8 must-read biology books like Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution by Adrian Lister

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Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution

By: Adrian Lister

4.11

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Reveals how Darwin's study of fossils shaped his scientific thinking and led to his development of …

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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

By: Neil Shubin

4.03

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • evolution
  • natural history
  • palaeontology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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2. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World

By: Robert Lacey , Danny Danziger

3.87

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious"

-Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World

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3. The Map That Changed the World

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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4. The Lost World

By: Michael Crichton

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary d… read more

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5. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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6. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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7. The Double Helix

By: James D. Watson

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutio… read more

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  • biology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin , Janet Browne , Michael Neve

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

s/t: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches When the Beaglesailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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9. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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11. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

By: Candice Millard

4.24

Format: None pages,

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more

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12. The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton And The Discovery Of Earth's Antiquity

By: None

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

There are three men whose contributions helped free science from the straitjacket of theology. Two … read more

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13. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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14. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winnin… read more

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15. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership … read more

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16. Honey Girl

By: Morgan Rogers

3.67

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a gir… read more

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"Who else can understand loneliness if not someone who sits in solitude all their own?"

-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

"Maybe Plato knew something we didn't. Or maybe the gods did, when they split us in half and left us to reclaim our missing fragments."

-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

"The sea isn't inherently supernatural, or even scary. But it holds many unknowns. Sometimes unknowns are the scariest things of all, aren't they?"

-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

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17. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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18. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

By: Jon Meacham

4.04

Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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19. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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20. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

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21. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

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  • biology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

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22. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Cover of Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

23. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. Spell Bound

By: F.T. Lukens

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in t… read more

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"Sometimes a family was a mischievous magical boss, her magical rival turned friend, a magical girl who used to be a babysitter and now was like an older sister, and the person you didn't understand i…"

-F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

Cover of Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson

26. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

By: Keith Thomson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

27. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy by Alexander   Rose

28. The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

By: Alexander Rose

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confed… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife

29. The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

By: Christopher Skaife

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. … read more

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  • history
  • nature
Cover of Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution by Adrian Lister

30. Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution

By: Adrian Lister

4.11

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Reveals how Darwin's study of fossils shaped his scientific thinking and led to his development of … read more

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17 must-read history books like Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution by Adrian Lister

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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

4.03

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Robert Lacey , Danny Danziger

3.87

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The Map That Changed the World

Simon Winchester

2.67

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

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