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#1 ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the laws that govern the universe.
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#2 SAPIENS
Yuval Noah Harari
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
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#4 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
Rebecca Skloot
The story of a woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951. Originally published in 2010 and the basis of the HBO movie.
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#5 WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
Paul Kalanithi
A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
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#6 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
Daniel Kahneman
The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices.
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#7 HIDDEN FIGURES
Margot Lee Shetterly
The story of the black women mathematicians at then-segregated NASA and its precursor. The basis of the movie.
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#8 THE POWER OF HABIT
Charles Duhigg
An examination of the science behind habits — how we form them and break them.
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#9 QUIET
Susan Cain
Introverts, approximately one-third of the population, are undervalued in American society.
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#10 ON TRAILS
Robert Moor
How trails help us to understand ourselves, by an avid hiker who spent seven years walking them all over the world.
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