History of Science
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,013 ratings 4. 
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,822 ratings 5. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,016 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 — 55,256 ratings 
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,815 ratings 11. 
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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Edward Dolnick
3.95 avg rating — 5,928 ratings 12. 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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Dava Sobel
3.75 avg rating — 30,045 ratings 13. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,198 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings 17. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 18. 
The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography
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Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,487 ratings 19. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,869 ratings 
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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Simon Winchester
3.82 avg rating — 13,926 ratings 
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,864 ratings 25. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,501 ratings 26. 
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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Ross King
3.91 avg rating — 27,847 ratings 
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 29. 
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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John Freely
3.61 avg rating — 302 ratings 
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,268 ratings 
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 38. 
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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 41. 
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
by:
Laura J. Snyder
3.99 avg rating — 545 ratings 42. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,332 ratings 43. 
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
by:
Thomas Hager
4.09 avg rating — 5,802 ratings 44. 
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics 3.83 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by:
Jon Gertner
4.20 avg rating — 8,527 ratings 46. 
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,408 ratings 
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,459 ratings 
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
by:
Jenny Uglow
3.98 avg rating — 814 ratings 52. 
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
by:
Frances Gies
3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings 53. 
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by:
Marilyn Chase
3.83 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 54. 
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
by:
Peter Watson
4.18 avg rating — 1,435 ratings 55. 
The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days 3.84 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
by:
William Dunham
4.22 avg rating — 2,937 ratings 60. 
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
by:
Stephen R. Bown
3.77 avg rating — 1,331 ratings 61. 
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,595 ratings 62. 
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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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 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 — 10,630 ratings 69. 
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by:
Tom Standage
3.95 avg rating — 3,526 ratings 
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Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
by:
Kitty Ferguson
4.10 avg rating — 311 ratings 
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
by:
Amir D. Aczel
3.34 avg rating — 497 ratings 75. 
Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
by:
Dava Sobel
3.66 avg rating — 2,109 ratings 
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
by:
Deborah Cadbury
4.20 avg rating — 2,414 ratings 80. 
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
by:
Benjamin Woolley
3.83 avg rating — 812 ratings 81. 
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (Annotated & Illustrated) (Latin Edition)
by:
Isaac Newton
4.24 avg rating — 4,779 ratings 
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It
by:
Julie M. Fenster
3.68 avg rating — 297 ratings 88. 
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
by:
James Burke
4.21 avg rating — 2,071 ratings 89. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,513 ratings 
90. 
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
by:
Steven Farmer
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 90. 
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by:
Lisa Kaltenegger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 
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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 95. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings 
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
by:
Manjit Kumar
4.27 avg rating — 10,347 ratings 98. 
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.96 avg rating — 9,779 ratings 99. 
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages 3.60 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
by:
Carolyn Merchant
3.82 avg rating — 632 ratings