History of Science
100. 
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics 3.57 avg rating — 111 ratings
100. 
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by:
Eric R. Kandel
4.14 avg rating — 5,263 ratings 103. 
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
by:
John Emsley
3.80 avg rating — 537 ratings 
103. 
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by:
David Bodanis
4.10 avg rating — 8,264 ratings 106. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,556 ratings 107. 
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 108. 
A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
by:
Joe Jackson
3.86 avg rating — 96 ratings 
110. 
The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution
by:
John Gribbin
3.82 avg rating — 163 ratings 
112. 
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 112. 
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by:
Kai Bird
4.31 avg rating — 55,179 ratings 114. 
Conciatore: The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri
by:
Paul Engle
4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 
116. 
Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe 3.63 avg rating — 101 ratings
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119. 
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
by:
Richard Hamblyn
3.67 avg rating — 246 ratings 
119. 
Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science
by:
John Langone
4.18 avg rating — 148 ratings 122. 
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage 3.85 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
123. 
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity 4.13 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
126. 
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, And Pyrotechnics: The History Of The Explosive That Changed The World
by:
Jack Kelly
3.96 avg rating — 388 ratings 127. 
Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist 3.96 avg rating — 755 ratings
128. 
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by:
Mario Livio
3.80 avg rating — 6,219 ratings 128. 
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
by:
J.L. Heilbron
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 64 ratings 130. 
Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the Beagle
by:
Peter Nichols
3.97 avg rating — 473 ratings 131. 
131. 
From Poison Arrows to Prozac: How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
by:
Stanley Feldman
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings 133. 
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
by:
Lisa Jardine
3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings 133. 
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
by:
John Gribbin
4.11 avg rating — 1,225 ratings 
138. 
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw 3.68 avg rating — 761 ratings
139. 
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution 3.50 avg rating — 155 ratings
140. 
Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
by:
Jack Repcheck
3.84 avg rating — 284 ratings 
140. 
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
by:
Paul Colinvaux
4.19 avg rating — 267 ratings 140. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 144. 
144. 
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 — 7,614 ratings 
146. 
146. 
The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
by:
Robert O. Becker
4.24 avg rating — 795 ratings 151. 
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
by:
Jeremy Bernstein
3.82 avg rating — 307 ratings 
151. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,122 ratings 154. 
The Politics of Evolution, Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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156. 
The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
by:
Robert Whitaker
3.63 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 156. 
160. 
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
by:
Gina Kolata
3.83 avg rating — 996 ratings 161. 
163. 
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet 3.87 avg rating — 7,143 ratings
165. 
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating — 21,371 ratings 166. 
Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds
by:
Brian Burrell
3.44 avg rating — 71 ratings 167. 
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
by:
Hillary Johnson
4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings 168. 
Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
by:
Hal Hellman
3.58 avg rating — 274 ratings 168. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,339 ratings
170. 
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by:
John Derbyshire
4.15 avg rating — 3,733 ratings 
172. 
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
by:
Robert Jungk
4.29 avg rating — 626 ratings 
174. 
The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age 3.32 avg rating — 115 ratings
175. 
The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
by:
Dan Falk
3.70 avg rating — 128 ratings 176. 
177. 
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by:
Carl Sagan
4.05 avg rating — 10,816 ratings 179. 
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
by:
Fritjof Capra
4.11 avg rating — 1,479 ratings 180. 
The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
by:
David Quammen
4.16 avg rating — 1,164 ratings 181. 
Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace
by:
Ira Teller
4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings 
181. 
Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine
by:
Barbara Griggs
4.25 avg rating — 154 ratings 181. 
181. 
Illuminating Disease: An Introduction to Green Fluorescent Proteins
by:
Marc Zimmer
4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings 181. 
Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way
by:
Leila Belkora
3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings 181. 
An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
by:
Gabrielle Walker
4.16 avg rating — 569 ratings 
181. 
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
by:
Marcelo Gleiser
3.94 avg rating — 899 ratings 
181. 
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
by:
Wendy Moore
4.07 avg rating — 4,149 ratings 181. 
The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
by:
Christopher Kemp
4.11 avg rating — 136 ratings 
181. 
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
by:
Paul Shankman
4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings 181. 
Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
by:
Stuart Jamieson
4.29 avg rating — 77 ratings 181. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,930 ratings 181. 
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by:
Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating — 2,895 ratings 