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Title Year Ratings Rating
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Nonfiction , Science , Audiobook , Indigenous , Memoir , Environment , Essays , Book Club
Robin Wall Kimmerer
2013 149.3K 4.52
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Nonfiction , Environment , Climate Change , Science , Essays , Nature , Sustainability
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
2020 6.1K 4.43
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Nonfiction , Nature , Science , Audiobook , Environment , Ecology , Essays
Robin Wall Kimmerer
2003 17.6K 4.39
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Nonfiction , Essays , Audiobook , Memoir , History , Science , Short Stories , Book Club
John Green
2021 151.7K 4.36
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Nonfiction , Audiobook , Health , Social Justice , Feminism , Essays , Science
Aubrey Gordon
2023 11.0K 4.33
The Immense Journey
Science , Nonfiction , Nature , Essays , Philosophy , Natural History , Anthropology
Loren Eiseley
2.5K 4.31
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Nonfiction , Nature , Science , Environment , Classics , Philosophy , Essays
Aldo Leopold
1949 34.5K 4.31
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Philosophy , Psychology , Anthropology , Nonfiction , Science , Essays , Ecology
Gregory Bateson
2000 1.4K 4.26
The Control of Nature
Nonfiction , Science , Nature , History , Environment , Essays , Geology
John McPhee
1989 4.8K 4.26
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Essays , Nonfiction , Nature , Environment , Memoir , Science , Politics
Terry Tempest Williams
2019 2.1K 4.25
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science , Nonfiction , Physics , Biography , Philosophy , Essays , Audiobook
Richard P. Feynman
1999 13.1K 4.23
Encounters with the Archdruid
Nonfiction , Nature , Environment , Science , Essays , Biography , History
John McPhee
1980 6.5K 4.22
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Science , Physics , Nonfiction , Popular Science , Essays , Education , Mathematics
Richard P. Feynman
1994 29.6K 4.21
Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Essays , Science , Nature , Christian , Theology
Wendell Berry
2000 1.2K 4.20
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Essays , Science , Nature , Christian , Theology
Wendell Berry
2001 1.2K 4.20
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Psychology , Nonfiction , Psychoanalysis , Journalism , Science , Philosophy , Essays
Janet Malcolm
1981 1.3K 4.18
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Science , Nonfiction , Physics , Astronomy , Essays , Popular Science , Space , Philosophy
Stephen Hawking
1993 18.0K 4.18
The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Philosophy , Science , Psychology , Short Stories , Audiobook
Elisa Gabbert
2020 1.8K 4.18
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Nonfiction , Science , Environment , Nature , Climate Change , Essays , Politics
Elizabeth Rush
2018 2.4K 4.17
On Certainty
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Psychology , Essays , Language , Classics , Science
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1972 4.8K 4.16
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Science , Psychology , Neuroscience , Essays , Artificial Intelligence
Douglas R. Hofstadter
1985 5.9K 4.15
A Natural History of the Senses
Nonfiction , Science , History , Essays , Nature , Psychology , Natural History
Diane Ackerman
1990 7.8K 4.15
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Science , Nonfiction , Writing , Biology , Popular Science , Essays , Physics
Richard Dawkins
2008 1.6K 4.15
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Nonfiction , Science , Psychology , Neuroscience , Medicine , Essays , Medical
Oliver Sacks
1995 23.1K 4.15
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Science , Nonfiction , Biology , Essays , Nature , Philosophy , Medicine
Lewis Thomas
1974 10.3K 4.14
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Science , Nonfiction , Biology , Evolution , Essays , Natural History , History
Stephen Jay Gould
1992 6.8K 4.12
THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
Science , Nonfiction , Biology , Evolution , Essays , Natural History , History
Stephen Jay Gould
1980 6.8K 4.12
When We Cease to Understand the World
Science , Nonfiction , History , Philosophy , Short Stories , Essays , Audiobook
Benjamín Labatut
2020 52.1K 4.12
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Nonfiction , Psychology , Mental Health , Memoir , Audiobook , Science , Essays
Rachel Aviv
2022 13.2K 4.11
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Science , Nonfiction , Evolution , Biology , Natural History , Essays , History
Stephen Jay Gould
1983 2.2K 4.11
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Essays , Queer , LGBT , Nature
Sabrina Imbler
2022 12.7K 4.10
Vesper Flights
Nonfiction , Nature , Essays , Science , Memoir , Animals , Birds
Helen Macdonald
2020 7.9K 4.10
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Science , Nonfiction , Physics , Astronomy , Space , Audiobook , Essays
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2006 31.6K 4.10
The Secret Lives of Color
Nonfiction , Art , History , Design , Science , Art History , Essays
Kassia St. Clair
2016 17.8K 4.09
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
Science , Nonfiction , Biology , Essays , Nature , Philosophy , Natural History
Lewis Thomas
1995 1.8K 4.08
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Essays , Classics , Philosophy , Science
Annie Dillard
1974 28.7K 4.08
Things That Are
Nonfiction , Essays , Nature , Science , Poetry , Animals , Short Stories
Amy Leach
2012 1.1K 4.07
What I Believe
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Essays , Atheism , Audiobook , Science , Politics
Bertrand Russell
1925 4.1K 4.07
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Science , Nonfiction , Philosophy , History , Psychology , Popular Science , Essays
Carl Sagan
1979 10.8K 4.05
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Nonfiction , Nature , Essays , Memoir , Science , Poetry , Animals
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2020 22.5K 4.05
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Nonfiction , Science , Medicine , Psychology , Popular Science , Essays , Health
Ben Goldacre
2014 2.8K 4.04
Oranges
Nonfiction , History , Food , Nature , Science , Essays , Environment
John McPhee
1967 3.7K 4.04
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
China , Nonfiction , Technology , Science , Asia , Politics , Essays
Xiaowei Wang
2020 1.9K 4.04
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Nonfiction , Philosophy , Atheism , Science , Essays , History , Sociology
Christopher Hitchens
2007 18.8K 4.03
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Philosophy , Religion , Nonfiction , Atheism , Essays , Classics , Science
Bertrand Russell
21.6K 4.01
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Science , Nonfiction , Physics , Audiobook , Philosophy , Essays , Popular Science
Carlo Rovelli
2014 63.0K 3.99
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Science , Nonfiction , Philosophy , Religion , Essays , Biology , Atheism
Richard Dawkins
2004 7.9K 3.98
Religion and Science
Philosophy , Science , Nonfiction , Atheism , History , Audiobook , Essays
Bertrand Russell
1997 3.2K 3.96
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Nonfiction , History , Science , Art , Museums , Essays , Nature
Lawrence Weschler
1995 2.8K 3.95
The River of Consciousness
Nonfiction , Science , Psychology , Essays , Philosophy , Neuroscience , Medicine
Oliver Sacks
2017 6.7K 3.95