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I’m looking for recommendations for good science non fiction books to read.

I’m looking for recommendations for good science non fiction books to read. I noticed my future reads are all fiction so I need something different and educational perhaps . Thank you! 🙂

Emily #recommend #nonfiction #science

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Mary

The Disappearing Spoon

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Mary

By Sam Kean

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Mary

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (this is, hands down, one of the best non fiction science books I ever read. )

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Kris

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Nicole

Bonk by Mary Roach

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Brenda

Hidden Figures

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Colin

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford

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Deborah

I love Oliver Sacks and VS Ramachandran for neurology narratives. Mary Roach is also a favorite, Bonk as above, or Stiff

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Colin

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Alan Lightman

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Colin

The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart

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EmilyQuestion author

Earthworms?! I definitely need to read that.

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Colin

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre

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Mary

I mentioned Bad Science up above. LOVE that book

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Colin

@Mary so you did 😀

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Mary

He does a great job of explaining blind studies, double blind studies, placebo effects, etc.

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Colin

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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Colin

I’ve got loads more…

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Colin

Brian Greene has some very good books, The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos etc

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Rosemary

My fave non fiction authors –

Huval Yurari
Oliver Sacks
Malcolm Gladwell
Mary Roach
Bill Bryson

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Colin

The Self Illusion: Why There Is No “You” Inside Your Head by Bruce Hood

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Colin

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

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Syed

Do you have a specific subject you have in mind? Physics? Biology? Maths?

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EmilyQuestion author

I love biology. Physics and chemistry are intriguing as well!

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Syed

Okies. For biology, I would recommend books by Richard Dawkins. The Greatest Show on Earth is amazing. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman or Feathers by Thor Hanson. Also, The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Indica by Pranay Lal (lovely illustrations).

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Syed

For physics: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose. In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat by John Gribbin. The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin.

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Syed

Oh, The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee is amazing as well. A personal history of the gene. So intriguing. And p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code by Sue Armstrong. Or The Cancer Chronicles by Samuel Johnson.

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EmilyQuestion author

Thank you so much, @Syed! 🙂 I will be adding these to my list.

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Colin

Anything by Richard Dawkins, his books about evolution etc are all amazing

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Colin

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss

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EmilyQuestion author

These are all fantastic suggestions! The last non fiction I read was Stiff but that was a year ago. I loved that book. The science behind decomposition was fascinating.

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Colin

Michio Kaku has some very good physics related books

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Colin

https://www.learnoutloud.com/Resources/Publishers-and-Retailers/Modern-Scholar/80

If you in to something a bit more academic, I have some of these and they are excellent

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Colin

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

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Emily

Great book!

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Naomi

Cannibalism by Bill Schutt

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Joanie

Stiff by Mary Roach

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Cindy

Bill Bryson- a short history of nearly everything

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TG

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. It is on my TBR for about 2 years, your question remind me about it.

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Catherine

The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris.
For a fun sort of introduction, check out this video! I heard about the book in my psych class in college and this is the video my professor showed us to intro the subject. (It’s not spam but if you don’t want to click the link, search for test your awareness on YouTube!)
https://youtu.be/UfA3ivLK_tE

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Debbie

Immortal Story of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

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Jenn

Science? “The Relativity of Wrong” by Isaac Asimov; “Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan. just off the top of my head….

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Elaine

Fire on earth , brief history of nearly everything, anything by Stephen j. Would, anything by “your personnel astrophysics – Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Barbara

The Gene

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Rosalie

Stiff by Mary Roach

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Steven

The Ascent Of Man. Cosmos. Science: A History. James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed Everything. The Lunar Men.

There’s a great book on how the Romantics discovered science, but I can’t remember its name! I think it’s by the same guy that wrote a biography on Percy Shelley (not that that’s much help!).

Quantum was superb.

Paul Dirac: The Strangest Man

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Ruth

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Amazing book.

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Quintino

The making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes or Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter

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Rey

A Natural History or the Senses by Diane Ackerman

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Carolyn

Emperor of All Maladies:!A Biography of Cancer and The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee are both wonderful…

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Lynn

Sorry … late to the party ?. But had to suggest The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. Soooo good.

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