Shelf · 22 recaps
Science
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22 books
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
An Immense World
Ed Yong
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Fermat's Enigma
Simon Singh
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Fire Weather
John Vaillant
How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik
The Information
James Gleick
Being You
Anil Seth
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith