Most Engaging Scientific Nonfiction
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Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings 
189. 
The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology
by:
M.D. Kammari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 205. 
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by:
David Quammen
4.01 avg rating — 2,225 ratings 
205. 
The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
by:
Jessica Wapner
4.29 avg rating — 1,063 ratings 205. 
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
by:
Robert Ardrey
4.02 avg rating — 327 ratings 205. 
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
by:
Peter Singer
4.04 avg rating — 600 ratings 205. 
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Janisse Ray
4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings 205. 
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
by:
Kristin Ohlson
4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 205. 
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
by:
Michael Brooks
3.92 avg rating — 806 ratings 
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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by:
Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings 205. 
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by:
Ben Goldacre
4.10 avg rating — 9,121 ratings 205. 
Ten Years To the Singularity If We Really, Really Try … and other Essays on AGI and its Implications
by:
Ben Goertzel
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings 205. 
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by:
Riley Black
4.02 avg rating — 530 ratings 222. 
The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder
by:
Robert Ardrey
4.07 avg rating — 114 ratings 
222. 
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
by:
Charles Fishman
3.94 avg rating — 1,975 ratings 222. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,300 ratings 222. 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by:
Dava Sobel
3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings 
222. 
A Metaphysics of the Computer: The Reality Machine and a New Science for the Holistic Age 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
222. 
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
by:
Yossi Yovel
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings 
230. 
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving
by:
Carol Deppe
4.47 avg rating — 172 ratings 230. 
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.06 avg rating — 3,141 ratings 230. 
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
by:
Deborah Blum
4.25 avg rating — 926 ratings 
230. 
The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them 3.84 avg rating — 264 ratings
230. 
Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
by:
Rob Dunn
3.94 avg rating — 562 ratings 
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241. 
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by:
Lawrence Lessig
4.11 avg rating — 2,706 ratings 241. 
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
by:
Meredith Hooper
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings 
241. 
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by:
Robert D. Morris
3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings 241. 
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
by:
William deBuys
3.80 avg rating — 442 ratings 241. 
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,258 ratings 241. 
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 241. 
Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective
by:
Shimon Malin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings 
249. 
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.96 avg rating — 9,781 ratings 249. 
The Story of English: Companion to the PBS TV Series
by:
Robert McCrum
4.09 avg rating — 2,388 ratings 
249. 
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
by:
Katrina Blair
4.04 avg rating — 141 ratings 
249. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 
249. 
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.04 avg rating — 45,733 ratings 259. 
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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
by:
Deborah Blum
3.69 avg rating — 1,177 ratings 
259. 
Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
by:
Todd Tucker
4.17 avg rating — 149 ratings 
267. 
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
by:
Emily Anthes
3.73 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 267. 
ASAP Science: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena
by:
Mitchell Moffit
3.93 avg rating — 1,914 ratings 
270. 
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
by:
Amir D. Aczel
3.34 avg rating — 497 ratings 270. 
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death 3.93 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
277. 
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / The Natural History of Religion
by:
David Hume
4.04 avg rating — 1,081 ratings 277. 
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by:
Barry Estabrook
3.96 avg rating — 4,507 ratings 277. 
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
by:
Chris Anderson
3.82 avg rating — 29,932 ratings 277. 
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The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer
by:
J.P. Moreland
3.79 avg rating — 66 ratings 277. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings 277. 
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction Series)
by:
John McQuaid
3.54 avg rating — 461 ratings 
277. 
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by:
Janna Levin
3.98 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 288. 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.02 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 288. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,296 ratings 
288. 
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
by:
William deBuys
4.27 avg rating — 265 ratings 288. 
Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
by:
Steven Gimbel
4.21 avg rating — 694 ratings 
288. 
The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat: And Other Science Mysteries Solved By Sherlock Holmes
by:
Colin Bruce
3.35 avg rating — 95 ratings 288. 
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by:
Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating — 17,217 ratings 
296. 
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks 3.51 avg rating — 636 ratings