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books recommended by scientists

What working physicists, biologists, and researchers actually read — Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sabine Hossenfelder, Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, and dozens more. Drawn from interviews, podcasts, and academic citations.

Aggregated across 17 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.

most recommended books on this list

2 people
Altered Traits
Daniel Goleman · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Richard Dawkins · 2013
2 recommenders
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2 people
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil de Grasse Tyson · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Finding Ultra
Rich Roll · 2013
2 recommenders
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2 people
Holy Bible
- · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair · 2019
2 recommenders
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2 people
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair PhD · 2019
2 recommenders
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2 people
Outlive
Peter Attia · 2023
2 recommenders
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2 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
2 recommenders
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2 people
Surely you are joking Mr Feynman
Richard Feynman · 1994
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M Carroll · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Circadian Code
Satchin Panda · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell · 1972
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Longevity Diet
Valter Longo · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker · 2017
2 recommenders
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1 person
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
James Mustich · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
10% Happier
Dan Harris · 2014
1 recommender
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1 person
A Dictionary Of Real Numbers
Jonathan Borwein · 1990
1 recommender
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1 person
A Guide to the Good Life
Sahil Bloom · 2009
1 recommender
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1 person
A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
Matthieu Ricard · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
A Prayer for World Peace
(2015 · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Age of Reason: The Definitive Edition
Thomas Paine · 2007
1 recommender
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1 person
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
All Systems Red
Martha Wells · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Steven Druker · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013
1 recommender
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1 person
An Atlas of Atherosclerosis Progression and Regression
Herbert C. Stary · 2003
1 recommender
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1 person
An Introduction to Transfer Entropy
Terry Bossomaier, Lionel Barnett, Michael Harré, Joseph T. Lizier · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
Peter Singer · 2023
1 recommender
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1 person
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
1 recommender
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1 person
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Assembling Life
David Deamer · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2022
1 recommender
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1 person
Autonomous: A Novel
Annalee Newitz · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Ayrton Senna's Principles of Race Driving
Ayrton Senna · 1993
1 recommender
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1 person
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Brent Schlender · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz · 2010
1 recommender
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1 person
Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
Bottle of Lies
Katherine Eban · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White & Garth Williams · 2013
1 recommender
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1 person
Charlotte's Web: A Harper Classic
E. B White · 2001
1 recommender
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1 person
Chimpanzee: Lessons from our Sister Species
Kevin D. Hunt · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Collusion
Luke Harding · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris · 2003
1 recommender
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1 person
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett · 1991
1 recommender
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1 person
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks · 1988
1 recommender
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1 person
Conundrum
Jan Morris · 2006
1 recommender
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1 person
Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull · 2014
1 recommender
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Culture (10 books)
1 person
Culture (10 books)
Iain Banks
1 recommender
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1 person
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Kary Mullis · 2000
1 recommender
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1 person
Dark Universe
Daniel F. Galouye · 2010
1 recommender
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1 person
Data Feminism
Unknown · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Decoherence and the Quantum-to-Classical Transition
Maximilian A. Schlosshauer · 2007
1 recommender
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1 person
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
Diaspora: A Novel
Greg Egan · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Dreams of a Final Theory
Steven Weinberg · 1993
1 recommender
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