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.

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
The Loneliest Polar Bear
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    The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)
    The Overstory
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The Other Einstein
    Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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    Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
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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. ThompsonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCoraline by Neil Gaiman
    Trippy Books
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    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
    365 books — 645 voters
    Blindsight by Peter WattsHyperion by Dan SimmonsShip of Fools by Richard Paul RussoLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyHull Zero Three by Greg Bear
    Space horror
    278 books — 235 voters

    Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
    Histories of the Everyday
    347 books — 309 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
    Most Engaging Scientific Nonfiction
    317 books — 321 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    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
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Gene: An Intimate History

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