Datasets of hard science disciplines
| Hard Science books | Author | Year | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far: Why Are We Here? | Lawrence M. Krauss | 2017 | Atria Books |
| The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself | Sean Carrol | 2016 | Dutton | |
| Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe | Lee Smolin | 2014 | Marine Books | |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan | 1983 | Time Warner Books | |
| The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and Deep Laws of the Cosmos | Brian Greene | 2011 | Knopf | |
| The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries and the Future of the Cosmos | John Brockman | 2014 | Harper Perennial | |
| Biology | The Selfish Genes | Richard Dawkins | 1976/2016 | Oxford University Press |
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky | 2017 | Penguin Press | |
| She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer | 2018 | Dutton | |
| Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters | Matt Ridley | 1999 | Harper Perennial | |
| Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life | Nick Lane | 2006 | Oxford University Press | |
| The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease | Daniel E. Liberman | 2013 | Vintage | |
| Chemistry | Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World | Mark Miodownik | 2015 | Marine Books |
| The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | Sam Kean | 2011 | Back Bay Books | |
| Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History | Jay Burreson & Penny Le Couteur | 2004 | Jeremy P Tarcher | |
| Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teachers Wouldn’t Tell You | Steven Farmer | 2017 | Wiley | |
| Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry | Roald Hoffmann | 2012 | Oxford University Press | |
| The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genuis, A Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler | Thomas Hager | 2008 | Crown | |
| Hard Science books | Author | Year | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | Lawrence M. Krauss | 2017 | Atria Books | |
| Sean Carrol | 2016 | Dutton | ||
| Lee Smolin | 2014 | Marine Books | ||
| Carl Sagan | 1983 | Time Warner Books | ||
| Brian Greene | 2011 | Knopf | ||
| John Brockman | 2014 | Harper Perennial | ||
| Biology | Richard Dawkins | 1976/2016 | Oxford University Press | |
| Robert M. Sapolsky | 2017 | Penguin Press | ||
| Carl Zimmer | 2018 | Dutton | ||
| Matt Ridley | 1999 | Harper Perennial | ||
| Nick Lane | 2006 | Oxford University Press | ||
| Daniel E. Liberman | 2013 | Vintage | ||
| Chemistry | Mark Miodownik | 2015 | Marine Books | |
| Sam Kean | 2011 | Back Bay Books | ||
| Jay Burreson & Penny Le Couteur | 2004 | Jeremy P Tarcher | ||
| Steven Farmer | 2017 | Wiley | ||
| Roald Hoffmann | 2012 | Oxford University Press | ||
| Thomas Hager | 2008 | Crown | ||
Source(s): Appendix by author
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