Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky
The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science
The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
Science Comics: Plagues: The Microscopic Battlefield
Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame

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    The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating
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    Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen
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  • Modern Romance
    The Essex Serpent
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Chemistry
    From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
    Awkward (Awkward, #1)
    Lab Girl
    Grit
    The Last Days of Night
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
    Best Cognitive Science Books
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonCoraline by Neil GaimanHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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    Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancySphere by Michael CrichtonDaemon by Daniel Suarez
    Best Technothrillers Ever
    554 books — 989 voters
    Divergent by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Host by Stephenie MeyerDelirium by Lauren Oliver
    Best Books About Nanotechnology
    171 books — 729 voters

    The Orphan Trilogy by James MorcanThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanGENIUS INTELLIGENCE by James MorcanAngels & Demons by Dan BrownThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
    Underground Knowledge
    990 books — 240 voters
    Hyperion by Dan SimmonsDune by Frank HerbertEnder's Game by Orson Scott CardFoundation by Isaac AsimovCassastar by Alex J. Cavanaugh
    Best Space Opera
    437 books — 980 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Grand Design
    The God Delusion
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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    Albert Einstein
    “ Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. ”
    ― Albert Einstein

    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “ For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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