Best Pop Science Books
1. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating — 885,821 ratings 2. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,037 ratings 
6. 
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,035 ratings 7. 
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,475 ratings 8. 
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,413 ratings 9. 
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by:
Steven D. Levitt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133,657 ratings 10. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating — 614,696 ratings 
12. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,362 ratings 13. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,141 ratings 14. 
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating — 24,068 ratings 
16. 
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by:
Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings 17. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,246 ratings 
19. 
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 — 54,825 ratings 
22. 
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by:
Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating — 21,187 ratings 23. 
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by:
Daniel H. Pink
3.95 avg rating — 123,662 ratings 
25. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,579 ratings 26. 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings 
28. 
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher 4.21 avg rating — 30,068 ratings
29. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,335 ratings 
31. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,269 ratings 32. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings 
34. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings 35. 
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 
37. 
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
by:
Michio Kaku
4.21 avg rating — 22,366 ratings 38. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 39. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,676 ratings
40. 
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
by:
Michio Kaku
4.15 avg rating — 23,942 ratings 41. 
Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
41. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 41. 
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by:
Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating — 1,094 ratings 
45. 
The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
by:
John D. Barrow
3.96 avg rating — 1,212 ratings 45. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings 47. 
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by:
Michael Brooks
3.75 avg rating — 6,124 ratings 47. 
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human 4.15 avg rating — 10,815 ratings
51. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating — 465,720 ratings 53. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 
55. 
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by:
Steven Johnson
3.99 avg rating — 15,387 ratings 55. 
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
by:
James Hansen
4.02 avg rating — 1,229 ratings 55. 
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 
59. 
The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2)
by:
Mickey Royal
3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings 59. 
61. 
Survival of the Prettiest : The Science of Beauty
by:
Nancy L. Etcoff
3.78 avg rating — 1,944 ratings 61. 
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
by:
Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings 63. 
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
by:
Clay Shirky
3.78 avg rating — 7,139 ratings 63. 
Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
by:
Felix Alba-Juez
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 
66. 
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science
by:
John D. Barrow
4.12 avg rating — 82 ratings 
66. 
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
by:
Michael Shermer
3.97 avg rating — 3,510 ratings 69. 
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives 3.74 avg rating — 4,066 ratings
69. 
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by:
Steven Weinberg
4.10 avg rating — 13,115 ratings 71. 
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
by:
Felix Alba-Juez
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 71. 
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
by:
Tali Sharot
3.77 avg rating — 1,952 ratings 73. 
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us 3.91 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
73. 
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Reveals About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating — 42,038 ratings
76. 
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
by:
Murray Gell-Mann
3.84 avg rating — 1,777 ratings 77. 
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time 4.26 avg rating — 9,291 ratings
78. 
Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons
by:
Garth Sundem
3.44 avg rating — 235 ratings 78. 
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
by:
Beth Shapiro
3.93 avg rating — 1,009 ratings 80. 
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.01 avg rating — 11,433 ratings 81. 
The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
by:
Jason Hartley
3.56 avg rating — 405 ratings 81. 
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness 3.62 avg rating — 224 ratings
81. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings 
81. 
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
by:
David J. Morris
4.17 avg rating — 905 ratings 81. 
Ecological Planet: An Introduction to Earth's Major Ecosystems
by:
John C. Kricher
4.16 avg rating — 76 ratings 81. 
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.25 avg rating — 3,634 ratings 
81. 
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
by:
Christie Wilcox
4.11 avg rating — 1,537 ratings 81. 
81. 
Ultimate Memory Magic: The Transformative Program for Sharper Memory, Mental Clarity, and Greater Focus . . . at Any Age!
by:
Jim Karol
3.70 avg rating — 63 ratings 81. 
The Ultimate Memory Manual: Learn How to Remember the Things You Used to Forget (Life Level Up Book 6)
by:
Hunter Hazelton
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 81. 
Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
by:
Alondra Oubré
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings 81. 
The Ultimate Memory Manual: Learn How to Remember the Things You Used to Forget With the Memory Palace Technique
by:
Jon Nelsen
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 81. 
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
81. 
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains
by:
Uta Frith
4.14 avg rating — 444 ratings 81. 
Deep-Level Influencing - A Successful Career: Learning from Serial Killers
by:
Michael Brady
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 81. 
Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
by:
Mike James Ross
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings 81. 
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
by:
Sean Carroll
3.99 avg rating — 1,719 ratings