The r/AskScience Reading List

Description
You asked, we answered: introducing the AskScience Reading List! We asked our experts what science books they recommend. While this list is a work in progress, we've posted it in hopes that it will help our readers find interesting an enlightening material. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/wiki/booklist
1
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
2,737 members
27 reviews
3.9
2 Members
gypsysmom, buecherportal
2
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,952 members
777 reviews
4.2
Member
gypsysmom
3
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
2,962 members
80 reviews
3.9
Member
buecherportal
5
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
5,414 members
151 reviews
4.1
Member
gypsysmom
7
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
3,191 members
175 reviews
4
Member
gypsysmom
8
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
1,940 members
41 reviews
4.2
Member
gypsysmom
9
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
1,758 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
gypsysmom
10
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
13,026 members
237 reviews
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
11
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
7,713 members
119 reviews
4
Member
gypsysmom
12
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold
5,118 members
74 reviews
4.2
Member
gypsysmom
13
Principles of Instrumental Analysis
by Douglas A. Skoog
196 members
1 review
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
14
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
25,607 members
431 reviews
4.2
15
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
16,607 members
133 reviews
4.1
16
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,958 members
266 reviews
4.1
17
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
14,951 members
136 reviews
½ 4.3
18
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
by Carl Sagan
9,624 members
104 reviews
½ 4.4
19
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
7,698 members
110 reviews
4
20
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
7,680 members
73 reviews
3.9
21
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
6,575 members
79 reviews
4.2
22
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker
6,513 members
63 reviews
4
23
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
6,060 members
216 reviews
½ 4.3
24
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
5,978 members
45 reviews
4.1
25
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte
5,580 members
60 reviews
½ 4.4
26
The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking
5,248 members
45 reviews
3.9
27
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
5,189 members
46 reviews
4
28
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by Albert Einstein
5,133 members
39 reviews
3.9
29
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
5,126 members
88 reviews
4.2
31
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
4,646 members
129 reviews
3.8
32
The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science
by Simon Winchester
4,251 members
89 reviews
½ 3.6
33
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver
3,712 members
93 reviews
3.8
34
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
3,615 members
76 reviews
3.9
35
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
3,551 members
41 reviews
3.8
36
Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan
3,359 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
37
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard Feynman
3,355 members
43 reviews
4.2
38
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
3,303 members
80 reviews
4.2
39
Introduction to Algorithms
by Thomas H. Cormen
2,991 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
40
In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by John Gribbin
2,849 members
30 reviews
3.9
41
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
by Charles Seife
2,772 members
55 reviews
3.8
42
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis
2,589 members
111 reviews
3.9
43
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson
2,331 members
21 reviews
3.9
44
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
by G. Polya
2,283 members
19 reviews
4
45
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
2,266 members
32 reviews
4.1
46
The Planets
by Dava Sobel
2,184 members
53 reviews
½ 3.5
47
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
1,842 members
25 reviews
4.2
48
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Stuart J. Russell
1,806 members
6 reviews
4.1
49
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard Feynman
1,758 members
18 reviews
4.1
50
Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. Coyne
1,717 members
32 reviews
½ 4.3
51
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1-3
by Richard Feynman
1,712 members
13 reviews
½ 4.5
52
The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
1,583 members
17 reviews
4.1
53
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg
1,537 members
17 reviews
3.8
54
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
1,412 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
55
A History of Pi
by Petr Beckmann
1,384 members
17 reviews
½ 3.5
57
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by Nicholas Wade
1,155 members
41 reviews
4
58
A Country Doctor's Notebook
by Mikhail Bulgakov
1,060 members
24 reviews
4.1
59
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant
1,051 members
11 reviews
4.2
60
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
by Sean M. Carroll
973 members
25 reviews
3.8
61
Introduction to Electrodynamics
by David J. Griffiths
963 members
3 reviews
4
62
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
by Leon M. Lederman
925 members
8 reviews
3.9
63
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
905 members
32 reviews
4.2
64
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
by Mike Brown
886 members
37 reviews
4.1
65
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
848 members
68 reviews
3.8
66
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
by Ian Stewart
704 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
69
Classical Mechanics
by Herbert Goldstein
687 members
3 reviews
3.8
70
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
by Andrew Blum
672 members
23 reviews
½ 3.4
71
Classical Electrodynamics
by John David Jackson
658 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
73
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
by Edward Frenkel
584 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
75
The Malay Archipelago
by Alfred Russel Wallace
513 members
9 reviews
4.1
77
The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set
by Donald E. Knuth
498 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6
79
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
by Mary L. Boas
475 members
4 reviews
4.1
81
Modern Quantum Mechanics
by J. J. Sakurai
398 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
82
Mechanics
by Lev Landau
396 members
4 reviews
3.9
83
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
by Horace Freeland Judson
389 members
1 review
4.2
84
What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
by Erwin Schrödinger
357 members
3 reviews
4
85
Elements of Information Theory
by Thomas M. Cover
347 members
1 review
½ 4.3
86
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
by Michael A. Nielsen
340 members
1 review
4.1
87
Principles of Quantum Mechanics
by R. Shankar
333 members
4.1
88
The Classical Theory of Fields
by L. D. Landau
327 members
2 reviews
3.8
89
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
by Anthony Zee
325 members
1 review
3.8
90
The Day We Found the Universe
by Marcia Bartusiak
313 members
9 reviews
4.1
92
Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics
by Frederick Reif
297 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
93
Quantitative Chemical Analysis
by Daniel C. Harris
281 members
½ 3.7
94
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
by Steven Vogel
281 members
1 review
½ 3.5
95
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
by Randal E. Bryant
280 members
½ 3.7
96
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
by Michael E. Peskin
261 members
4
97
Statistical Physics, Part 1
by L. D. Landau
259 members
3.9
98
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
by Valentino Braitenberg
258 members
3 reviews
4.2
99
Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory
by L. D. Landau
253 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
100
Algorithm Design
by Jon Kleinberg
243 members
1 review
½ 3.5