Best Nonfiction Biology books on Goodreads
201. 
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by:
Eric R. Kandel
4.14 avg rating β 5,263 ratings 201. 
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
3.75 avg rating β 9,513 ratings 201. 
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating β 7,100 ratings 
205. 
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by:
Michio Kaku
4.08 avg rating β 15,339 ratings 
207. 
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
by:
Trevor Corson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4,597 ratings 
207. 
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir 4.38 avg rating β 4,345 ratings
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207. 
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
by:
Gary F. Marcus
3.82 avg rating β 2,068 ratings 
213. 
213. 
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
by:
Stefano Mancuso
4.11 avg rating β 2,550 ratings 213. 
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 3.87 avg rating β 3,580 ratings
219. 
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
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Sean B. Carroll
4.06 avg rating β 3,141 ratings 
219. 
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating β 2,065 ratings
219. 
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal WorldβAnd Us
by:
Richard O. Prum
4.06 avg rating β 2,787 ratings 
219. 
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
by:
Caspar Henderson
4.05 avg rating β 1,442 ratings 
225. 
225. 
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
by:
Wade Davis
4.46 avg rating β 2,643 ratings 225. 
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
by:
Richard Fortey
3.87 avg rating β 1,162 ratings 229. 
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by:
Nicholas Wade
3.99 avg rating β 4,643 ratings 229. 
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
by:
Sebastian Seung
3.83 avg rating β 2,095 ratings 229. 
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
by:
Fritjof Capra
4.18 avg rating β 1,910 ratings 229. 
Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human
by:
Jesse Bering
3.72 avg rating β 1,869 ratings 229. 
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
by:
Rebecca Stott
3.75 avg rating β 1,949 ratings 229. 
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America 4.43 avg rating β 1,878 ratings
229. 
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.69 avg rating β 1,822 ratings 229. 
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by:
Juli Berwald
3.71 avg rating β 3,255 ratings 229. 
The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science 4.12 avg rating β 1,673 ratings
229. 
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
by:
Ben Goldfarb
4.28 avg rating β 4,973 ratings 229. 
Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food Taming Our Primal Instincts
by:
Terry Burnham
3.86 avg rating β 1,239 ratings 
243. 
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
by:
Robin Baker
3.91 avg rating β 2,963 ratings 243. 
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
by:
David M. Buss
4.16 avg rating β 3,899 ratings 
243. 
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
by:
Marc Bekoff
4.05 avg rating β 1,849 ratings 243. 
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
by:
Chris Stringer
3.86 avg rating β 1,565 ratings 243. 
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.01 avg rating β 1,478 ratings 
252. 
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
by:
Nathan H. Lents
3.96 avg rating β 4,869 ratings 
252. 
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
by:
Kevin Kelly
4.22 avg rating β 1,700 ratings 
252. 
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260. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,556 ratings 260. 
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating β 11,640 ratings 260. 
260. 
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.20 avg rating β 2,244 ratings 260. 
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by:
David Quammen
4.01 avg rating β 2,225 ratings 260. 
260. 
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
by:
Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating β 618 ratings 260. 
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 4.13 avg rating β 639 ratings
268. 
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating β 7,614 ratings 
268. 
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
by:
Daniel Chamovitz
4.04 avg rating β 3,928 ratings 268. 
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
by:
Frans de Waal
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2,597 ratings 268. 
If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
by:
James Hamblin
3.95 avg rating β 2,885 ratings 268. 
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.98 avg rating β 2,205 ratings 
268. 
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding 4.20 avg rating β 1,302 ratings
268. 
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
by:
Adam Rutherford
3.83 avg rating β 2,681 ratings 268. 
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
by:
Rob Dunn
3.91 avg rating β 1,260 ratings 268. 
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
by:
Charles Darwin
3.99 avg rating β 1,291 ratings 268. 
The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
by:
Larry Young
3.93 avg rating β 1,362 ratings 
281. 
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by:
Dan Koeppel
3.81 avg rating β 5,281 ratings 281. 
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
by:
Robert Lanza
3.94 avg rating β 4,720 ratings 
281. 
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by:
Cordelia Fine
3.79 avg rating β 3,505 ratings 281. 
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
by:
Wendy Williams
3.80 avg rating β 1,886 ratings 281. 
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
by:
Ian Tattersall
4.06 avg rating β 1,316 ratings 281. 
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by:
John Green
4.43 avg rating β 83,985 ratings 288. 
288. 
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by:
Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating β 2,401 ratings 288. 
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
by:
Guy Leschziner
4.03 avg rating β 3,570 ratings 288. 
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
by:
Colin Tudge
3.95 avg rating β 2,033 ratings 
288. 
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
by:
Chip Walter
4.01 avg rating β 1,233 ratings 288. 
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 4.19 avg rating β 6,059 ratings
297. 
Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
by:
Emily Monosson
3.84 avg rating β 94 ratings 
297. 
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness 4.01 avg rating β 4,035 ratings
297. 
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
by:
Peter Tompkins
3.97 avg rating β 3,248 ratings