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A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

ByAndrew Dickson White

1896 • 1 Reader • 452 pages

Reclaiming Conversation

Reclaiming Conversation

BySherry Turkle

2015 • 28 Readers • 436 pages • 3.6

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

ByMaryanne Wolf

2007 • 53 Readers • 310 pages • 3.5

Bored and Brilliant

Bored and Brilliant

ByManoush Zomorodi

Dark Orbit

Twenty Planets

ByCarolyn Ives Gilman

2015 • 37 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

ByDavid Grinspoon

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck

BySarah Knight

2015 • 94 Readers • 224 pages • 3.2

The Blue Nowhere

The blue nowhere

ByJeffery Deaver

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 3,015 Readers • 398 pages • 4.4

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

ByBurton G. Malkiel

1973 • 38 Readers • 440 pages • 4.2

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This Fight Is Our Fight

This Fight Is Our Fight

ByElizabeth Warren

2017 • 5 Readers • 4

Rotherweird

#1 of 3 in Rotherweird

ByAndrew Caldecott

2017 • 42 Readers • 480 pages • 3.5

The King's Bastard

#1 of 4 in King Rolen's Kin

The King's Bastard

ByRowena Cory Daniells

2010 • 14 Readers • 448 pages • 2.5

Murmurs of Earth

Murmurs of Earth

ByCarl Sagan

Nikola Tesla

BySean Patrick

2013 • 17 Readers • 47 pages • 3.6

Just a Geek

ByWil Wheaton

2004 • 67 Readers • 267 pages • 4

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System

ByRay Jayawardhana

2011 • 3 Readers • 278 pages

Bad Astronomy

ByPhilip Plait

2002 • 16 Readers • 277 pages • 4.2

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

#1 of 2 in Mark Manson Collection

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

ByMark Manson

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

ByCathy O'Neil

2016 • 264 Readers • 274 pages • 3.7

A Clash of Kings

#2 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Clash of Kings

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows

#4 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Feast for Crows

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Game of Thrones

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

1996 • 3,041 Readers • 819 pages • 4.4

A Dance with Dragons

#5 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Dance with Dragons

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords

#3 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Storm of Swords

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

ByMichael Withey

2016 • 2 Readers • 140 pages

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

ByAli Almossawi

Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

ByKostas Kampourakis(Editor),Ronald L. Numbers(Editor)

2015 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

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Truth or Truthiness

Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist

ByHoward Wainer

1 Reader

Climate change

ByJoseph Romm

2015 • 5 Readers • 328 pages • 5

A Vision of Fire

#1 of 3 in The Earthend Saga

A Vision of Fire

ByGillian Anderson,Jeff Rovin

2014 • 14 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

You're Never Weird on the Internet

You're Never Weird on the Internet

ByFelicia Day

The Republican War on Science

The Republican War on Science

ByChris C. Mooney

2005 • 4 Readers • 376 pages • 4.5

We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program

We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program

ByRichard Paul,Steven Moss

2015 • 2 Readers • 274 pages

Kepler's Witch

ByJames A. Connor

2004 • 2 Readers • 416 pages

The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter

The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter

ByBenjamin Woolley

1999 • 3 Readers • 416 pages

Crimes Against Logic

Crimes Against Logic

ByJamie Whyte

2004 • 3 Readers • 176 pages • 5

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

ByJames Randi,Arthur C. Clarke

1995 • 3 Readers

The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

ByNeal Stephenson

1995 • 444 Readers • 4

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

ByJennifer Ouellette

2010 • 6 Readers • 333 pages • 4

Nobel Prize Women in Science

Nobel Prize Women in Science

BySharon Bertsch McGrayne

2001 • 2 Readers • 472 pages

Sleeping with Your Smartphone

Sleeping with Your Smartphone

ByLeslie A. Perlow

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

#1 of 1 in Voodoo Science

ByRobert L. Park

2000 • 4 Readers • 242 pages • 4

Fool

#1 of 3 in Fool

ByChristopher Moore

Origins

ByNeil deGrasse Tyson,Donald Goldsmith

2004 • 23 Readers • 352 pages • 4.6

Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

ByKitty Ferguson

2002 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

Roving Mars

BySteve Squyres

2005 • 3 Readers • 434 pages

Fragile Things

ByNeil Gaiman

Something red a novel

#1 of 1 in Something Red

ByDouglas Nicholas

2010 • 6 Readers • 325 pages

Chasing Venus

ByAndrea Wulf

2012 • 7 Readers • 346 pages • 3

Unscientific America

Unscientific America

ByChris C. Mooney,Sheril Kirshenbaum

2009 • 4 Readers • 224 pages

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

ByCharles C. Mann

2005 • 291 Readers • 578 pages • 4.1

Scarlet

#1 of 3 in Scarlet

ByA.C. Gaughen

2012 • 41 Readers • 292 pages • 3.6

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

ByNeil Gaiman

1998 • 207 Readers • 356 pages • 4

Fraudes paranormales: fenómenos ocultos, percepción extrasensorial y otros engaños

