“What are the best Science And Nature books released in 2020?” We looked at 215 of the top Science And Nature books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 20 books, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Science And Nature” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 175+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
Our other Best Of 2020 Articles:
Previous Years: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
All titles have been added to a Bookshop list as well!
Happy Scrolling!
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From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara’s Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring–when
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Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, C
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Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, an
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dre
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Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the “eel question” Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogeth
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Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucial
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Instant New York Times Best-seller “A splendid and invigorating read.” –Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity’s search for purpose. Until the End of Time is Brian Green
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A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and–possibly–even murder. “At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish…c
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A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality. Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues
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Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see–feeding nationalism, fueling hatred, endangering lives, and corroding our discourse on everything f
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.”
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“One of America’s most courageous young journalists” and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity–how do yo
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From ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an “utterly timely” look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it’s a YouTube fad or a political rumor, we say it went viral. But how does virality actually work? In Th
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A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 A Publishers Weekly “Big Indie Book of Fall 2020” A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 A Literary Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2020 A Ralph Lauren Summer Reading Recommendation A Garden & Gun Su
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In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I’ve had an extraordinary life. It’s only
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thous
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A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght’s] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.” –Helen Macdonald, author of H
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A mind-bending journey into the hidden universe of fungi, “one of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you” (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk). “Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing . . . a remarkable work by a remarkable writer, which succeeds in springing l
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Luminous and fascinating journey through science, religion, culture and everything in between.”–Newsweek, “25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020” A tour de force on par with Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari–Booklist (starred review) An historically unprecedented di
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Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nost
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| 21 | A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes | Eric Jay Dolin | Amazon |
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| 22 | Clean: The New Science Of Skin | James Hamblin | NPR |
| Smithsonian | |||
| 23 | Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash | Lamorna Ash | Waterstones |
| The Times | |||
| 24 | English Pastoral | James Rebanks | Waterstones |
| The Times | |||
| 25 | Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | Candace Fleming | Booklist 3 |
| NPR | |||
| 26 | If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future | Jill Lepore | Waterstones |
| Booklist 2 | |||
| 27 | Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind | Peter Godfrey-Smith | Waterstones |
| Five Books | |||
| 28 | Native | Patrick Laurie | Waterstones |
| The Times | |||
| 29 | Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain | Lisa Feldman Barrett | Amazon |
| Barnes & Noble 5 | |||
| 30 | Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics | Leonard Mlodinow | The Guardian |
| The Telegraph | |||
| 31 | Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias | Dr Pragya Agarwal | Waterstones |
| The Telegraph | |||
