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.

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Leonardo da Vinci
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Robots & Repeats (Secret Coders, #4)
Science Comics: Dogs: From Predator to Protector
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self

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    New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before: 50 maps of our physical, cultural and political world
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    The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
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  • This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
    Modern Romance
    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Hit Refresh
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    Awkward (Awkward, #1)
    Grit
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
    Lab Girl
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Undiscovered Self by C.G. JungA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerThe Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
    Most Engaging Scientific Nonfiction
    260 books — 223 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
    994 books — 242 voters

    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
    Best Nature Books
    555 books — 464 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
    Best General Science Books
    417 books — 397 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingDivergent by Veronica RothTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    All Sorts Favourites
    753 books — 598 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
    319 books — 472 voters

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    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
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

    Sam Kean
    Sam Kean The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
    His Favorite Science Books for Nonscientists: No need for a lab coat. Enjoy these picks from the science writer behind The Violinist's Thumb, an in-depth look at our genetic code.
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    “ Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ”
    ― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

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    “ Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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