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The 70 Best Science Books You Need to Read in 2021

  • December 19, 2021
  • 69 Books
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  • sciencefocus.com

Well-researched, peer-reviewed discoveries fuel both Science and Science Fiction as this list rounds up the best science books you need to read in 2021.

Shelf
Explaining Humans
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
The Little Book of Cosmology
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
Drugs without the hot air
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Cosmic Clouds 3-D

A Perfect Planet
The Gynae Geek
Spoon-Fed
Horizon
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What Have I Done?

Some Assembly Required
Stephen Hawking
Is Free Speech Racist?
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Life Changing

The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Superheavy
Anatomicum
The Weil Conjectures
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Infinite Wonder

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Dictionary of Dinosaurs

Apollo
Ocean
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 28
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The Science of Sin

Endure
Inventing Ourselves
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Totally Random
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Wonders

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Nodding Off
The Lost Words
The Angry Chef
Patient H69
Anatomy
To Be a Machine
Out of Nothing
Ask an Astronaut
Gastrophysics
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Graphic Science - Seven Journeys of Discovery
Beyond Infinity
Animals among Us
Only Connect
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Mysteries of the Quantum Universe

Swearing Is Good for You
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
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The Motherhood Complex

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Be Who You Want

Handmade
Always On
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Foodology

The Science of Can and Can't
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Something Deeply Hidden
Happy Brain
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Testosterone Rex
Project Hail Mary