| 32 | The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another | Ainissa Ramirez | Smithsonian |
| Amazon | |||
| 33 | The Book of Trespass | Nick Hayes | Waterstones |
| The Guardian | |||
| 34 | The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women | Linda Scott | The Guardian |
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| 35 | The End of Everything | Katie Mack | Goodreads |
| Barnes & Noble 5 | |||
| 36 | The Idea of the Brain | Matthew Cobb | Waterstones |
| The Telegraph | |||
| 37 | The Journeys Of Trees: A Story About Forests, People, And The Future | Zach St. George | NPR |
| Amazon | |||
| 38 | The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers | Emily Levesque | Bookpage |
| Amazon | |||
| 39 | The Lost Spells | Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris | Waterstones |
| The Guardian | |||
| 40 | The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention | Simon Baron-Cohen | Amazon |
| Barnes & Noble 4 | |||
| 41 | What is Life?: Understand Biology in Five Steps | Paul Nurse | Waterstones |
| Financial Times 2 | |||
| 42 | 100 Things to See in the Night Sky | Dean Regas | The Wall Street Journal 2 |
| 43 | A Dominant Character | Samanth Subramanian | The Guardian |
| 44 | A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living | Massimo Pigliucci | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 45 | A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future | Perri Klass | Barnes & Noble |
| 46 | A History of the Universe in 21 Stars | Giles Sparrow | Waterstones |
| 47 | A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings | Helen Jukes | Bookpage |
| 48 | A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science | Rita Colwell Sharon Bertsch McGrayne | Amazon |
| 49 | A Perfect Planet | Huw Cordey, Alastair Fothergill | Waterstones |
| 50 | A Series of Fortunate Events | Sean B. Carroll | Waterstones |
| 51 | A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology | Toby A. H. Wilkinson | Amazon |
| 52 | Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture | Eleanor Jones Harvey Hans-Dieter Sues (Preface by) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 53 | Alien Oceans: The Search For Life In The Depths Of Space | Kevin Hand | NPR |
| 54 | All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change | Michael T. Klare | Booklist |
| 55 | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team | Christina Soontornvat | Booklist 3 |
| 56 | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis | Katharine K. Wilkinson (Editor) Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor) | Smithsonian |
| 57 | Antlers of Water | Kathleen Jamie, Jacqueline Bain | Waterstones |
| 58 | Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live | Nicholas A. Christakis | Barnes & Noble |
| 59 | Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier | Jim Ottaviani | Booklist 3 |
| 60 | Back to Nature | Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin | Waterstones |
| 61 | Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace | Carl Safina | Booklist 2 |
| 62 | Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own | Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 63 | Bitter Root | Good men Project | |
| 64 | Black Hole Survival Guide | Janna Levin | The Times 2 |
| 65 | Bones: Inside and Out | Roy A. Meals | Barnes & Noble 5 |
| 66 | Bringing Back the Beaver | Derek Gow | Waterstones |
| 67 | Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain by Tom Fort | The Times | |
| 68 | Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther | Craig Pittman | Booklist 2 |
| 69 | Chosen Ones | Good men Project | |
| 70 | Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case | Anatol Lieven | Financial Times |
| 71 | Condor Comeback | Sy Montgomery | Booklist 3 |
| 72 | Covid-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One | Debora MacKenzie | Financial Times 2 |
| 73 | Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature | Brigit Strawbridge Howard | The Times |
| 74 | Desert Notebooks: A Road Map For The End Of Time | Ben Ehrenreich | NPR |
| 75 | Earth Almanac | Ken Keffer Jeremy Collins (Illustrator) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 76 | Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land | N. Scott Momaday | Barnes & Noble 2 |
| 77 | Envisioning Exoplanets | Michael Carroll Elisa Quintana (Foreword by) | The Wall Street Journal 2 |
| 78 | Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health | The Telegraph | |
| 79 | Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? | Bill McKibben | Booklist |
| 80 | Featherhood | Charlie Gilmour | Waterstones |
| 81 | Feel the Fog | April Pulley Sayre | Booklist 3 |
| 82 | Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History | Paul Farmer | Barnes & Noble |
| 83 | Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy | Alastair Gee | Amazon |
| 84 | Flower | The Wall Street Journal | |
| 85 | Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers | Cheryl Misak | Five Books |
| 86 | Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel | Andrea Grosso Ciponte | Good men Project |
| 87 | Group | Christie Tate | Waterstones |
| 88 | Happiness, a Mystery | Sophie Hannah, Francesca Barrie | Waterstones |
| 89 | Heroic Animals | Clare Balding | Waterstones |
| 90 | His Imperial Majesty | Matthew Oates | Waterstones |
