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21 Best Science Books

Goal: Find the best Science books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best science books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

21 Best Science Books

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1

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

Also recommended by:

Richard Branson, James Clear

2

Cosmos

by Carl Sagan

Also recommended by:

Richard Branson, Bill Nye

3

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Also recommended by:

Jordan Peterson

4

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

5

The Elegant Universe

Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

by Brian Greene

8

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

9

The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

10

The Gene

An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

11

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

12

Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt

13

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

Also recommended by:

Lewis Cantley, Chris Dixon, Trung Phan

14

Six Easy Pieces

Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

by Richard P. Feynman

Also recommended by:

Naval Ravikant

15

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

Also recommended by:

A.J. Jacobs

16

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

by Stephen Hawking

17

Chaos

Making a New Science

by James Gleick

18

The God Equation

The Quest for a Theory of Everything

by Michio Kaku

19

The Lives of a Cell

Notes of a Biology Watcher

by Lewis Thomas

20

Women in Science

50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

by Rachel Ignotofsky

21

Wonderful Life

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

by Stephen Jay Gould

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Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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