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Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 71,258 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.18 avg rating — 30,833 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 86,542 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 792,683 ratings
score: 286,
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
score: 200,
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,110 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 10,684 ratings
score: 189,
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 55,425 ratings
score: 189,
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When Breath Becomes Air
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4.41 avg rating — 778,523 ratings
score: 188,
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Time Travel: A History
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 4,680 ratings
score: 185,
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 10,037 ratings
score: 179,
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,592 ratings
score: 177,
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The Science of Interstellar
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4.29 avg rating — 6,670 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 415,709 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,177 ratings
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Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
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Paul Stamets (Editor)
4.39 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
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3.93 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 202,037 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,675 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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4.41 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Nichola Raihani (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 630 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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3.98 avg rating — 1,352 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,054 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,417 ratings
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Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
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3.54 avg rating — 587 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 58,908 ratings
score: 97,
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,081 ratings
score: 96,
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,896 ratings
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A Slow Passion: Snails, My Garden and Me
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4.16 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,592 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 53,881 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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4.05 avg rating — 4,368 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,613 ratings
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The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
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Now: The Physics of Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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Paul Greenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 6,874 ratings
score: 89,
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Gabrielle Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 417 ratings
score: 88,
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
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4.22 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
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3.74 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
score: 87,
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
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Deborah Cramer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 87,
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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Maria Konnikova (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 5,900 ratings
score: 86,
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 54,582 ratings
score: 85,
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The Polar Bear (Volume 2) (Endangered Animals, 2)
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4.26 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
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3.75 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.59 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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4.26 avg rating — 6,181 ratings
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Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
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4.03 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
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4.03 avg rating — 2,521 ratings
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
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4.15 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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Envisioning Information
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4.23 avg rating — 7,923 ratings
score: 72,
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Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use
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3.90 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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4.14 avg rating — 5,927 ratings
score: 70,
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