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ScienceNews.org Best Books of the Year
65 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviewsFrom the archive
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviewsFrom the archive
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviews3 links confirmed active
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviews3 links confirmed active
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviews8 links confirmed active
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviews6 links confirmed active
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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View book & interviews ↗24 author interviews5 links confirmed active
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviews2 links confirmed active
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
Caesar’s Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around US
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviewsFrom the archive
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviews3 links confirmed active
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews1 links confirmed active
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviews4 links confirmed active
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviewsFrom the archive
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
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View book & interviews ↗12 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
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View book & interviews ↗18 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World
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View book & interviews ↗14 author interviewsFrom the archive
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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View book & interviews ↗12 author interviews8 links confirmed active
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviewsFrom the archive
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviewsFrom the archive
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviewsFrom the archive
Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviewsFrom the archive
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe
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View book & interviews ↗9 author interviews3 links confirmed active
We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviewsFrom the archive
A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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View book & interviews ↗13 author interviewsFrom the archive
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviews3 links confirmed active
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviews7 links confirmed active
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviewsFrom the archive
Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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View book & interviews ↗9 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviews8 links confirmed active
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviewsFrom the archive
Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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View book & interviews ↗12 author interviewsFrom the archive
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
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View book & interviews ↗5 author interviewsFrom the archive
Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
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View book & interviews ↗10 author interviews5 links confirmed active
Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviewsFrom the archive
Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews3 links confirmed active
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
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View book & interviews ↗12 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews1 links confirmed active
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviewsFrom the archive
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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View book & interviews ↗16 author interviews7 links confirmed active
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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View book & interviews ↗18 author interviews10 links confirmed active
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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View book & interviews ↗11 author interviews6 links confirmed active
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviewsFrom the archive
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviewsFrom the archive
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews2 links confirmed active
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviewsFrom the archive
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World’s Most Famous Human Fossils
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews1 links confirmed active