Best General Science Books
5. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,087 ratings 
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,234 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,420 ratings 9. 
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,479 ratings 10. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,876 ratings 
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,421 ratings 14. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,646 ratings 
17. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings 
20. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings 
23. 
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating — 21,375 ratings 
26. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 
28. 
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 
30. 
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,229 ratings 31. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,145 ratings 32. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 33. 
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.15 avg rating — 23,340 ratings 
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 37. 
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 38. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,336 ratings 39. 
40. 
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by:
Carl Sagan
4.05 avg rating — 10,817 ratings 
43. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,102 ratings 
46. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,594 ratings 
49. 
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,501 ratings 50. 
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by:
Carl Sagan
4.30 avg rating — 17,621 ratings 51. 
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by:
Carl Sagan
4.34 avg rating — 38,704 ratings 52. 
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 — 55,256 ratings 53. 
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by:
Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating — 39,550 ratings 
56. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,339 ratings 
59. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,126 ratings 60. 
Theory of People: Master Behaviors, Business, Economics, Emotions and Mind in One Simple Way (Understanding the World Book 1)
by:
Jakub Lasak
4.22 avg rating — 215 ratings 61. 
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches 4.13 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
61. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings 
66. 
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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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
by:
Leon M. Lederman
4.15 avg rating — 4,110 ratings 
73. 
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
by:
Lynn Margulis
4.22 avg rating — 888 ratings 
77. 
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by:
Lisa Kaltenegger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,255 ratings 78. 
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 10,630 ratings 
80. 
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
by:
Juliet Eilperin
3.90 avg rating — 896 ratings 81. 
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 
85. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 86. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,840 ratings 87. 
Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 
90. 
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,562 ratings 
94. 
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,040 ratings 95. 
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by:
Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating — 21,190 ratings 96. 
98. 
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
by:
Philip Plait
4.04 avg rating — 5,232 ratings 
100. 
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by:
Michael J. Behe
3.79 avg rating — 4,017 ratings