Best Popular Science Books
The best science books make the complexity of the universe feel accessible — even thrilling. These are the top-rated popular science titles, ranked by readers who came away with their minds genuinely expanded.
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Yuval Noah Harari
(110,000 reviews)One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. How did our species succeed in the battle for domin…
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Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
(90,000 reviews)A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans …
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Matthew Walker
(55,000 reviews)'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans 'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
(33,000 reviews)Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysici…
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Yuval Noah Harari
(32,000 reviews)From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary follow-up that explores the future of the human spe…
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Stephen Hawking
(27,000 reviews)Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just three of the questions considered i…
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Jared Diamond
(19,000 reviews)Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, rather than the reverse? Jared Diamond argues that the gaps in pow…
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Robert M. Sapolsky
(14,000 reviews)Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as ful…
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Carl Sagan
(13,000 reviews)Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s classic bestseller that “dives into the past, present, and future of science, dealing with the mind-staggering enormity of …
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
(12,000 reviews)The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s…
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Lawrence M. Krauss
(7,500 reviews)Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where…
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Steven Pinker
(5,000 reviews)Steven Pinker's brilliant, witty, and provocative book explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it…
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Guy Deutscher
(3,500 reviews)"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does…
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The 50 Craziest Conspiracies
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(235 reviews)Some conspiracy theories are ridiculous. Others turned out to be true. This book covers 50 of the most mind-bending ones and takes you through the evidence, the…
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Skriuwer.com
(93 reviews)This book retells 20 major Greek myths in clear, modern prose while staying faithful to the ancient sources. It presents the stories of gods, heroes, and mortal…
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