This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Science
- Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet: A Report to the Club of Rome by Ugo Bardi
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
- The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
- Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
- The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
- The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution by Carol Ann Bassett
- Deep Time:: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by Gregory Benford
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
- In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin