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This list is incomplete and being updated. It is ordered by date of release in US. If a 2024 popular science book is missing, give shout on (X) twitter or other social medias @sciencegoddess. No academic texts, scifi or psuedoscience. Thx
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2024
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Jan 2Erika HowsareThe Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighborshttps://amzn.to/3S40FSa
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Jan 9Scott CarneyDream: The Art and Science of Slumberhttps://amzn.to/3U4JJN9
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Donald McNeilThe Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemicshttps://amzn.to/3vBRXlm
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Hannah RitchieNot the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planethttps://amzn.to/41XmK8u
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Jan 16Rebecca BoyleOur Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Arehttps://amzn.to/3Ll2XJa
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Manjula MartinThe Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural Historyhttps://amzn.to/41OtW6W
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Nell GreenfieldBoyceTransient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Lifehttps://amzn.to/4aFZfoq
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Benjamin BreenTripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Sciencehttps://amzn.to/41NBV4c
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Paul HalpernThe Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universeshttps://amzn.to/47txj4q
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John DownerRational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologieshttps://amzn.to/49TWCym
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Joel MyersInvisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped Historyhttps://amzn.to/3wVQdUU
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Jan 18Dominic CouzensThe Hidden Life of Garden Birds: The unseen drama behind everyday survivalhttps://amzn.to/4aICEaI
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Jan 23Uche BlackstockLegacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicinehttps://amzn.to/3NKSKaK
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Norman FarbBetter in Every Sense: How the New Science of Sensation Can Help You Reclaim Your Lifehttps://amzn.to/3RJzJWA
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Jim MorrisThe Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workershttps://amzn.to/3TNkUFk
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Martha NussbaumJustice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibilityhttps://amzn.to/47Nqyuh
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Lyle LewisRacing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanishhttps://amzn.to/3u2nDAe
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Jan 31Jessica SerraThe Beast Within: Humans as Animalshttps://amzn.to/47gGFjK
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Yara AsiHow War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Healthhttps://amzn.to/3votgsN
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Ernest ScheyderThe War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Liveshttps://amzn.to/3NRQOwp
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Bruce PiaseckiWealth and Climate Competitiveness: The New Narrative on Business and Societyhttps://amzn.to/3NOY8ZE
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Feb 1Daniel FreemanParanoia: A Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety
https://www.amazon.com/Paranoia-Journey-Extreme-Mistrust-Anxiety-ebook/dp/B0CBNXR5RF
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Mark Z. JacobsonNo Miracles Neededhttps://amzn.to/48SWrTI
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Mike DugganAll Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Ushttps://amzn.to/3ViRmjr
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Feb 6Gísli PálssonThe Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinctionhttps://amzn.to/47lIc8e
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Ludovic SlimakTHE NAKED NEANDERTHAL: A New Understanding of the Human Creaturehttps://amzn.to/3NX1XMl
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Chris Ferrie, Wade David Fairclough, Byrne LaGinestra
42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not To)https://amzn.to/3w8weBX
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Sarah ScolesCountdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weaponshttps://amzn.to/49rQbC8
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Tim Flannery, Emma FlanneryBig Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Livedhttps://amzn.to/496If9N
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Feb 13Troy TassierThe Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreakshttps://amzn.to/47omxfN
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Paul KimmelThe Body's Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatmentshttps://amzn.to/3ROl1h0
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Liz Heineke
She Can STEM: 50 Trailblazing Women in Science from Ancient History to Today – Includes hands-on activities exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
https://amzn.to/3UnwJCf
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Stanley GehrtCoyotes Among Us: Secrets of the City’s Top Predatorhttps://amzn.to/43gDMyS
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Ajay Singh ChaudharyThe Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning Worldhttps://amzn.to/4aaMn8I
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Feb 20Cutter WoodEarthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrationshttps://amzn.to/3vZNPsi
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Miriam DarlingtonOtter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural Worldhttps://amzn.to/3H60Ztn
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Chris Balakrishnan, Matt WasowskiHow to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nitehttps://amzn.to/3ROUU9R
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Trish O'KaneBirding to Change the World: A Memoirhttps://amzn.to/3vwQyfO
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Henrike LangEclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Artshttps://amzn.to/3H6tBCT
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Charan RanganathWhy We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Mattershttps://amzn.to/3HTttqD
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Heather MontgomerySick!: The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germshttps://amzn.to/3I5iN8I
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Robert ZubrinThe New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planethttps://amzn.to/3VjbTnT
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Orrin H. Pilkey +Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Changehttps://amzn.to/4ccTIq1
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Feb 27Kara SwisherBurn Book: A Tech Love Storyhttps://amzn.to/42CXCo0
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A. Thomas ColeRestoring the Pitchfork Ranch: How Healing a Southwest Oasis Holds Promise for Our Endangered Landhttps://amzn.to/49PKjmP
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Lee MorganFour Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Storyhttps://amzn.to/3vc3Bnc
