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The most-recommended science & nature titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez · 2019
14 recommenders
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins · 2006
12 recommenders
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition (Modern Library)
Jane Jacobs · 2002
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander · 2010
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance · 2016
11 recommenders
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1989
A Brief History of Time
and The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking · 1998
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake · 2020
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M Carroll · 2016
10 recommenders
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Christopher Ryan · 2010
9 recommenders
How To Lie With Statistics
Darrell Huff · 1982
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD · 2019
8 recommenders
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde · 1984
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong · 2022
Collapse
Jared Diamond · 2005
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben · 2016
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2021
7 recommenders
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli · 2018
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte · 2001
Something Deeply Hidden
Sean Carroll · 2019
6 recommenders
A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram · 2002
Chaos
James Gleick · 1988
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow · 2019
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
Ben Goldacre · 2008
The Vital Question
Nick Lane · 2016
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan · 2002
5 recommenders
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens · 2022
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth · 2020
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Oxford Landmark Science)
Richard Dawkins · 1999
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini · 2019
4 recommenders
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin · 2020
For the Love of Men
Liz Plank · 2019
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
Andrew H Knoll · 2003
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil de Grasse Tyson · 2017
DMT
Rick Strassman · 2000
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Carl Zimmer · 2018
Future Shock
Alvin Toffler · 1971
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
Dennis Overbye · 1991
Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver · 2016
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene · 2010
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
James Fadiman · 2011
The Systems Bible
John Gall · 2003
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2003
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong · 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli · 2016
The Fabric of Reality
David Deutsch · 1998
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts · 2002
Mothers and Others
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy · 2009
What Doesn't Kill Us
Scott Carney · 2017
Devotions
Mary Oliver · 2017
3 recommenders
Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
Roy Baumeister · 1999
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Alice Domuran Dreger · 2005
Innumeracy
John Allen Paulos · 2001
Asimov's New Guide to Science
Isaac Asimov · 1993
Intelligent Life in the Universe
Carl Sagan & Iosif Shklovsky
One Two Three…Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
George Gamow · 1988
Horse Brain, Human Brain: The Neuroscience of Horsemanship
Janet Jones PhD · 2020
Animal Liberation
Peter Singer · 2009
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time and Motion
Sean Carroll · 2022
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Richard P. Feynman · 2006
The No Asshole Rule Building a Civilised Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't. Robert Sutton
Robert I. Sutton · 2007
The Nurture Assumption
Judith Rich Harris · 1999
The Corner
David Simon and Edward Burns · 1998
The End of Gender
Debra Soh · 2020
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby · 1999
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
George Monbiot · 2013
The Female Eunuch
Germaine Greer · 2008
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane · 2009
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
Janna Levin · 2003
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov & M. A. Lavrent’ev · 1999
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
Neil Gershenfeld · 1999
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
Horace Freeland Judson · 1979
Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus
Catherine Green & Sarah Gilbert · 2021
2 recommenders
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson · 2000
The Disordered Mind
Eric R. Kandel · 2018
Eating the Sun
Oliver Morton · 2007
The Well-Tempered Garden
Christopher Lloyd · 1970
Information: The New Language of Science
Hans Christian von Baeyer · 2005
A Flat Place
Noreen Masud · 2023
The Ages of Gaia
James Lovelocke
Gravitation
Charles W. Misner · 1973
Probability, random variables, and stochastic processes
Athanasios Papoulis · 2001
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte · 2018
Male, Female
David C. Geary · 1998
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins · 1995
Light of the Stars
Adam Frank · 2018
A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times
Anand Pandian · 2019
Electricity and Magnetism
Edward M. Purcell · 1984
World of Numbers
Adam Spencer · 2015
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II
Richard P. Feynman · 2015
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit · 2015
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Lilliana Mason · 2018
The Black Hole War
Leonard Susskind · 2008
Your Place in the Universe
Jason Chin · 2020
Dreams of a Final Theory
Steven Weinberg · 1993
Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin · 2006
The Aftermath
Philip Bump · 2023
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Antonio Damasio · 2018
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
Margaret Livingstone · 2002
Better Data Visualizations
Jonathan Schwabish · 2021
