Wonderful Books of Science and Medicine
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,586 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
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Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,602 ratings 5. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,021 ratings 6. 
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 7. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 8. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,066 ratings 
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 11. 
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
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John McPhee
4.17 avg rating — 2,248 ratings 12. 
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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Brian M. Fagan
3.84 avg rating — 2,720 ratings 13. 
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 — 55,252 ratings 
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,040 ratings 20. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings 21. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,825 ratings 22. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,029 ratings 23. 
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
by:
Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,525 ratings 
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings 26. 
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
by:
Emily R. Transue
3.90 avg rating — 2,347 ratings 
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Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs
by:
Jack Horner
3.94 avg rating — 376 ratings 32. 
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
by:
Robert T. Bakker
4.23 avg rating — 2,232 ratings 33. 
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families 4.16 avg rating — 27,320 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 
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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C.J. Peters
3.98 avg rating — 2,696 ratings 39. 
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis 3.82 avg rating — 807 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
by:
Sergio Pistoi
4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings 42. 
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
by:
Patricia Fara
3.38 avg rating — 202 ratings 
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by:
Thor Hanson
4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings 47. 
Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner
by:
Michael Baden
3.95 avg rating — 1,303 ratings 
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The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting
by:
Berton Roueché
4.17 avg rating — 1,423 ratings 
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
by:
Tom Vanderbilt
3.72 avg rating — 8,118 ratings 
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Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
by:
Colin Evans
3.78 avg rating — 432 ratings 
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by:
Norman F. Cantor
3.41 avg rating — 5,388 ratings 
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
by:
Katrina Firlik
3.79 avg rating — 3,914 ratings 
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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
by:
Felix Alba-Juez
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 65. 
Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit
by:
Michael Ruhlman
4.13 avg rating — 1,460 ratings 
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Neurology: The Amazing Central Nervous System (Super Smart Science Series) 4.36 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Best Home Remedy To Prevent Cold Sores (Lip Blisters) For Life
by:
Beverley Malcolm
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 65. 
Snake Oil is Alive & Well "The Clash between Myths and Reality: Reflections of a Physcian"
by:
Morton E. Tavel
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
by:
A.W. Bates
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 65. 
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide And The Criminal Mind
by:
Roy Hazelwood
4.05 avg rating — 2,869 ratings 65. 
Apple Watch ECG: The Ultimate ECG Interpretation's Guide; How to Analyze Apple Watch ECG like a Professional
by:
Philip Knoll
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 65. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings 
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,474 ratings 
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
by:
Michio Kaku
4.21 avg rating — 22,367 ratings 81. 
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
by:
Felix Alba-Juez
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease 4.12 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It 4.03 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Healing beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind
by:
Larry Dossey
4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
by:
William M. Bass
4.22 avg rating — 14,004 ratings 89. 
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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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
by:
Peter D. Ward
3.94 avg rating — 365 ratings 94. 
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
by:
Jennifer Worth
4.19 avg rating — 77,380 ratings 94. 
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
by:
Bruce Greyson
4.19 avg rating — 4,793 ratings 
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Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
by:
William Rosen
3.67 avg rating — 2,466 ratings