Polymath's Library
1. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,080 ratings 
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,302 ratings 
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
by:
Nancy Forbes
4.27 avg rating β 1,764 ratings 
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating β 69,687 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,033 ratings 17. 
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by:
Fareed Zakaria
4.02 avg rating β 3,454 ratings 
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,885 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,876 ratings 23. 
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by:
Albert Einstein
4.20 avg rating β 22,703 ratings 24. 
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Bayes' Theorem Examples: A Visual Introduction For Beginners
by:
Dan Morris
3.90 avg rating β 813 ratings 26. 
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by:
Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating β 1,094 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
by:
Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating β 54,826 ratings 31. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,871 ratings 
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
by:
Sean Carroll
4.05 avg rating β 4,398 ratings 
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by:
Atul Gawande
4.04 avg rating β 73,758 ratings 36. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating β 38,332 ratings 
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating β 40,010 ratings 
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating β 191,228 ratings 
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating β 78,420 ratings 45. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,256 ratings 45. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating β 614,736 ratings 47. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β 102,339 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating β 28,489 ratings 49. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating β 41,145 ratings 
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating β 29,271 ratings 
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating β 99,688 ratings 57. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating β 25,079 ratings 58. 
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by:
Sebastian Junger
4.12 avg rating β 117,728 ratings 
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
by:
Theodore Gray
4.43 avg rating β 5,371 ratings 61. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating β 21,503 ratings 61. 
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
by:
Martin J. Rees
3.96 avg rating β 5,245 ratings 
64. 
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating β 101,040 ratings 65. 
Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb 3.92 avg rating β 2,095 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by:
Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating β 2,896 ratings 
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
by:
Andrew Robinson
3.98 avg rating β 228 ratings 72. 
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.87 avg rating β 2,401 ratings 72. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,025 ratings 
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
by:
Edward Struzik
4.03 avg rating β 65 ratings 
80. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating β 97,584 ratings 84. 
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by:
John Gribbin
3.98 avg rating β 1,462 ratings 
84. 
Green Wizardry: Conservation, Solar Power, Organic Gardening, And Other Hands-On Skills From the Appropriate Tech Toolkit 4.08 avg rating β 178 ratings
84. 
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating β 92,737 ratings
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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
by:
David Owen
3.72 avg rating β 1,560 ratings 88. 
How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
by:
Kathleen Meyer
3.66 avg rating β 1,039 ratings 88. 
Patina: 300+ Coloration Effects for Jewelers & Metalsmiths
by:
Matthew Runfola
4.39 avg rating β 66 ratings 
88. 
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating β 110,371 ratings 93. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating β 27,646 ratings 
93. 
Creative Lettering and Beyond: Inspiring tips, techniques, and ideas for hand lettering your way to beautiful works of art 3.92 avg rating β 782 ratings
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