Radiolab Suggested Readings

1.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 786,980 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,783 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,697 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,658 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,193 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,828 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,288 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons 4.39 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry 3.95 avg rating — 155,549 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers 4.17 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 4.27 avg rating — 20,281 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal 3.93 avg rating — 50,605 ratings
14.
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4.12 avg rating — 22,823 ratings
15.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,674 ratings
16.
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales 4.15 avg rating — 23,339 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating — 101,029 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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 — 54,816 ratings
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Uncle Tungsten
Uncle Tungsten 3.99 avg rating — 6,919 ratings
20.
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 141,691 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,864 ratings
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,507 ratings
23.
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures 3.85 avg rating — 103,992 ratings
24.
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries 4.10 avg rating — 31,874 ratings
25.
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet 3.87 avg rating — 7,143 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus 3.72 avg rating — 11,392 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software 3.95 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
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Hallucinations
Hallucinations 3.93 avg rating — 24,810 ratings
29.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Proust Was a Neuroscientist 3.85 avg rating — 9,016 ratings
30.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 641,260 ratings
31.
Awakenings
Awakenings 4.09 avg rating — 13,803 ratings
32.
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures 4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium 4.30 avg rating — 17,621 ratings
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How We Decide
How We Decide 3.84 avg rating — 41,296 ratings
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals 4.23 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives 3.95 avg rating — 24,067 ratings
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter 3.49 avg rating — 5,079 ratings
38.
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines 3.71 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness 3.94 avg rating — 10,990 ratings
40.
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering 4.38 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science 3.97 avg rating — 9,815 ratings
42.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less 3.83 avg rating — 36,348 ratings
43.
The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math 3.86 avg rating — 393 ratings
44.
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament 4.20 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
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Ear and Brain: How we Make Sense of Sounds
Ear and Brain: How we Make Sense of Sounds really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive 3.94 avg rating — 4,652 ratings
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness 3.66 avg rating — 575 ratings
48.
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 3.90 avg rating — 5,690 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 4.13 avg rating — 40,007 ratings
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia 3.91 avg rating — 724 ratings
51.
Imagine: How Creativity Works
Imagine: How Creativity Works 3.97 avg rating — 51,924 ratings
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know 3.63 avg rating — 17,642 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds 3.82 avg rating — 24,615 ratings
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math 4.11 avg rating — 5,583 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages 3.91 avg rating — 7,176 ratings
56.
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story 3.85 avg rating — 5,406 ratings
57.
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction 3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
58.
We Learn Nothing
We Learn Nothing 4.16 avg rating — 5,108 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,793 ratings
60.
The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals
The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals 3.63 avg rating — 161 ratings
61.
The Island of the Colorblind
The Island of the Colorblind 3.88 avg rating — 5,101 ratings
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language 4.10 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
63.
Stress, The Aging Brain, And The Mechanisms Of Neuron Death
Stress, The Aging Brain, And The Mechanisms Of Neuron Death 4.02 avg rating — 50 ratings
63.
The Invention of Air
The Invention of Air 3.82 avg rating — 3,247 ratings
65.
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life 4.03 avg rating — 7,589 ratings
66.
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History 3.97 avg rating — 7,042 ratings
67.
NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go
NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go 3.20 avg rating — 522 ratings
67.
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by: Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,630 ratings
69.
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age 3.79 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
70.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition 3.80 avg rating — 8,727 ratings
70.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life 4.07 avg rating — 16,862 ratings
70.
On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas
On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas 3.69 avg rating — 178 ratings
70.
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other 3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain 4.09 avg rating — 33,994 ratings
76.
Why Evolution Is True
Why Evolution Is True 4.19 avg rating — 25,749 ratings
76.
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton 3.79 avg rating — 9,429 ratings
78.
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition 4.14 avg rating — 111 ratings
79.
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order 4.07 avg rating — 3,260 ratings
80.
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul 3.77 avg rating — 923 ratings
81.
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health 3.54 avg rating — 654 ratings
82.
Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide 2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
83.
The Red Notebook: True Stories
The Red Notebook: True Stories 3.78 avg rating — 5,671 ratings
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Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling
Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology 3.91 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
86.
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed 3.86 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
87.
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers 4.01 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life 4.07 avg rating — 2,967 ratings
89.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? 4.04 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
89.
Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth
Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth 3.81 avg rating — 80 ratings
89.
The Sorrow's Garden
The Sorrow's Garden 4.24 avg rating — 66 ratings
89.
Objectivity
Objectivity 4.31 avg rating — 403 ratings
89.
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce 4.06 avg rating — 658 ratings
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The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers 3.83 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Lying Awake
Lying Awake 3.84 avg rating — 3,159 ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 4.14 avg rating — 9,091 ratings
98.
Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World's Oldest Trees
Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World's Oldest Trees 4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach 4.13 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence 4.05 avg rating — 947 ratings
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