| 91 | Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot | Mikki Kendall | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 92 | Horizon | Barry Lopez | Booklist |
| 93 | Horse Crazy | Sarah Maslin Nir | Bookpage |
| 94 | How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet | Noel Fitzpatrick | Waterstones |
| 95 | How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 96 | How to Hold Animals | Toshimitsu Matsuhashi, Angus Turvill | Waterstones |
| 97 | How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently about Numbers | Tim Harford | The Times 2 |
| 98 | How To Talk To Robots | Tabitha Goldstaub | Waterstones |
| 99 | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure | John Rocco | Booklist 3 |
| 100 | How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You | Katherine D. Kinzler | Amazon |
| 101 | Hubble Legacy | Jim Bell John M. Grunsfeld (Foreword by) | The Wall Street Journal 2 |
| 102 | Human Nature | The Wall Street Journal | |
| 103 | Humankind | Rutger Bregman | Waterstones |
| 104 | In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration | Shane O’Mara | Amazon |
| 105 | Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have | Tatiana Schlossberg | Booklist |
| 106 | Indigo | Ellen Bass | Good men Project |
| 107 | Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us | George Zaidan | The Telegraph |
| 108 | Lakewood: A Novel | Megan Giddings | NPR |
| 109 | Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | Helen Pilcher | The Times 2 |
| 110 | Lives of the Stoics | Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman | Waterstones |
| 111 | Livewired | David Eagleman | Waterstones |
| 112 | Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America | Michael Eric Dyson | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 113 | Losing Earth: A Recent History | Nathaniel Rich | Booklist |
| 114 | Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones | The Times | |
| 115 | Lost Animals | John Whitfield | The Wall Street Journal |
| 116 | Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear | Patrick Boucheron | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 117 | Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity | Sam Harris | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 118 | Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla Saad | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 119 | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | Ijeoma Oluo | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 120 | Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster | Adam Higginbotham | Booklist |
| 121 | Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains | Kerri Arsenault | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 122 | Modern Madness: An Owner’s Manual | Terri Cheney | Barnes & Noble 4 |
| 123 | Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times | Jonathan Sacks | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 124 | My Broken Mariko | Waka Hirako | Good men Project |
| 125 | My Garden World | Monty Don | Waterstones |
| 126 | Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness | Alan Levinovitz | The Times 2 |
| 127 | Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard | Douglas W. Tallamy | Booklist |
| 128 | Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear | Eva Holland | Smithsonian |
| 129 | No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram | Sarah Frier | Goodreads |
| 130 | Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells | Harold McGee | Financial Times 2 |
| 131 | Numb and Number | William Hartston | Waterstones |
| 132 | Olive, Mabel and Me | Andrew Cotter | Waterstones |
| 133 | On the Origin of Evolution | John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin | Waterstones |
| 134 | Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America | Maria Hinojosa | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 135 | Outbreaks and Epidemics | The Guardian | |
| 136 | Outside In | Deborah Underwood | NPR |
| 137 | Poems to See by: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry | Julian Peters | Good men Project |
| 138 | Rootbound | Alice Vincent | Waterstones |
| 139 | Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science | Stuart Ritchie | The Times 2 |
| 140 | Scientists Who Changed History | Victoria Heyworth-Dunne | Booklist 2 |
| 141 | Separated: Inside an American Tragedy | Jacob Soboroff | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 142 | Show Me A Sign | Ann Clare LeZotte | NPR |
| 143 | Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond | Christopher Wanjek | The Telegraph |
| 144 | Stuff You Should Know | Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant | Waterstones |
| 145 | Tarka the Otter | Henry Williamson Charles Tunnicliffe (Illustrator) Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by) & 1 more | The Wall Street Journal |
| 146 | The Accidental Countryside | Stephen Moss | Waterstones |
| 147 | The Almanac | Lia Leendertz | Waterstones |
| 148 | The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age | Steve Olson | Barnes & Noble 5 |
| 149 | The Backyard Birdwatcher’s Bible | Paul Sterry | Barnes & Noble 2 |
| 150 | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir | Michele Harper | Barnes & Noble |
| 151 | The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 | Michio Kaku (Editor) Jaime Green (Editor) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 152 | The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win | Maria Konnikova | Barnes & Noble 4 |
