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The 70 Best Science Books You Need to Read in 2021

Well-researched, peer-reviewed discoveries fuel both Science and Science Fiction as this list rounds up the best science books you need to read in 2021.

Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

2017 • 10 Readers • 288 pages 4.5

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town

2020 • 51 Readers 3.5

Always On

Always On
ByRory Cellan-Jones

2021 • 7 Readers • 304 pages 4.5

Anatomicum

Anatomicum
ByJennifer Z. Paxton

2019 • 4 Readers • 112 pages

Anatomy

Anatomy
ByJean-Claude Druvert

2017 • 2 Readers

Animals among Us

Animals among Us
ByJohn Bradshaw

2018 • 4 Readers • 384 pages

A Perfect Planet

A Perfect Planet
ByHuw Cordey

2020 • 3 Readers • 324 pages

Apollo

Apollo
ByMatt Fitch,Chris Baker

2018 • 4 Readers • 176 pages 2

Ask an Astronaut

Ask an Astronaut
ByTim Peake

2017 • 12 Readers • 247 pages 4.6

Beyond Infinity

Beyond Infinity
ByEugenia Cheng

2017 • 8 Readers • 204 pages 2

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

2018 • 214 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

2017 • 26 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

2020 • 72 Readers • 599 pages 4.2

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Cosmic Clouds 3-D: Where Stars Are Born
ByDavid J Eicher,Brian May

2020 • 4 Readers • 192 pages

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
BySamantha Cristoforetti

2020 • 7 Readers • 400 pages 5

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Dictionary of Dinosaurs
ByDr. Matthew G. Baron(Editor),Dieter Braun(Illustrator)

4 Readers

Drugs without the hot air

2012 • 4 Readers • 448 pages

Endure

Endure
ByAlex Hutchinson

2018 • 48 Readers • 336 pages 4.2

Explaining Humans

Explaining Humans
ByCamilla Pang

2020 • 20 Readers • 256 pages 3.5

Gastrophysics

Gastrophysics
ByCharles Spence

2017 • 6 Readers • 336 pages 3

Graphic Science - Seven Journeys of Discovery

2017 • 3 Readers • 263 pages

Handmade

Handmade
ByAnna Ploszajski

2021 • 7 Readers • 320 pages 5

Happy Brain

Happy Brain
ByDean Burnett

2018 • 8 Readers • 352 pages

Horizon

Horizon
ByBarry Lopez

2019 • 17 Readers • 592 pages 4.7

How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

2020 • 63 Readers • 240 pages 3.7

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

2018 • 127 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

2017 • 99 Readers • 226 pages 4.1

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Infinite Wonder
ByScott Kelly

3 Readers • 320 pages

Inventing Ourselves

Inventing Ourselves
BySarah-Jayne Blakemore

2016 • 6 Readers • 256 pages 3

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

2019 • 630 Readers • 432 pages 4.3

Is Free Speech Racist?

2020 • 4 Readers • 144 pages

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Life Changing
ByHelen Pilcher

2020 • 4 Readers • 384 pages

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Mysteries of the Quantum Universe
ByThibault Damour,Mathieu Burniat,+1 more

2016 • 7 Readers 3

Nodding Off

Nodding Off
ByAlice Gregory

2018 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

Notes on a Nervous Planet

2018 • 167 Readers • 239 pages 3.9

Ocean

Ocean
ByHélène Druvert

2018 • 3 Readers

Only Connect

Only Connect
ByJack Waley-Cohen

2019 • 4 Readers • 464 pages

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

2016 • 158 Readers • 272 pages 3.7

Out of Nothing

Out of Nothing
ByDavid Blandy

2017 • 9 Readers • 253 pages 2.7

Patient H69

Patient H69
ByVanessa Potter

2017 • 3 Readers • 288 pages

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 3,153 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

2021 • 7 Readers • 480 pages 5

Some Assembly Required

2021 • 25 Readers • 288 pages 4.3

Something Deeply Hidden

2019 • 58 Readers • 347 pages 3.8

Spoon-Fed

Spoon-Fed
ByTim Spector

2020 • 13 Readers • 284 pages 4.3

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking
ByLeonard Mlodinow

2020 • 5 Readers • 240 pages

Superheavy

Superheavy
ByKit Chapman

2019 • 14 Readers • 304 pages 4

Superior: The Return of Race Science

2019 • 37 Readers • 258 pages 4.5

Swearing Is Good for You

2017 • 5 Readers • 288 pages

Testosterone Rex

Testosterone Rex
ByCordelia Fine

2017 • 9 Readers • 272 pages 4

The Angry Chef

The Angry Chef
ByAnthony Warner

2017 • 7 Readers • 326 pages

The Gynae Geek

The Gynae Geek
ByAnita Mitra

2019 • 4 Readers • 288 pages

The Little Book of Cosmology

2020 • 8 Readers • 152 pages 3.5

The Lost Words

The Lost Words
ByRobert Macfarlane

2017 • 23 Readers • 112 pages 3.8

The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space

2019 • 4 Readers • 468 pages

The Science of Can and Can't

2021 • 9 Readers • 272 pages 5

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The Science of Sin
ByJack Lewis

2018 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

2019 • 179 Readers • 386 pages 3.9

The Weil Conjectures

The Weil Conjectures
ByKaren Olsson

2019 • 3 Readers • 224 pages

To Be a Machine

To Be a Machine
ByMark O'Connell

2017 • 14 Readers • 256 pages 3.5

Totally Random

Totally Random
ByTanya Bub,Jeffrey Bub

2018 • 4 Readers • 256 pages 5

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

2020 • 10 Readers • 208 pages 4

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What Have I Done?
ByLaura Dockrill

2020 • 6 Readers • 352 pages 5

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 28

2018 • 3 Readers • 160 pages

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

2016 • 24 Readers • 127 pages 4.3