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Best Science Books
The books that reveal how the universe works — from the subatomic to the cosmic. These works make the greatest scientific discoveries accessible and show why understanding nature changes how we live.
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking · 1988
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859
Cosmos
Carl Sagan · 1980
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins · 1976
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 1997
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 2003
The Double Helix
James D. Watson · 1968
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman · 1985
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 2010
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson · 2017
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene · 1999
Relativity
Albert Einstein · 1916
Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton · 1687
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows · 2008