Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work. ...more

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine
The Secrets of our DNA: How Genetics has Changed the World
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
The Madness Pill: One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea
You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy
The Book of Cannabis: The History and Future of the Plant and the Drug
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
How to Talk to AI (and How Not To)
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
  • Dad Brain by Darby  Saxbe
    Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives
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  • The Super Seeders by Miles Hillmann
    The Super Seeders: How Plant Scientists Are Racing to Protect Global Food Security Amid Climate Change and Disease

    Release date: May 02, 2026
    Scientists are racing to save the future of food. Discover the genetic revolution transforming global agriculture.
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  • A Better State of Repair by David J.P. Baar
    A Better State of Repair: The benefits of making the products that we use last longer, through repair, maintenance, and optimized usage
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  • Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Abundance
    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
    Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
    Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
    Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
    Playground
    Whalefall
    Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
    Elon Musk
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
    Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSingle at Heart by Bella DePaulo
    Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
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    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsFoundation by Isaac AsimovDune by Frank HerbertRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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    421 books — 519 voters
    Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate HunterHeretical Fishing by Haylock JobsonBeing a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara PascoeThe Three Witches and the Master by Max NowazA Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes
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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth Schmitt
    Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    The Gene: An Intimate History
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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