Genre
science
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
1986
The Master and His Emissary
Iain McGilchrist
2009
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
2010
Metazoa
Peter Godfrey-Smith
2020
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
2011
★The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
2011
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman
2015
★Outlive
Peter Attia
2023
★The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
2020
★Helgoland
Carlo Rovelli
2020
★Underland
Robert Macfarlane
2019
The Tacit Dimension
Michael Polanyi
1966
★The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur
2009
Systemantics
John Gall
1977
★The Open Society and its Enemies
Karl Popper
1945
The Strategy of Conflict
Thomas C. Schelling
1981
The Evolution of Everything
Matt Ridley
2015
Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows
2008
Gut Feelings
Gerd Gigerenzer
2007
★How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
2020
★The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
2001
Deep Medicine
Eric Topol
2019
★An Elegant Defense
Matt Richtel
2019
★On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
2004
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
2016
★Pacific
Simon Winchester
2015
Altered Traits
Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
2017
Range
David Epstein
2019
Wayfinding
M.R. O'Connor
2019
America Before
Graham Hancock
2019
Blueprint
Nicholas A. Christakis
2019
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2007
★Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
2017
Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
2019
★The Breakthrough
Charles Graeber
2018
★The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt
2005
★The Tangled Tree
David Quammen
2018
★Reality is Not What it Seems
Carlo Rovelli
2016
The Story of Maps
Lloyd A. Brown
1949
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
2018
Energy
Richard Rhodes
2018
★Chaos
James Gleick
1987
★The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
1999
★The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
2018
★Cosmos
Carl Sagan
1980
★Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
2018
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
2018
★Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil DeGrasse-Tyson
2017
★Scale
Geoffrey West
2017
★Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
2015
★Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
2014
★The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
★Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
2011
★The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
1967
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
2012
★Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
1998
★The Control of Nature
John McPhee
1990
Connected
Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
2008
Spying With Maps
Mark Monmonier
2002
★In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
2007
The Botany of Desire
Michael Pollan
2001
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
2006