9 must-read science books like What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees by Stephen Buchmann

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What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

By: Stephen Buchmann

4.14

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture #10)

By: Iain M. Banks

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

They are, truly, probably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set … read more

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2. Six Wakes

By: Mur Lafferty

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -… read more

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3. Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

By: James McBride

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the "real" James Brown after receiving a… read more

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4. Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

By: Shea Serrano , Reggie Miller , Arturo Torres

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Timesbestseller Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jo… read more

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5. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and re… read more

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6. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation

By: Alan Lew

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

There are moments in life when one is caught utterly unprepared. Drawing on both his rabbinical tra… read more

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7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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8. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

By: Megan Mullally

3.65

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"You know what? I've never had any money, and I've always lived like a king."

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

"Get out of your house. Get off of your phone. Then go and participate in things that thrill you."

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

"It may seem a little obvious that Megan would feel that in her music or that I would feel it in woodworking, but there are so many domestic places, so many little ways that you can make your existenc…"

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

"I hate it, how high-stakes the fashion aspect of it has become. A long time ago, Janeane Garofalo wore cutoffs and a T-shirt to an awards show, and that’s always been my gold standard. I wish everyon…"

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

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9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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10. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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11. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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12. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

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  • nature
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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13. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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15. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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16. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

By: Ben Smith

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Mind of a Bee

By: Lars Chittka

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"

-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee

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18. Buster: A Dog

By: George Pelecanos

3.87

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog's life―from the dog's perspective―on t… read more

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19. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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20. My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves

By: Kristen Chenoweth

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This empowering collection of inspirational essays from some of today’s most powerful women in medi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

By: Stephen Buchmann

4.14

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

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