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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
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Nonfiction , Science , Nature , Audiobook , Environment , Biography , Memoir
David Attenborough
2020 32.2K 4.50
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
Space , Nonfiction , Biography , Science , History , Memoir , Autobiography
Michael Collins
1974 6.4K 4.49
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
Nonfiction , Science , Animals , Anthropology , Psychology , Nature , Memoir
Roger Fouts
1997 2.1K 4.47
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Nonfiction , History , Science , True Crime , Anthropology , Memoir , Audiobook
Alexa Hagerty
2023 2.6K 4.46
Wilding
Nonfiction , Nature , Science , Environment , Memoir , Ecology , Natural History
Isabella Tree
2018 8.7K 4.45
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Science , Audiobook , Race , Medical
Uché Blackstock
2024 3.8K 4.44
Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
Nonfiction , Biography , Autobiography , Audiobook , Memoir , Science , Nature
David Attenborough
2002 4.4K 4.40
A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Animals , Biology , Biography , Anthropology
Robert M. Sapolsky
2001 8.5K 4.39
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Animals , Biology , Biography , Anthropology
Robert M. Sapolsky
2001 8.5K 4.39
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Nonfiction , History , Space , Science , Biography , Memoir , American History
Jim Lovell
1994 9.5K 4.38
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Nonfiction , Biography , Nature , History , Science , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Book Club
Will Harlan
2014 3.0K 4.36
In the Shadow of Man
Nonfiction , Science , Animals , Nature , Africa , Anthropology , Memoir
Jane Goodall
2000 8.7K 4.36
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
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Nonfiction , Science , Artificial Intelligence , Memoir , Biography , Technology , Audiobook
Fei-Fei Li
2023 3.6K 4.35
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Audiobook , Neuroscience
Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
1996 11.2K 4.34
Cry of the Kalahari
Nonfiction , Africa , Animals , Travel , Nature , Memoir , Science
Mark Owens
1984 8.0K 4.33
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
Nonfiction , Science , Nature , Animals , Biology , Memoir , Natural History
Merlin Tuttle
2015 1.7K 4.32
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Nonfiction , Medicine , Science , Medical , True Crime , Memoir , Biography
Richard Shepherd
2018 44.6K 4.32
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Biography , Audiobook
Lawrence Ingrassia
2024 1.1K 4.31
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Nonfiction , Death , Science , History , Audiobook , Travel , Memoir
Caitlin Doughty
2017 44.3K 4.30
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
History , Nonfiction , Space , Science , Biography , Memoir , Audiobook
Gene Kranz
2000 10.0K 4.30
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Nonfiction , Biography , Science , Nature , History , Memoir , Audiobook
Brantley Hargrove
2018 1.5K 4.29
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Nonfiction , Science , Animals , Nature , Memoir , Biography , Africa
Jane Goodall
1990 3.2K 4.29
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Health , Biography
Atul Gawande
2002 51.0K 4.28
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Travel , History , Audiobook , Science
Kim Stanley Robinson
2022 1.6K 4.27
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Science , Nonfiction , Biography , Physics , Memoir , Autobiography , History
Richard P. Feynman
1985 210.4K 4.27
Flight: My Life in Mission Control
Space , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Science , Memoir , American History
Christopher Kraft
2002 1.2K 4.27
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Science , Nonfiction , Biography , Physics , Memoir , Autobiography , History
Richard P. Feynman
1985 210.4K 4.27
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Audiobook , True Crime
Judy Melinek
2014 25.8K 4.26
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Essays , Nonfiction , Nature , Environment , Memoir , Science , Politics
Terry Tempest Williams
2019 2.1K 4.25
The Wild Places
Nonfiction , Nature , Travel , Natural History , Memoir , Environment , Science
Robert Macfarlane
2007 5.3K 4.25
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Health , Memoir , Health Care
Atul Gawande
2007 35.9K 4.25
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Biography , Health
Henry Marsh
2014 40.4K 4.25
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Nonfiction , Picture Books , Biography , Science , Africa , Memoir , Middle Grade
William Kamkwamba
2009 10.9K 4.24
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Nonfiction , Nature , History , Travel , Science , Environment , Memoir
Jerry Dennis
2003 1.8K 4.24
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Memoir , Nonfiction , Nature , Biography , Science , Environment , Race
J. Drew Lanham
2016 3.2K 4.23
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Nonfiction , Nature , Science , Memoir , Environment , Ecology , Audiobook
Suzanne Simard
2021 15.2K 4.22
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Nonfiction , Memoir , Death , Science , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir , Book Club
Caitlin Doughty
2014 102.0K 4.22
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Medical , Biography , Science , Biography Memoir
Abraham Verghese
1995 12.5K 4.22
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Nonfiction , Memoir , Death , Science , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir , Book Club
Caitlin Doughty
2014 102.0K 4.22
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Nonfiction , Science , Biography , Space , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Scott Kelly
2017 22.2K 4.21
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Nonfiction , Animals , Nature , Science , Memoir , Biography , Canada
Farley Mowat
1963 25.4K 4.21
Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Medical , Science , Biography , Health , Audiobook
David Fajgenbaum
2019 2.5K 4.20
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Science , Nature , Animals , Spirituality
Jane Goodall
1998 5.4K 4.20
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Nonfiction , Animals , Science , Memoir , Nature , Audiobook , Biography
John Hargrove
2015 7.2K 4.20
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Science , History , Biography Memoir , Space , Book Club
Homer Hickam
1998 23.3K 4.20
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Nonfiction , Biography , Medicine , Memoir , Science , Medical , Health , Book Club
Tracy Kidder
2003 86.7K 4.20
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Nonfiction , Medicine , Anthropology , Medical , Science , History , Memoir , Book Club
Anne Fadiman
1997 86.5K 4.20
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Nonfiction , Nature , Science , Memoir , Audiobook , Environment , Self Help
Jane Goodall
2021 16.5K 4.19