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
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
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
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
  • The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean
    The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

    Release date: Jul 13, 2021
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  • Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker
    Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

    Release date: Apr 27, 2021
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  • Hype by Nina Shapiro
    Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not
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  • Transcendent Kingdom
    The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    The Overstory
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    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
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
    Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
    Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
    Dark Pattern (The Naturalist, #4)
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
    Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
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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. CoreyDeath Troopers by Joe Schreiber
    Space horror
    278 books — 235 voters
    The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again 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
    659 books — 812 voters

    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBlood River by Tim ButcherFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
    Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
    1,265 books — 1,086 voters
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    458 books — 411 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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