12 Best science books like Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe by Sean Carroll

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Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe

By: Sean Carroll

4.11

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

There's more to the universe than meets the eye—a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discov…

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1. Chaos: Making a New Science

By: James Gleick

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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2. The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

By: Walter Mosley , Rex Stout

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaire business men turns… read more

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"Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish."

-Walter Mosley, The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

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3. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more

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"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

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4. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her … read more

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5. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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6. The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

By: Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the … read more

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  • astronomy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
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7. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

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8. The Red Box (Nero Wolfe, #4)

By: Rex Stout

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A lovely woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended theatrical producer Llewellyn Frost depend… read more

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9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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10. Some Buried Caesar (Nero Wolfe, #6)

By: Rex Stout , Diane Mott Davidson

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

Will a championship bull be served as barbecue or preserved for its lineage? Before this can be res… read more

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11. Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

By: Rex Stout

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The guest at a gathering of the greatest chefs in the world, Nero Wolfe must practice his own trade… read more

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12. Ancient Greek Civilization

By: Jeremy McInerney

3.50

Format: None pages,

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13. The Historical Jesus (Great Courses, #643)

By: Bart D. Ehrman

2.75

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was he like? For more than 2,000 years, people and groups of varyin… read more

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14. Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation

By: Unknown , None

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Enuma Elish is one of the most important sources which provides an understanding of the Babylon… read more

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15. The Waning of the Middle Ages

By: Johan Huizinga

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

This classic study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during the fourteenth an… read more

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16. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)

By: Agatha Christie

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train to the Mediterranean -- ingredients… read more

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17. Where There's a Will (Nero Wolfe, #8)

By: Rex Stout , Dean Koontz

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne--who left the bulk of his es… read more

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18. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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19. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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20. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #28)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Audio CD

Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger, but Superinte… read more

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21. Van Gogh: The Life

By: Steven Naifeh

4.18

Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"

-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life

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22. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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23. 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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  • nonfiction
  • 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

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24. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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25. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait

26. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

By: Philip Plait

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more

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  • astronomy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
Cover of The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know by Don Lincoln

27. The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know

By: Don Lincoln

4.25

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

How do we know the universe is 13.8 billion years old? How do we know the speed of light is 299,792… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
Cover of Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science by Robert M. Sapolsky

28. Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.34

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Understanding our humanity-the very essence of who we are and how we live our lives-is one of the d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates by John Hawks

29. The Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates

By: John Hawks

4.03

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

Lectures, Professor John Hawks combine fossil and genetic information to test hypotheses about huma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe by Sean Carroll

30. Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe

By: Sean Carroll

4.11

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

There's more to the universe than meets the eye—a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discov… read more

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Cover of Chaos (The Great Courses, #1333) by Steven H. Strogatz

31. Chaos (The Great Courses, #1333)

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.25

Format: None pages, Audiobook

How can something called chaos theory help you understand an orderly world? What practical things m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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James Gleick

4.04

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Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw

4.06

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Dave Cullen

4.29

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4.18

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Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

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4.13

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Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

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Mo Gawdat

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