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.

This Is Your Mind on Plants
Fox & I
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
The Icepick Surgeon
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Maya and the Robot
It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence
The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
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    The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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  • Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin
    Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

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    1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World

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    Transcendent Kingdom
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    Migrations
    This Is Your Mind on Plants
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    The Overstory
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Host by Stephenie MeyerCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica Roth
    Best Sci-Fi/Futuristic Romance
    1,316 books — 1,387 voters

    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
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    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    480 books — 418 voters

    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsDune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
    best hard science fiction
    373 books — 664 voters
    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
    814 books — 802 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Cosmos
    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
    The Grand Design

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