Best General Science Books
101. 
Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible
by:
Gerald Schroeder
4.09 avg rating β 577 ratings 
106. 
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character 4.19 avg rating β 30,241 ratings
110. 
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by:
Mark Miodownik
4.11 avg rating β 20,497 ratings 
113. 
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.01 avg rating β 11,432 ratings 
117. 
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating β 24,070 ratings 
120. 
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
by:
Simon Singh
4.11 avg rating β 4,557 ratings 
124. 
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
by:
Walter Lewin
4.25 avg rating β 4,033 ratings 
126. 
Dreams of a Final Theory : Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by:
Steven Weinberg
4.07 avg rating β 3,439 ratings 
127. 
Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 12 ratings
127. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating β 76 ratings 127. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating β 1,785 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by:
Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating β 1,094 ratings 133. 
Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins 3.10 avg rating β 84 ratings
134. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating β 28,488 ratings 
135. 
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
by:
Peter D. Ward
4.10 avg rating β 1,059 ratings 137. 
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
by:
Lewis Thomas
4.04 avg rating β 707 ratings 138. 
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by:
John Derbyshire
4.15 avg rating β 3,734 ratings 139. 
143. 
Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It
by:
Loren Eiseley
4.02 avg rating β 106 ratings 143. 
SchrΓΆdinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries
by:
John Gribbin
4.07 avg rating β 1,611 ratings 143. 
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics (Science Masters Series)
by:
Ian Stewart
3.76 avg rating β 1,068 ratings 147. 
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
by:
Helen Fisher
3.88 avg rating β 1,926 ratings 
150. 
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 β 7,614 ratings 
151. 
Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by:
Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating β 34,097 ratings 153. 
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating β 4,224 ratings 
156. 
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by:
Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating β 9,816 ratings 157. 
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
by:
David Deutsch
4.14 avg rating β 5,776 ratings 158. 
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating β 6,948 ratings 158. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating β 21,503 ratings 
164. 
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by:
George Gamow
4.21 avg rating β 3,723 ratings 
165. 
The Geckoβs Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
by:
Peter Forbes
3.84 avg rating β 220 ratings 167. 
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating β 8,788 ratings 168. 
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕs and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman
4.05 avg rating β 9,905 ratings 
169. 
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by:
Graham Farmelo
4.01 avg rating β 7,384 ratings 
173. 
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by:
Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating β 10,885 ratings 173. 
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
by:
Jonathan Wells
4.05 avg rating β 738 ratings 173. 
The Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance: A Comprehensive Collection of Time-Tested Principles of Wealth Management 3.97 avg rating β 113 ratings
176. 
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
by:
Anders Halverson
4.22 avg rating β 438 ratings 176. 
Theory and Applications of Instantaneous Intensity Analysis: Advanced Analysis Method for Engineering Acoustics
by:
Takaaki Musha
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 178. 
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time 4.11 avg rating β 1,505 ratings
179. 
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by:
Mario Livio
3.80 avg rating β 6,219 ratings 
180. 
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by:
Ryan North
4.14 avg rating β 6,053 ratings 182. 
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
by:
Stephen C. Meyer
4.32 avg rating β 1,757 ratings 183. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating β 59,463 ratings 183. 
Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
by:
Stephen C. Meyer
4.18 avg rating β 1,488 ratings 
186. 
The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science 4.12 avg rating β 1,673 ratings
186. 
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief 3.87 avg rating β 13,402 ratings
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191. 
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 4.50 avg rating β 33,111 ratings
192. 
Wildhood: The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescents 4.12 avg rating β 497 ratings
194. 
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by:
Nick Lane
4.12 avg rating β 5,281 ratings 196. 
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
by:
Wendy Williams
3.80 avg rating β 1,886 ratings 196. 
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
by:
Abraham Pais
4.34 avg rating β 1,895 ratings 
200. 
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.05 avg rating β 27,034 ratings