Scientific Readings for Everyone
4. 
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,424 ratings 
7. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,096 ratings 
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by:
Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 9. 
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by:
Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating — 1,094 ratings 11. 
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,479 ratings 12. 
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by:
Carl Sagan
4.34 avg rating — 38,705 ratings 13. 
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by:
Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating — 21,191 ratings 
15. 
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by:
Lisa Kaltenegger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,255 ratings 16. 
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
by:
Michio Kaku
4.15 avg rating — 23,942 ratings 17. 
Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves
by:
Sonja Yoerg
3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings 
21. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,465 ratings 
23. 
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 — 4,033 ratings 24. 
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by:
Carl Sagan
4.30 avg rating — 17,621 ratings 
26. 
Are You Dreaming?: Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide
by:
Daniel Love
4.25 avg rating — 411 ratings 
28. 
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating — 21,375 ratings 
33. 
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by:
Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings 
35. 
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
3.91 avg rating — 11,145 ratings 36. 
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. 
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
by:
Lauren Slater
3.90 avg rating — 3,654 ratings 38. 
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 
38. 
America's First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever
by:
Steve Ruskin
3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings 38. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
38. 
Stephen Hawking On Trial: Confronting the Big Bang
by:
Pierre St. Clair
3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings 38. 
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 38. 
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by:
Riley Black
3.93 avg rating — 3,704 ratings 38. 
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.93 avg rating — 647 ratings 38. 
Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
by:
Simon Clark
4.29 avg rating — 590 ratings 38. 
Beyond the Edge of the Universe: A Steady Path of Mindfulness and Letting Go
by:
Indu L. Shakya
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 38. 
The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
51. 
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
by:
Manjit Kumar
4.27 avg rating — 10,349 ratings 
51. 
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by:
Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating — 204 ratings 
57. 
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.14 avg rating — 9,252 ratings 57. 
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by:
Riley Black
4.02 avg rating — 530 ratings 57. 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,814 ratings 57. 
62. 
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.05 avg rating — 27,035 ratings 62. 
62. 
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating — 7,789 ratings 62. 
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
by:
Yossi Yovel
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings 
66. 
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 — 55,259 ratings 66. 
70. 
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
by:
Maryn McKenna
4.20 avg rating — 883 ratings 
72. 
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
by:
Martin J. Rees
3.96 avg rating — 5,245 ratings 
75. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings 75. 
This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
by:
John Brockman
3.66 avg rating — 2,818 ratings 
78. 
GRAMMATICAL MAN: Information, Entropy,Language and Life
by:
Jeremy Campbell
4.19 avg rating — 261 ratings 78. 
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by:
Charles King
4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings 
80. 
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe 4.29 avg rating — 7,030 ratings
80. 
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
by:
Edwin Black
4.22 avg rating — 990 ratings 80. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,333 ratings 
86. 
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
by:
Marilyn Johnson
3.64 avg rating — 2,115 ratings 86. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,034 ratings 
88. 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by:
Dava Sobel
3.75 avg rating — 30,048 ratings 91. 
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Alex Prud’homme
3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings 
93. 
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by:
Daniel Goleman
4.05 avg rating — 131,739 ratings 
93. 
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,662 ratings 96. 
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
by:
Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings 96. 
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
by:
Sean B. Carroll
3.82 avg rating — 1,105 ratings 
100. 
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery
by:
Kathryn Phillips
4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings