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Pale Rider

Pale Rider
ByLaura Spinney

2017 • 47 Readers • 332 pages 3.8

Periodic Tales

Periodic Tales
ByHugh Aldersey-Williams

2011 • 36 Readers • 428 pages 3.9

Plagues Upon the Earth

31 The Princeton Economic History of the Western World

2021 • 12 Readers • 704 pages 4.2

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

2007 • 72 Readers • 310 pages 3.3

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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

1985 • 95 Readers • 192 pages 4.5

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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

2007 • 10 Readers • 432 pages 4

Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe

2005 • 5 Readers • 200 pages 3.5

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Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things

2007 • 26 Readers • 323 pages 3.5

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

2019 • 518 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

Rest

Rest
ByAlex Soojung-Kim Pang

2016 • 61 Readers 3.8

RHS Botany for Gardeners

2013 • 4 Readers • 224 pages 3

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Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything

2022 • 19 Readers 4.7

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,482 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

2014 • 299 Readers • 96 pages 3.9

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Six Easy Pieces

Six Easy Pieces
ByRichard P. Feynman

1994 • 154 Readers • 144 pages 4.2

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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It

2003 • 3 Readers • 269 pages 4.5

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Space: 10 Things You Should Know
ByBecky Smethurst, Becky Smethurst

1 Reader

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

2015 • 156 Readers • 352 pages 3.9

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

2014 • 296 Readers • 353 pages 3.5

Superior: The Return of Race Science

2019 • 74 Readers • 258 pages 4.5

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman

2014 • 1 Reader • 372 pages

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

305 Readers 3.8

The Awakened Brain

The Awakened Brain
ByLisa Miller

2021 • 10 Readers • 288 pages 4.5

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

2010 • 247 Readers • 832 pages 3.9

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

#2 of 5 in Incerto

2007 • 470 Readers • 444 pages 3.7

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
ByBill Bryson(Narrator)

2019 • 504 Readers • 14h 48m 4.2

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

2014 • 935 Readers • 466 pages 4.3

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2020 • 4 Readers 4

The Cloudspotter's Guide

The Cloudspotter's Guide
ByGavin Pretor-Pinney

2006 • 25 Readers • 320 pages 3.6

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

1996 • 259 Readers • 434 pages 4.2

The Code Breaker

The Code Breaker
ByWalter Isaacson

2021 • 257 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

The Dinosaur Hunters

The Dinosaur Hunters
ByDeborah Cadbury

2000 • 6 Readers • 374 pages

The Drunkard's Walk

The Drunkard's Walk
ByLeonard Mlodinow

2008 • 130 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

The Earth After Us

The Earth After Us
ByJan Zalasiewicz

2008 • 5 Readers • 251 pages 3.5

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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History

2007 • 3 Readers • 288 pages 5

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The End of Overeating

The End of Overeating
ByDavid A. Kessler

2009 • 25 Readers • 607 pages 3.4

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The Epigenetics Revolution

2011 • 37 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

The Fast Diet

The Fast Diet
ByMichael Mosley,Mimi Spencer

14 Readers 3.6

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The Gene

The Gene
BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2016 • 398 Readers • 742 pages 4.3

The Genius Factory

The Genius Factory
ByDavid Plotz

2005 • 4 Readers • 288 pages 3

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The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure

2022 • 16 Readers • 196 pages 4.4

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The Great Mathematical Problems

2013 • 3 Readers • 352 pages 4

The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

2019 • 46 Readers • 397 pages 4.3

The Happiness Project

The Happiness Project
ByGretchen Rubin

2009 • 292 Readers • 315 pages 3.5

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

2007 • 92 Readers • 321 pages 4

The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past

1993 • 3 Readers 4

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

#1 of 3 in The Mysteries of Nature Series

2015 • 378 Readers • 250 pages 4

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

2024 • 3 Readers • 298 pages

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

2011 • 179 Readers • 527 pages 4.1

The Invention of Nature

2015 • 140 Readers • 473 pages 4.1

The Joy of Science

The Joy of Science
ByJim Al-Khalili

6 Readers 3

The Knowledge

The Knowledge
ByLewis Dartnell

2014 • 58 Readers • 340 pages 3.8

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1990 • 9 Readers • 120 pages 4

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The Lost Rainforests of Britain

2022 • 18 Readers • 370 pages 4.6

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

2021 • 2 Readers • 353 pages

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

1985 • 715 Readers • 300 pages 3.9

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology

2001 • 73 Readers • 356 pages 3.7

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

2015 • 80 Readers • 352 pages 3.1

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2012 • 8 Readers 4

The Music of the Primes

The Music of the Primes
ByMarcus du Sautoy

2003 • 54 Readers • 335 pages 4.4

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The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet

2024 • 4 Readers • 364 pages

The Number Mysteries

The Number Mysteries
ByMarcus du Sautoy

2010 • 4 Readers • 38 pages 3

The Obesity Code

The Obesity Code
ByJason Fung,Timothy Noakes

2016 • 102 Readers • 315 pages 4.2

The Order of Time

The Order of Time
ByCarlo Rovelli

2017 • 303 Readers • 172 pages 3.9

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

2014 • 121 Readers • 528 pages 3.4

The Painful Truth: The New Science of Our Aches, Agonies and Afflictions

2021 • 4 Readers • 304 pages 4.5

The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything

2018 • 13 Readers • 237 pages 3.5

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

2012 • 462 Readers • 500 pages 4.4

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

#1 of 5 in The Rise and Fall

2018 • 354 Readers • 416 pages 4.2

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

#3 of 5 in The Rise and Fall

2022 • 94 Readers • 500 pages 4.3

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

2012 • 326 Readers • 545 pages 3.9

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

2022 • 179 Readers • 496 pages 4.3

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

2013 • 47 Readers • 338 pages 4.2

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

2013 • 58 Readers 4.2

The Telomere Effect

The Telomere Effect
ByElizabeth Blackburn,Elissa Epel,+1 more

2017 • 27 Readers • 416 pages 3.4

The World Without Us

The World Without Us
ByAlan Weisman

2008 • 45 Readers • 416 pages 3.7

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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut

2022 • 6 Readers • 353 pages 4

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow
ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 1,669 Readers • 499 pages 4.1

Think Like a Freak

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Think Like a Freak
BySteven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner

2014 • 160 Readers • 246 pages 3.7

Thinner Leaner Stronger

Thinner Leaner Stronger
ByMichael Matthews

2012 • 1 Reader • 330 pages

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This Is Your Mind on Plants

2021 • 178 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

Tribe

Tribe
BySebastian Junger

2016 • 155 Readers • 192 pages 3.8

Trilobite

Trilobite
ByRichard Fortey

2000 • 9 Readers • 284 pages 4

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

2023 • 145 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Underland

Underland
ByRobert Macfarlane

2019 • 239 Readers • 488 pages 4.2

Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases

2019 • 5 Readers • 528 pages 4

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Vaxxers
BySarah Gilbert,Catherine Green

2021 • 6 Readers • 304 pages