list of the 50 most popular books of science and nature
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Double Helix by James D. Watson
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard Cytowic
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
- Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through the Hidden Dimensions of the Universe by Michio Kaku
- Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Travel, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings and the Hidden Laws of Nature by Brian Greene
- The Physics of Everyday Things by Raymond A. Serway
- The Chemistry of Everyday Things by Peter Atkins
- Biology for Dummies by Rene Fester Kratz
- Physics for Dummies by Steven Holzner
- Chemistry for Dummies by John T. Moore
- The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
- The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
- The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- The Infinite Book by John D. Barrow
- What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
- The Physicists’ View of Nature by Amit Goswami
- The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Emerges from the Physical World by Amit Goswami
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
- The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
- The Holographic Universe by Leonard Susskindf