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.

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Figuring
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Planets
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
The Magic Feather Effect: The Science of Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief
The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder
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    Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
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    Give Back the Light: A Doctor's Relentless Struggle to End Blindness
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  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Naturalist
    The Fifth Risk
    Unsheltered
    The Only Woman in the Room
    The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
    Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
    The Other Einstein
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan Cain
    Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
    493 books — 282 voters
    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    Medicine and Literature
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    The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
    Works of Pure Genius
    486 books — 634 voters
    Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
    Best Books About Mathematics
    366 books — 536 voters

    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsFoundation by Isaac AsimovDune by Frank HerbertRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
    best hard science fiction
    310 books — 590 voters
    Martin Heidegger by Rüdiger SafranskiBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerConfessions by Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Age of Insight by Eric R. KandelThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    The Grand Design

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    Kate Ascher The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper
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    “ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ”
    ― Carl Sagan

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