ByJames Randi

1982 • 11 Readers • 159 pages • 5

Dreams Underfoot

Dreams Underfoot

ByCharles de Lint

61 Readers • 3.8

Letters to Erik

Letters to Erik

ByAn Wallace

2008

In the Night Garden

#1 of 2 in The Orphan's Tales

In the Night Garden

ByCatherynne M. Valente

2006 • 94 Readers • 496 pages • 4.3

Flatterland : like flatland only more so

Flatterland : like flatland only more so

ByIan Stewart

2001 • 15 Readers • 320 pages • 2.5

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

ByEileen Pollack

2 Readers

Queen of Shadows

#4 of 7 in Throne of Glass

Queen of Shadows

BySarah J. Maas

2015 • 782 Readers • 648 pages • 4.5

The Silver Bough

The Silver Bough

ByLisa Tuttle

The Book Thief

ByMarkus Zusak

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

ByNeil Gaiman

Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason

Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason

ByDavid Niose

2014 • 1 Reader • 258 pages

Turing's cathedral

Turing's cathedral

ByGeorge Dyson

2012 • 2 Readers • 5

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

#2 of 5 in Incerto

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

ByNassim Nicholas Taleb

2007 • 361 Readers • 444 pages • 3.8

Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist

Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist

ByChad Orzel

2014 • 3 Readers

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

ByRon Garan

2015 • 1 Reader • 185 pages

Conversations with Carl Sagan

Conversations with Carl Sagan

ByCarl Sagan

2006 • 5 Readers • 167 pages

Smart Thinking

ByArt Markman

2012 • 2 Readers • 272 pages • 5

Blink

ByMalcolm Gladwell

2004 • 602 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Black: The Birth of Evil

#1 of 3 in The Circle

The Circle Trilogy

ByTed Dekker

2003 • 60 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

ByMichelle Bamberger,Robert Oswald

2014 • 1 Reader • 249 pages

Think

ByGuy P. Harrison

2 Readers • 3

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

#1 of 2 in What If?

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

ByRandall Munroe

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

ByAndy Weir

Stop Bellyaching! It's Only a Presentation!: How to Assess Your Skills & Transform Yourself into a Great Speaker

Stop Bellyaching! It's Only a Presentation!: How to Assess Your Skills & Transform Yourself into a Great Speaker

ByLloyd E. Corder

Emotional overeating

Emotional overeating

ByMarcia Sirota

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

ByBrian Wansink

2006 • 29 Readers • 215 pages • 4.2

Why Smart People Hurt

Why Smart People Hurt

ByEric Maisel

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

ByMichael Moss

2013 • 88 Readers • 480 pages • 3.9

Great Observatories of the World

Great Observatories of the World

BySerge Brunier,Anne-Marie Lagrange

2005 • 1 Reader • 240 pages

Binocular Astronomy

Binocular Astronomy

ByStephen F. Tonkin

2006 • 1 Reader • 284 pages

SETI Pioneers: Scientists Talk about Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SETI Pioneers: Scientists Talk about Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

ByDavid W. Swift

1990 • 1 Reader • 434 pages

Fahrenheit 451

ByRay Bradbury

1953 • 3,384 Readers • 227 pages • 3.9

Going Postal

#33 of 41 in Discworld

ByTerry Pratchett

2004 • 448 Readers • 422 pages • 4.4

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 5 in Time Quintet

A Wrinkle in Time

ByMadeleine L'Engle

1962 • 1,310 Readers • 247 pages • 3.8

Proofiness

ByCharles Seife

2010 • 7 Readers • 320 pages • 2.9

The filter bubble

The Filter Bubble

ByEli Pariser

14 Readers • 3.7

Don't Know Much About the Universe

Don't Know Much About

Don't Know Much About The Universe: Everything You Need to Know About the Cosmos but Never Learned

ByKenneth C. Davis

2001 • 4 Readers • 384 pages

God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

ByChristopher Hitchens

2007 • 207 Readers • 307 pages • 3.9

Rulebook for Arguments

A Rulebook for Arguments

ByAnthony Weston

2018 • 16 Readers • 1,856 pages • 3.5

Rocket Girl

ByGeorge D. Morgan

The Art of Happiness

The Art of Happiness

ByDalai Lama XIV,Howard C. Cutler

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

BySherry Turkle

2011 • 35 Readers • 400 pages • 3.2

iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us

iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us

ByLarry D. Rosen

Howard Zinn on History

Howard Zinn on History

ByHoward Zinn

2000 • 1 Reader • 4

The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World

The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World

ByRoy MacLeod

The Vanished Library

The Vanished Library

ByLuciano Canfora