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Emma Frances BloomfieldScience v. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicatorshttps://amzn.to/3IBehPq
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Mar 1Dali YangWuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Controlhttps://amzn.to/3HaV8Ty
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Mar 5Mikel Delgago Play with your Cat!https://amzn.to/3TP1Rdw
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Gregory Mone, Daniela RusThe Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robotshttps://amzn.to/3NW2Wg1
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Samuel WilkinsonPurpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existencehttps://amzn.to/4aNLKmr
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Emily CalandrelliStay Curious and Keep Exploring: Next Level: 50 Bigger, Bolder Science Experiments to Do with the Whole Familyhttps://amzn.to/3ODlfHd
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Alison Davies (Author), Sarah WildlingFloral Folklore: The Forgotten Tales Behind Nature’s Most Enchanting Plantshttps://amzn.to/3PmFau2
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Sarah EdwardsThe Ethnobotanical: A world tour of indigenous plant knowledgehttps://amzn.to/3wNN4Gw
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Kevin KochMidwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartlandhttps://amzn.to/3ViCtNV
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Wayne KalayjianSaving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolutionhttps://amzn.to/3PrMFzZ
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Mar 12Emily RaboteauLessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”https://amzn.to/3IAOXZS
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Daniel LewisTwelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Futurehttps://amzn.to/3PnWHCd
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Jessica J. LeeDispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonginghttps://amzn.to/4aargDu
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Arielle JohnsonFlavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavorhttps://amzn.to/43iveHW
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Mar 14Jenny KleemanThe Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Life-Search-Worth-Decides-ebook/dp/B0C8P3FGG4
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Mar 19Venki RamakrishnanWhy We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/why-we-die-venki-ramakrishnan?variant=41074404098082
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Gerard ToalOceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophehttps://amzn.to/41IY5nQ
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Dante LaurettaThe Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar Systemhttps://amzn.to/47pLyHj
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David ToomeyKingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itselfhttps://amzn.to/3NPg8Dp
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Sy MontgomerySecrets of the Octopushttps://amzn.to/3x0uJGh
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Mar 26Annie JacobsenNuclear War: A Scenariohttps://amzn.to/3S5uvF1
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Harry CliffSpace Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universehttps://amzn.to/3S2zzLo
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Andrea DebbinkPocket Nature: Flower Finding: Delight in the Splendor of Wild Bloomshttps://amzn.to/48ZxeWG
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Andreas Tjernshaugen, Lucy Moffatt (Translator)
Finding the Fox: Encounters With an Enigmatic Animalhttps://amzn.to/3PmK6iy
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Guru MahavanWicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better Worldhttps://amzn.to/49SEjd0
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Abrahm LustgartenON THE MOVE: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of Americahttps://amzn.to/3vzcesa
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Ashley TaylorPrehistoric Worlds: Stomp Into the Epic Lands Ruled by Dinosaurshttps://amzn.to/43uAzMg
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Saul Permetter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun
Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsensehttps://amzn.to/4cxPCJc
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Mar 28Yasmin AliPower Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable Energy
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Up-Engineers-Adventures-Sustainable-ebook/dp/B0CBPTV55X
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Eva AmsenHey, There's Science in This: Essays About Science in Unexpected Placeshttps://amzn.to/43DUUio
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April 1Lavinia GreenlawThe Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571355631-the-vast-extent/
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April 2Claudia de RhamThe Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravityhttps://amzn.to/3twZPUT
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Lydia MilletWe Loved It All: A Memory of Lifehttps://amzn.to/47lj15Q
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Ethan MollickCo-Intelligence: Living and Working with AIhttps://amzn.to/3RHdwsl
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Jonathan VigliottiBefore It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town Americahttps://amzn.to/48G6lY9
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Megan KimbleCity Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highwayshttps://amzn.to/3vtMU6q
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Edward HumesTotal Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our Worldhttps://amzn.to/3IJR5yx
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Dr. Rae Wynn-GrantWild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed Worldhttps://amzn.to/3HozOKC
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Jeff OllertonBirds and Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationshiphttps://amzn.to/49VEZhU
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Andre OrmerodHow the Rose Got Its Thorns: And Other Botanical Storieshttps://amzn.to/4crk9Zo
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Christopher Cokinos Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrowhttps://amzn.to/3IHPc5g
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(fall in US) 4/4/2024Monty LymanThe Immune Mind: The new science of health
https://www.amazon.com/Immune-Mind-new-science-health-ebook/dp/B0CB5LN4LL
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April 9Jason RobertsEvery Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Lifehttps://amzn.to/3NQ9kFg
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Sabrina SholtsThe Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefshttps://amzn.to/3NNU2RD
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Clayton Page AldernThe Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brainshttps://amzn.to/3vgZCFA
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Kate SchapiraLessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered Worldhttps://amzn.to/3tCy8Kh
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Amanda MontellThe Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationalityhttps://amzn.to/3ODkOwz