The Natural World: Natural Science and Natural History for Adults
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,073 ratings 
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,331 ratings 
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 8. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Sy Montgomery
3.94 avg rating — 57,051 ratings 9. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,100 ratings 10. 
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
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Joy Adamson
4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings 
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,254 ratings 
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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John M. Marzluff
3.95 avg rating — 2,003 ratings 21. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,784 ratings 22. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,419 ratings 
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
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Claire Nouvian
4.32 avg rating — 1,233 ratings 
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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Carl Safina
4.25 avg rating — 917 ratings 32. 
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
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Danielle Clode
4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings 34. 
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,145 ratings 38. 
Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
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David R. Samson
4.16 avg rating — 111 ratings 39. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,902 ratings 40. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings 41. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings 42. 
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
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Nate Blakeslee
4.39 avg rating — 12,275 ratings 
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
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Colin Tudge
3.95 avg rating — 2,033 ratings 45. 
Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,340 ratings 49. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,395 ratings 50. 
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,040 ratings 
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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Thomas Halliday
4.11 avg rating — 6,159 ratings 
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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Will Hunt
3.80 avg rating — 2,620 ratings 57. 
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating — 1,094 ratings 
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Mark Kurlansky
3.92 avg rating — 24,362 ratings 63. 
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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Sebastian Junger
4.12 avg rating — 117,727 ratings 
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,646 ratings 66. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,024 ratings 
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence
4.24 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 
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Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves
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Sonja Yoerg
3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings 
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In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians
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Robin Moore
4.64 avg rating — 125 ratings 
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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Amy Stewart
4.02 avg rating — 10,453 ratings 76. 
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
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E.C. Pielou
4.17 avg rating — 240 ratings 
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
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Jill Jonnes
3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings 80. 
The Living Forest: A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods
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Robert Llewellyn
4.53 avg rating — 135 ratings 
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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Robert Whitaker
3.63 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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Nick Pyenson
3.79 avg rating — 3,806 ratings 89. 
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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Patrik Svensson
3.92 avg rating — 21,240 ratings 90. 
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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Lulu Miller
4.14 avg rating — 51,786 ratings 
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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Amy Stewart
3.92 avg rating — 2,704 ratings 
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
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Alan de Queiroz
3.78 avg rating — 324 ratings 99. 
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (Ft Press Science Series)
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David P. Clark
3.73 avg rating — 1,028 ratings 100. 
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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Carl Zimmer
4.08 avg rating — 2,095 ratings