Nerdologia
1. 
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,213 ratings 
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,362 ratings 
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,802 ratings 8. 
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
by:
Dan Ariely
3.93 avg rating — 16,724 ratings 9. 
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by:
Penny Le Couteur
3.97 avg rating — 7,042 ratings 
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life 3.94 avg rating — 5,194 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 17. 
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,789 ratings
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Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth
by:
Fredric Wertham
2.58 avg rating — 170 ratings 
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Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
by:
Chris Cooper
3.85 avg rating — 118 ratings 
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by:
Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,815 ratings 24. 
Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
by:
Murray Carpenter
3.59 avg rating — 1,096 ratings 29. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
by:
António Damásio
4.01 avg rating — 4,035 ratings 30. 
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier 3.92 avg rating — 6,284 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings 36. 
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
by:
Dean Buonomano
3.80 avg rating — 2,873 ratings 36. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,269 ratings 38. 
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
by:
Adrienne Mayor
3.98 avg rating — 756 ratings 38. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,181 ratings 40. 
Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
by:
Shelley R. Adler
3.92 avg rating — 138 ratings 40. 
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better : Library Edition
by:
Clive Thompson
3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings 40. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,899 ratings 
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
by:
Michael Pollan
4.27 avg rating — 82,444 ratings 
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by:
Mark Miodownik
4.11 avg rating — 20,495 ratings 45. 
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by:
Paul Hawken
4.40 avg rating — 4,279 ratings 
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Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy
by:
Hal Harvey
4.31 avg rating — 103 ratings 51. 
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
by:
David McRaney
3.95 avg rating — 4,678 ratings 
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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
by:
Christian Rudder
3.73 avg rating — 12,378 ratings 
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World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
by:
Robert P. Crease
3.48 avg rating — 145 ratings 56. 
The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery
by:
Bob Brier
3.99 avg rating — 373 ratings 57. 
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
by:
Brian Switek
3.94 avg rating — 1,616 ratings 58. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings 
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating — 24,068 ratings 61. 
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
by:
Eric Siegel
3.66 avg rating — 2,105 ratings 
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
by:
Joan Roughgarden
4.06 avg rating — 898 ratings 63. 
Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine
by:
E. Paul Zehr
3.88 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological & Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
by:
Adrienne Mayor
3.86 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 66. 
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes
by:
Sharon Moalem
3.94 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,585 ratings