Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/49013470-brit-cheung">Brit Cheung</a> (17 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brit Cheung (17 Lists)

The City in History by Lewis Mumford

Top Urban Planning Books of All Time

115 books — 157 voters

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,066 books — 1,510 voters

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

The Code Book by Simon Singh

Best Books About Mathematics

447 books — 664 voters

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

137 books — 35 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,222 books — 8,061 voters

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,830 books — 3,587 voters

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Best Nature Books

1,151 books — 764 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Four Fish by Paul Greenberg

Waking Up to the Earth and Sky

213 books — 37 voters

Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenburg

Conservation and Animal Science

154 books — 54 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

766 books — 1,133 voters

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

The Book of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

DNA by James D. Watson

Best Books on Evolution...

267 books — 216 voters

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Best Science Fiction Anthologies/Collections

530 books — 253 voters

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Best WWII Fiction and Biography

696 books — 580 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,186 books — 117,800 voters

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Best Sustainability Nonfiction

398 books — 294 voters

What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Female Scientists

170 books — 105 voters

The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner

Best Christian Historical Fiction

1,583 books — 1,650 voters