Books Scientists Should Read Before The Age of 20

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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World 4.23 avg rating — 4,391 ratings
102.
Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid
Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
103.
Greek Mathematical Works, Volume II: Aristarchus to Pappus
Greek Mathematical Works, Volume II: Aristarchus to Pappus 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
104.
On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,247 ratings
105.
The Search for the Perfect Language
The Search for the Perfect Language 3.96 avg rating — 834 ratings
105.
Hippocratic Writings
Hippocratic Writings 3.61 avg rating — 365 ratings
105.
Biophilia
Biophilia 4.28 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
108.
The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans 4.23 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
108.
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
The Player of Games (Culture, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 78,344 ratings
108.
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History 4.18 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
111.
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture 4.21 avg rating — 253 ratings
112.
The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5)
The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5) 4.29 avg rating — 16,527 ratings
112.
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock 4.04 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology 4.18 avg rating — 929 ratings
114.
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology 4.08 avg rating — 11,843 ratings
117.
Quarantine
Quarantine
by: Greg Egan
3.91 avg rating — 6,143 ratings
117.
The Education of Koko
The Education of Koko 4.15 avg rating — 119 ratings
119.
Space Cadet
Space Cadet 3.85 avg rating — 9,288 ratings
120.
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 1,031,625 ratings
121.
Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey House 4.13 avg rating — 63,552 ratings
121.
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
by: Bill Nye
4.14 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
123.
Autobiography
Autobiography 3.76 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
124.
Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room! 3.71 avg rating — 9,424 ratings
125.
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin 4.13 avg rating — 518 ratings
126.
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei (Caldecott Honor Book)
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei (Caldecott Honor Book) 3.97 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
127.
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins 4.08 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
128.
Experimental Researches in Electricity
Experimental Researches in Electricity 4.39 avg rating — 80 ratings
129.
Principles of Geology
Principles of Geology 3.91 avg rating — 355 ratings
130.
My Inventions and Other Writings
My Inventions and Other Writings 3.93 avg rating — 817 ratings
131.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 4.30 avg rating — 6,277 ratings
132.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles 4.16 avg rating — 279,649 ratings
133.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,474 ratings
134.
Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells
Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells 4.18 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
135.
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 3.89 avg rating — 354,083 ratings
136.
The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor E. Challenger
The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor E. Challenger 3.93 avg rating — 71,247 ratings
137.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,463 ratings
138.
The mysteries of nature and art In foure severall parts. The first of water works. The second of fire works. The third of drawing, washing, limming, ... of sundry experiments. By Iohn Bate. (1635)
The mysteries of nature and art In foure severall parts. The first of water works. The second of fire works. The third of drawing, washing, limming, ... of sundry experiments. By Iohn Bate. (1635)
by: John Bate
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
139.
The Art Of Robert Bateman
The Art Of Robert Bateman 4.50 avg rating — 76 ratings
140.
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History 4.18 avg rating — 397 ratings
141.
When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life before Dinosaurs
When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life before Dinosaurs 4.39 avg rating — 84 ratings
142.
Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari
Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari 4.15 avg rating — 136 ratings
143.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,669 ratings
144.
Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic
Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic 3.70 avg rating — 315 ratings
145.
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
After Man: A Zoology of the Future 4.29 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
146.
Dinotopia: The World Beneath
Dinotopia: The World Beneath 4.29 avg rating — 4,233 ratings
147.
The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain 3.87 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
148.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Journals of Lewis and Clark 4.12 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
149.
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes 4.01 avg rating — 291 ratings
150.
The Tree Where Man Was Born
The Tree Where Man Was Born 3.94 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
151.
Shadow Country
Shadow Country 4.07 avg rating — 5,426 ratings
152.
The Snow Leopard
The Snow Leopard 4.07 avg rating — 19,812 ratings
153.
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea 3.86 avg rating — 151 ratings
154.
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness 3.70 avg rating — 517 ratings
155.
Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark
Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark 3.85 avg rating — 323 ratings
156.
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
by: John Muir
4.29 avg rating — 950 ratings
157.
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons 3.91 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
158.
The Falcon
The Falcon 3.75 avg rating — 194 ratings
159.
John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings
John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings 4.32 avg rating — 59 ratings
160.
Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod 4.23 avg rating — 2,209 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
162.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings 3.88 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
163.
Natural History: A Selection
Natural History: A Selection 3.99 avg rating — 582 ratings
164.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,858 ratings
165.
The Harper Hall of Pern (Pern: Harper Hall, #1-3)
The Harper Hall of Pern (Pern: Harper Hall, #1-3) 4.46 avg rating — 6,949 ratings
166.
The Emperor's New Mind
The Emperor's New Mind 3.91 avg rating — 7,530 ratings
167.
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness 3.96 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
168.
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 413,612 ratings
169.
Interstellar Pig (Interstellar Pig, #1)
Interstellar Pig (Interstellar Pig, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
170.
The Tao Is Silent
The Tao Is Silent 4.06 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
171.
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2)
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 5,975 ratings
172.
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 65,237 ratings
173.
True Names... and Other Dangers
True Names... and Other Dangers 3.99 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
174.
A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 44,642 ratings
175.
Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragonlance, #1-3)
Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragonlance, #1-3) 4.25 avg rating — 21,780 ratings
176.
Aristoi
Aristoi 3.99 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
177.
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences 4.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
178.
Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)
Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0) 4.05 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
179.
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon 3.58 avg rating — 1,919 ratings
180.
Chess Gems: 1,000 Combinations You Should Know
Chess Gems: 1,000 Combinations You Should Know 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
181.
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy (Ring of Bright Water, #1-3)
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy (Ring of Bright Water, #1-3) 4.22 avg rating — 477 ratings
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