Timeless Science
Scientific books that have remained essential reading long after the research that spawned them. Ideas robust enough to survive paradigm shifts.
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
15k
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
13k
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
10k
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
8.6k
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
8.1k
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
7.1k
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
6.5k
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
6.3k
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
6.3k
One Two Three . . . Infinity
George Gamow
5.7k
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
5.7k
Blueprint
Nicholas A. Christakis
5.7k
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts et al.
4.9k
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
4.5k
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
4.4k
Genome
Matt Ridley
4.2k
Statistical Models
David Freedman
4.2k
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
4.2k
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.2k
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
4.2k
Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
4.0k
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
3.9k
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
3.7k
Profiles of the Future
Arthur C. Clarke
3.6k
Of Wolves and Men
Barry Holstun Lopez
3.4k
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
3.3k
The Planiverse
A. K. Dewdney
3.3k
Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
3.2k
The Vital Question
Nick Lane
3.1k
The Evolution of Desire
David Buss
3.0k
Reinforcement Learning
Richard Sutton, Andrew Barto
2.9k
The Five Ages of the Universe
Fred C. Adams
2.9k
Campbell Biology
Unknown
2.8k
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
2.8k
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Christopher Bishop
2.8k
Our Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark
2.8k
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
2.8k
Crisis of Conscience
Tom Mueller
2.8k
Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
2.8k
Physics for Scientists and Engineers Study Guide
Gene Mosca, Todd Ruskell
2.8k