Top Science Books

The top 24 books in this category, curated and ranked.

Updated April 1, 2026
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Rank Book
#1 Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
#2 On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
#3 A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
#4 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
#5 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
by Isaac Newton
#6 The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
#7 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
#8 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
#9 Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
#10 Comet
by Carl Sagan
#11 A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
#12 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
by Charles Darwin
#13 The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
by Steven Pinker
#14 The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
#15 The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
#16 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
#17 Pale Blue Dot
by Carl Sagan
#18 A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
#19 The Art of Computer Programming
by Donald Knuth
#20 The Left Hand of the Electron
by Isaac Asimov
#21 Factfulness
by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
#22 The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
#23 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
by Isaac Newton
#24 The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin