Radiolab Bookshelf
1. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,812 ratings 
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons 4.39 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
by:
Dean Buonomano
3.80 avg rating — 2,873 ratings 
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by:
Brian Greene
4.11 avg rating — 20,663 ratings 11. 
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human 4.15 avg rating — 10,815 ratings
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers 4.01 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
14. 
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
by:
Christof Koch
4.13 avg rating — 575 ratings 
15. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,864 ratings 17. 
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 3.92 avg rating — 138,905 ratings
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Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love—and Even Enjoy—Opera's Most Demanding Genius
by:
William Berger
4.16 avg rating — 189 ratings 22. 
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
by:
Edward Dolnick
3.95 avg rating — 5,930 ratings 22. 
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by:
Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating — 15,702 ratings 
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
by:
Fred Plotkin
3.92 avg rating — 431 ratings 26. 
Classical Music Unbuttoned: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music
by:
Fred Plotkin
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 27. 
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,035 ratings 28. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating — 40,011 ratings 
30. 
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
by:
Lisa Randall
3.93 avg rating — 5,389 ratings 
32. 
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
by:
Michio Kaku
4.21 avg rating — 22,366 ratings 
34. 
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
by:
António Damásio
4.01 avg rating — 4,035 ratings 35. 
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.97 avg rating — 3,225 ratings 36. 
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.96 avg rating — 2,221 ratings 
39. 
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
by:
Jaak Panksepp
4.40 avg rating — 453 ratings 40. 
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 
42. 
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by:
Steven Johnson
3.90 avg rating — 5,690 ratings 
44. 
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by:
Steven Johnson
3.95 avg rating — 3,539 ratings 45. 
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by:
Francis Crick
3.77 avg rating — 923 ratings 46. 
48. 
The Placebo Effect: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
by:
Anne Harrington
3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings 49. 
Narrative, Pain, and Suffering (PROGRESS IN PAIN RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT, V. 34)
by:
John D. Loeser
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
51. 
Forever Today: A True Story of Lost Memory and Never-Ending Love
by:
Deborah Wearing
3.90 avg rating — 433 ratings 52. 
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
by:
Andrei Codrescu
3.95 avg rating — 859 ratings 
54. 
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by:
Joseph E. LeDoux
4.07 avg rating — 2,967 ratings 
57. 
Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
by:
Michael Chorost
3.67 avg rating — 264 ratings 
61. 
Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth
by:
Matthew Cobb
3.81 avg rating — 80 ratings 62. 
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
by:
Tim Birkhead
4.14 avg rating — 111 ratings 
65. 
The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
by:
Jan Zalasiewicz
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
67. 
The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons
by:
Gary Greenberg
3.51 avg rating — 41 ratings 
69. 
The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math 3.86 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals
by:
Charles Siebert
3.63 avg rating — 161 ratings 
74. 
The Man with the Phantom Twin: Adventures in Neuroscience of the Human Brain 4.02 avg rating — 108 ratings
76. 
Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World's Oldest Trees
by:
Ronald M. Lanner
4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings 77. 
A Garden Of Bristlecones: Tales Of Change In The Great Basin
by:
Michael P. Cohen
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 78. 
A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism
by:
Alston Chase
3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings 
80. 
A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind 3.39 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling
by:
Garrett Soden
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings 84. 
Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System
by:
Diane Galusha
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings 85. 
A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
by:
Robert V. Levine
3.76 avg rating — 1,193 ratings