3.80 avg rating — 449 ratings
29. 
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
by:
Vanessa Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 29. 
Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics
by:
Vlatko Vedral
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
32. 
Cloud Warriors: Deadly Storms, Climate Chaos―and the Pioneers Creating a Revolution in Weather Forecasting
by:
Thomas E. Weber
4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings 34. 
The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the Symbols
by:
Raul Rojas
3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings 34. 
A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory
by:
Jagadish Shukla
4.28 avg rating — 137 ratings 34. 
This Rare Earth: Building the Dams, Mines and Megaprojects that Run our World it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
40. 
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe
by:
Violet Moller
3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings 41. 
Science and Sensibility: From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below
by:
David Howe
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
42. 
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
by:
Frank Close
4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings 44. 
Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
by:
Ed Regis
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 
47. 
The Universe in Your Pocket: Ten Cosmic Maps That Explain Everything
by:
Lucie Green
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 48. 
48. 
The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science
by:
Peter Dear
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 50. 
Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet
by:
Govert Schilling
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings 51. 
Forty Ways to Know a Star: Using Stars to Understand Astronomy
by:
Jillian Scudder
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 
53. 
Painting the Cosmos: How Art and Science Intersect to Reveal the Secrets of the Universe
by:
Nia Imara
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings 53. 
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story
by:
J.P. Mallory
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 55. 
The Moon: From Imagination to Exploration
by:
D.K. Publishing
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
57. 
Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
by:
Tom Lathan
4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings 
59. 
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
by:
Philip Marsden
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 60. 
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
by:
Helen Gordon
4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings 
63. 
Crystals, Rocks, and Gemstones: Exploring Earth's Treasures
by:
Kelsey Oseid
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 
65. 
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
by:
Thor Hanson
4.14 avg rating — 195 ratings 65. 
Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky
by:
Joanne Baker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
67. 
Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
by:
Sandra Matz
4.10 avg rating — 236 ratings 69. 
Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
by:
Ambika Kamath
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 69. 
The Trouble with Ancient DNA: Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
by:
Anna Källén
4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings 71. 
The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise
by:
Benoît Gallot
4.19 avg rating — 382 ratings 71. 
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
by:
Charles Piller
3.97 avg rating — 408 ratings 73. 
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 59 ratings 
75. 
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
by:
Carly Anne York
4.24 avg rating — 104 ratings 76. 
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
by:
Alex Hutchinson
3.97 avg rating — 393 ratings 76. 
White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus-in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World
by:
Jack Lohmann
4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings 
79. 
Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded: Technical Innovations and Their Lasting Impact
by:
Vaclav Smil
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 80. 
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
by:
Lydia Kang
3.67 avg rating — 206 ratings 80. 
Age of Doubt: Building Trust in a World of Misinformation
by:
Tracey Kirkland
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 82. 
Onscreen Chemistry: The Portrayal of Chemical Science in Film and TV
by:
John O'Donoghue
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
84. 
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
by:
Keach Hagey
3.98 avg rating — 348 ratings 85. 
The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground 3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings
85. 
Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings
87. 
Incredible Bear Attacks: Terrifying Tales of Savage Encounters between Bears and People.
by:
Lamar Underwood
2.81 avg rating — 21 ratings 88. 
Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the Americas' Legendary Cat
by:
James Campbell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 88. 
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by:
Stephen Witt
4.42 avg rating — 673 ratings 
90. 
A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How To Get It
by:
Mike Berners-Lee
4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings 92. 
Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
by:
Jaap de Roode
4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings 93. 
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
by:
Johan Norberg
4.46 avg rating — 110 ratings 
95. 
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by:
Alan Weisman
4.17 avg rating — 81 ratings 96. 
97. 
The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts are Wrecking Science 3.42 avg rating — 53 ratings
99. 
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
by:
Tim Berners-Lee
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 100. 
How Not to Die (Too Soon): The Lies We’ve been Sold and the Policies that can Save Us
by:
Devi Sridhar
4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings