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Goodreads General Science Books

Top 100 books from Goodread list: Best General Science Books, Non-fiction books about neuroscience, genetics, biology, physiology, ecology, etc, etc..
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Cosmos
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Carl Sagan
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins
King Solomon's Ring
King Solomon's Ring
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Origin of Species
Origin of Species
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The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth
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Collapse
Collapse
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The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World
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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell
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The Ancestor's Tale
The Ancestor's Tale
12
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Matt Ridley)
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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Matt Ridley
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
14
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Fabric of the Cosmos
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Mary Roach
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Silent Spring
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Rachel Carson
Wonderful Life
Wonderful Life
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The Double Helix
The Double Helix
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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
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Simon Singh
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate
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The Coming Plague (Laurie Garrett)
The Coming Plague
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Laurie Garrett
The Brain That Changes Itself (Norman Doidge, M.D.)
The Brain That Changes Itself
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Norman Doidge, M.D.
Fermat's Enigma (Simon Singh)
Fermat's Enigma
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Simon Singh
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
29
Siddhartha Mukherjee
An Anthropologist on Mars
An Anthropologist on Mars
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Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Carl Zimmer)
Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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Carl Zimmer
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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Voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin)
Voyage of the Beagle
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Charles Darwin
The Red Queen by Mark Ridley
The Red Queen by Mark Ridley
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The Hot Zone (Richard Preston)
The Hot Zone
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Richard Preston
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
36
Rebecca Skloot
Chaos
Chaos
37
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain
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Discovering Life on Earth
Discovering Life on Earth
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What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by E
What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by E
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