Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
101. 
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.01 avg rating — 11,432 ratings 102. 
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 10,629 ratings 
104. 
105. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,185 ratings 
109. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 110. 
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by:
Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating — 39,549 ratings 111. 
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
by:
Philip Plait
4.04 avg rating — 5,232 ratings 112. 
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by:
Robert Wright
4.08 avg rating — 11,843 ratings 113. 
Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by:
Gary Zukav
4.01 avg rating — 10,890 ratings 114. 
115. 
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time 4.26 avg rating — 9,291 ratings
116. 
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
by:
Lee Smolin
4.04 avg rating — 10,551 ratings 117. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings 118. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,556 ratings 
121. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings 122. 
124. 
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by:
Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,816 ratings 125. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,328 ratings 
128. 
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating — 31,320 ratings 
130. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,684 ratings
132. 
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by:
George Gamow
4.21 avg rating — 3,723 ratings 133. 
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.05 avg rating — 27,033 ratings 134. 
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by:
Carl Sagan
4.30 avg rating — 17,621 ratings 135. 
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
by:
James Burke
4.21 avg rating — 2,071 ratings 135. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings 137. 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,785 ratings 
139. 
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating — 21,373 ratings 140. 
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
by:
Martin J. Rees
3.96 avg rating — 5,245 ratings 141. 
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by:
David Bodanis
4.10 avg rating — 8,264 ratings 
143. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,865 ratings 144. 
Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
by:
Andrew Shtulman
3.86 avg rating — 454 ratings 
146. 
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 
149. 
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by:
Michael Shermer
3.86 avg rating — 9,953 ratings 
152. 
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 4.27 avg rating — 20,283 ratings
153. 
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
by:
Manjit Kumar
4.27 avg rating — 10,349 ratings 154. 
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by:
Steven Weinberg
4.07 avg rating — 3,439 ratings 
156. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 
158. 
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
by:
Thomas Hager
4.09 avg rating — 5,802 ratings 159. 
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
by:
Stephen Hawking
4.18 avg rating — 18,161 ratings 
161. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,393 ratings 162. 
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,500 ratings 163. 
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.98 avg rating — 7,922 ratings 
164. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 
168. 
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
3.91 avg rating — 11,146 ratings 169. 
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by:
Ben Goldacre
4.10 avg rating — 9,120 ratings 
172. 
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by:
Natalie Angier
3.67 avg rating — 3,202 ratings 
174. 
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 — 7,614 ratings 
175. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by:
Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,019 ratings 177. 
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by:
Leonard Susskind
4.13 avg rating — 11,355 ratings 177. 
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
179. 
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics (Science Masters Series)
by:
Ian Stewart
3.76 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
182. 
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
by:
Graham Farmelo
4.01 avg rating — 7,384 ratings 183. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 
185. 
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 186. 
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by:
Carol Tavris
4.04 avg rating — 28,667 ratings 187. 
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by:
Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating — 10,885 ratings 188. 
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.25 avg rating — 3,634 ratings 189. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings 190. 
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by:
Steven Weinberg
4.10 avg rating — 13,115 ratings 191. 
193. 
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by:
Michio Kaku
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,924 ratings 194. 
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
by:
Michael Shermer
3.93 avg rating — 7,618 ratings 195. 
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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