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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    The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change
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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
    Dune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovHyperion by Dan SimmonsRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
    Space Opera
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    Try it!
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    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
    245 books — 308 voters
    Watchmen by Alan MooreSoon I Will Be Invincible by Austin GrossmanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonBatman by Frank MillerHero by Perry Moore
    Superhero Fiction
    636 books — 1,060 voters

    Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghThe Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
    Best Books About Mathematics
    312 books — 468 voters
    Rock Star by Su WilliamsDream of Me by Jennifer FroelichPeter, Enchantment and Stardust by William  O'BrienDare 2 Dream by Ashley S. ClancyThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
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    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

    Simon Winchester
    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
    His Favorite Books About the Sea: Grab a thick blanket and a hot toddy to read this journalist's favorite bedtime books about the sea, the briny subject of his new work of nonfiction, Atlantic.
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    Terry Pratchett
    “ Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

    Stephen Hawking
    “ We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ”
    ― Stephen Hawking

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