21 Best Science Books
Goal: Find the best Science books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best science books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
21 Best Science Books
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Also recommended by:
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
The Elegant Universe
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
Also recommended by:
Charlie Munger, Matt Ridley, Brian Armstrong, Phil Libin, Ev Williams, Nick Szabo, Mr. Money Mustache, Bob Metcalfe, Tai Lopez, Mark Manson, David Deutsch, Elon Musk
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Also recommended by:
Warren Buffett, Shah Rukh Khan, Stewart Brand, Amanda Palmer, Jamie Dimon, Dominic D'Agostino
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Also recommended by:
The Gene
An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Also recommended by:
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Also recommended by:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Graham, Darren Aronofsky, Matt Ridley
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
Also recommended by:
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
Also recommended by:
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard P. Feynman
Also recommended by:
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
by Stephen Hawking
Chaos
Making a New Science
by James Gleick
The God Equation
The Quest for a Theory of Everything
by Michio Kaku
The Lives of a Cell
Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
Women in Science
50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
by Rachel Ignotofsky
Wonderful Life
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen Jay Gould
Sources
- 1
17 Of The Best Science Books Of All Time For Nonfiction Fans
bookriot.com
- 2
50 of The Best Science Books - 2022 - 2022 The Planets
theplanets.org
- 3
The 100 Best Science Books of All Time - Listmuse.com
listmuse.com
- 4
The Best Science Books | 100 Popular Science Books | OEDb.org
oedb.org
- 5
The Best Books for the Science Lover | Penguin Random House
penguinrandomhouse.com
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