Modern Science Nonfiction
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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 — 54,825 ratings 5. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings 6. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,799 ratings 
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,378 ratings 
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating — 101,035 ratings 15. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,255 ratings 16. 
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,212 ratings 18. 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,764 ratings 19. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,037 ratings 
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,501 ratings 27. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 28. 
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 29. 
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating — 30,330 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by:
Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,632 ratings 31. 
On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by:
Ed Cohen
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 31. 
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by:
Rebecca Renner
3.80 avg rating — 3,059 ratings 33. 
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by:
Lisa Kaltenegger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 34. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,212 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher 4.21 avg rating — 30,068 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,487 ratings 37. 
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,948 ratings 
39. 
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
by:
Kristy Hamilton
4.05 avg rating — 172 ratings 40. 
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.15 avg rating — 8,228 ratings 41. 
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them 4.29 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
by:
Holly Tucker
3.65 avg rating — 2,595 ratings 43. 
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
by:
Juliet Eilperin
3.90 avg rating — 896 ratings 44. 
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist 4.05 avg rating — 6,575 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death 3.93 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,099 ratings 49. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings 51. 
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 52. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings 53. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings 54. 
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
by:
John Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,192 ratings 55. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 55. 
Machine Learning: An Introduction Math Guide for Beginners to Understand Data Science Through the Business Applications
by:
Samuel Hack
4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 57. 
Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love
by:
Kenneth J. Martz
4.06 avg rating — 96 ratings 58. 
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab 3.96 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
60. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 60. 
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
by:
Paul Craddock
3.89 avg rating — 694 ratings 
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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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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
by:
Andrew Shtulman
3.86 avg rating — 454 ratings 68. 
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The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by:
Douglas Starr
3.86 avg rating — 5,269 ratings 71. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 72. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 73. 
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by:
Mark Miodownik
4.11 avg rating — 20,495 ratings 74. 
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by:
Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating — 10,884 ratings 74. 
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 — 4,398 ratings 76. 
Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
by:
H. Gilbert Welch
4.15 avg rating — 1,519 ratings 
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by:
Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings 81. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 
81. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,321 ratings 
87. 
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by:
Simon Winchester
3.82 avg rating — 13,927 ratings 88. 
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by:
Jeff Goodell
4.18 avg rating — 4,916 ratings 
91. 
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by:
Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,463 ratings 92. 
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.13 avg rating — 5,852 ratings 93. 
Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
by:
Roman Russo
4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings 
95. 
Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
by:
John Bradshaw
3.82 avg rating — 2,015 ratings 
97. 
Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World, Portable Documents
by:
Jon Queijo
3.61 avg rating — 557 ratings 97. 
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
by:
Marilyn Johnson
3.64 avg rating — 2,115 ratings 97. 
EXPERIENCES AS EXPERT PSYCHOLOGIST IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by:
Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings