For Science!

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Non-fiction books about science, suitable for the generalist.
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur
1,467 members
24 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AnnaClaire, Alerticus
3
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
7,132 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
AnnaClaire
4
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
by Robert Zubrin
880 members
15 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
5
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
by Paul Bogard
428 members
18 reviews
4.1
Member
inge87
6
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
by Jeffrey Kluger
195 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
7
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian
1,887 members
51 reviews
4
Member
Alerticus
8
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
by Timothy Ferris
1,209 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
9
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
by Peter D. Ward
550 members
10 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
11
Longitude
by Dava Sobel
9,488 members
191 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
12
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel Lieberman
760 members
20 reviews
4
Member
inge87
13
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
by William Rosen
87 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
14
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
4,597 members
184 reviews
4.1
Member
inge87
15
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
by Barbara Goldsmith
533 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
16
Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
by Richard Wolfson
185 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
Bretzky1
17
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
4,643 members
129 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
18
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
by Beth Shapiro
215 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
inge87
19
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension
by Albert A. Harrison
78 members
4
Member
Bretzky1
20
Seeing in the dark
by Timothy Ferris
486 members
11 reviews
4
Member
AnnaClaire
21
Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
by Robert Zubrin
372 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
23
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
5,973 members
45 reviews
4.1
Member
AnnaClaire
24
The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
by Tom Standage
196 members
3 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
25
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
by Brian Fagan
93 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
26
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by Simon Winchester
2,480 members
76 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
AnnaClaire
30
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris
1,722 members
13 reviews
4.2
Member
AnnaClaire
32
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
187 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
33
The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science
by Simon Winchester
4,256 members
89 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
AnnaClaire
34
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by Bryan Sykes
2,086 members
35 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
35
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
by Bryan Sykes
881 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
AnnaClaire
36
The Planets
by Dava Sobel
2,180 members
53 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
AnnaClaire
37
The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
1,872 members
86 reviews
4
Member
AnnaClaire
38
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry
4,943 members
144 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire