Books Recommended by Scientists

Books scientists recommend most

1. 
   What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
   Donovan Moore, Jocelyn Bell Burnell
   Recommended by Sara Seager, Priyamvada Natarajan +1 more
2. 
   Cosmology’s Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe
   P. J. E. Peebles
   Recommended by Janna Levin, Priyamvada Natarajan +1 more
3. 
   Cosmology
   Daniel Baumann
   Recommended by Sean Carroll, Katie Mack +1 more
4. 
   Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
   Sean Carroll
   Recommended by Janna Levin, Katie Mack +1 more
5. 
   Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
   Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
   Recommended by Grady Booch, Kevin Folta +1 more
6. 
   Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
   Heino Falcke
   Recommended by Brian Schmidt, Martin Rees
7. 
   Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
   Nick Bostrom
   Recommended by Sam Harris, Martin Rees
8. 
   The Expanse Hardcover Boxed Set: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate: Now a Prime Original Series
   James S. A. Corey
   Recommended by John Carmack, Angela Rasmussen
9. 
   The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
   Ray Kurzweil
   Recommended by Ray Kurzweil, Vint Cerf
10. 
    What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Randall Munroe
    Recommended by Phil Plait, Adam Rutherford
11. 
    Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
    Stuart Russell
    Recommended by Sam Harris, Lord Martin Rees
12. 
    Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
    Steven Pinker
    Recommended by Dilip Soman, Kirk Borne
13. 
    Project Hail Mary: A Novel
    Andy Weir
    Recommended by Tim Peake, Peter Gleick
14. 
    The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow
    Sarah Brown PhD
    Recommended by Sean Carroll, Mikel Delgado
15. 
    Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
    Ron Cowen
    Recommended by John Mather, David Spergel
16. 
    The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter (Science Essentials)
    Katherine Freese
    Recommended by Brian Schmidt, David Spergel
17. 
    At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials, 31)
    Dan Hooper
    Recommended by Sean Carroll, Sophia Gadnasr
18. 
    The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity: A Journey to Discover Black Holes
    Luciano Rezzolla
    Recommended by Avi Loeb, Martin Rees
19. 
    The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
    Luke A. Barnes, Geraint F. Lewis
    Recommended by Sean Carroll, Priyamvada Natarajan
20. 
    The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It
    Alanna Mitchell
    Recommended by Sean Carroll, Deborah Blum
21. 
    Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
    Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    Recommended by Ray Kurzweil, Lord Martin Rees
22. 
    Machine Learning with Python Cookbook: Practical Solutions from Preprocessing to Deep Learning
    Chris Albon
    Recommended by DJ Patil, Kirk Borne
23. 
    Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD
    Jeremy Howard, Sylvain Gugger
    Recommended by Sebastian Ruder, Kirk Borne
24. 
    The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers (Gift for Astronomy and Popular Science Lovers)
    Emily Levesque
    Recommended by Phil Plait, Sara Seager

The scientists

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Mayim Bialik

PhD, Neuroscientist, and Actor

2 book recommendations

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium

13 book recommendations

Brené Brown

Research Professor, University of Houston

10 book recommendations

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Avi Loeb

Harvard University; author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

3 book recommendations

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Steve Wozniak

Cofounder, Apple Computer and Chief Scientist, Prime Data

4 book recommendations

Sam Harris

Author, Neuroscientist, and Host of the Making Sense Podcast

23 book recommendations

Ray Kurzweil

Chief AI Officer at Beyond Imagination, Futurist and Author

7 book recommendations

Linus Torvalds

Computer Scientist, Linux kernel Architect

2 book recommendations

John Carmack

Founder & CEO of Keen Technologies

12 book recommendations

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Douglas Smith

Senior Wildlife Biologist and Project Leader for the Yellowstone Gray Wolf Restoration Project

2 book recommendations

Sean Carroll

Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University

22 book recommendations

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Bruce Lipton

PhD, cell biologist and bestselling author of The Biology of Belief

2 book recommendations

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