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Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only (Feb 2022)

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Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
Popular or even technical science books that you thought were really well done.
Note: Please keep it to actual science - no politics or nutrition, unless the focus is very definitely on science. No science fiction, politics, history, religion, or self-help. Any book that doesn't meet the criteria will be removed.
I stopped after the first 240 books in the list though there's a more varied list waiting to be compiled!
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
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Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
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The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Carl Sagan)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Carl Sagan)
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Richard P. Feynman)
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Richard P. Feynman)
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The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythi
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythi
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest Fo
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest Fo
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)
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The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Richard Preston)
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Richard Preston)
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Richard P. Feynman)
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Richard P. Feynman)
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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell
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The Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins)
The Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins)
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Chaos - Making a New Science (James Gleick)
Chaos - Making a New Science (James Gleick)
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The Ancestor's Tale (Richard Dawkins)
The Ancestor's Tale (Richard Dawkins)
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Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the (Sam Kean)
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the (Sam Kean)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Fermat's Enigma (Simon Singh)
Fermat's Enigma (Simon Singh)
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
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The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Matt Ridley)
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Matt Ridley)
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Dava Sobel)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Dava Sobel)
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Neil Shubin)
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Neil Shubin)
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Simon Singh)
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Simon Singh)
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THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes
THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes
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Six Easy Pieces (Richard Feynman)
Six Easy Pieces (Richard Feynman)
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)
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Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams)
Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams)
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