| 153 | The Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson | Five Books |
| 154 | The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan | Amy Alznauer | Booklist 3 |
| 155 | The Carbon Club: How a Network of Influential Climate Sceptics, Politicians and Business Leaders Fought to Control Australia’s Climate Policy | Marian Wilkinson | Financial Times |
| 156 | The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress | Mark Jaccard | Financial Times |
| 157 | The Collectors | The Wall Street Journal | |
| 158 | The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland | Walter Thompson-Hernandez | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 159 | The Consolation of Nature | The Guardian | |
| 160 | The Daily Henry David Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau Laura Dassow Walls (Editor) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 161 | The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More | Dr. Daniel G. Amen | Barnes & Noble 4 |
| 162 | The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis | Christiana Figueres | Goodreads |
| 163 | The Godless Gospel | Julian Baggini | Waterstones |
| 164 | The Gospel of the Eels by Patrik Svensson | The Times | |
| 165 | The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer | Jennet Conant | Amazon |
| 166 | The Human Planet | George Steinmetz Andrew Revkin | The Wall Street Journal |
| 167 | The Ice at the End of the World: Greenland’s Secret Past and Earth’s Perilous Future | Jon Gertner | Booklist |
| 168 | The Language of Butterflies | Wendy Williams | Bookpage |
| 169 | The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate | Martin Puchner | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 170 | The Lazarus Strategy | Dr Norman Lazarus | Waterstones |
| 171 | The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery | Seb Falk | The Times 2 |
| 172 | The Little Book of Humanism | Alice Roberts, Andrew Copson | Waterstones |
| 173 | The Lonely Century | Noreena Hertz | Waterstones |
| 174 | The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution | Joanna Cole | Booklist 3 |
| 175 | The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad | Emily Thomas | Five Books |
| 176 | The Memory Box Book & Wonderfully illustrated Memory Book Grief Journal | Good men Project | |
| 177 | The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle | David Edmonds | Five Books |
| 178 | The Natural Health Service | Isabel Hardman | Waterstones |
| 179 | The Nature of Summer | Jim Crumley | Waterstones |
| 180 | The New Map: Energy, Climate And The Clash Of Nations | Daniel Yergin | NPR |
| 181 | The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move | Sonia Shah | Amazon |
| 182 | The Number Bias | The Telegraph | |
| 183 | The Only Living Girl | Good men Project | |
| 184 | The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 | Mark Honigsbaum | The Times 2 |
| 185 | The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy’s unsung women | Lisa Whiting & Rebecca Buxton | Five Books |
| 186 | The Radium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark | Kate Moore | Booklist 3 |
| 187 | The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook | Miek Zwamborn, Michele Hutchison | Waterstones |
| 188 | The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World | Sarah Stewart Johnson | The Times 2 |
| 189 | The Sky Atlas | Edward Brooke-Hitching | The Wall Street Journal 2 |
| 190 | The Smallest Lights in the Universe | Sara Seager | Booklist 2 |
| 191 | The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary | Melissa Harrison | The Times |
| 192 | The System | James Ball | Waterstones |
| 193 | The Tristan Gooley Collection | Tristan Gooley | The Wall Street Journal |
| 194 | The Well Gardened Mind | Sue Stuart-Smith | Waterstones |
| 195 | The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens — and Ourselves | Arik Kershenbaum | The Times 2 |
| 196 | There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness | Carlo Rovelli | Waterstones |
| 197 | This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook | Henry James Garrett | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 198 | This One Wild and Precious Life: The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World | Sarah Wilson | Barnes & Noble 4 |
| 199 | Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage | Jeff Dondero | Booklist |
| 200 | Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird’s Amazing Journey | Robert Burleigh | Booklist 3 |
| 201 | Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time | Gaia Vince | Five Books |
| 202 | Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel | Yaa Gyasi | NPR |
| 203 | Two Trees Make a Forest | Jessica J. Lee | Bookpage |
| 204 | Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man | Emmanuel Acho | Barnes & Noble 6 |
| 205 | Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide | The Wall Street Journal 2 | |
| 206 | Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret | Catherine Coleman Flowers Bryan Stevenson (Foreword by) | Smithsonian |
| 207 | What Cats Want | Yuki Hattori | Waterstones |
| 208 | What Do You Think You Are? | Brian Clegg | Waterstones |
| 209 | What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why | David Allen Sibley | Barnes & Noble 2 |
| 210 | What We Need To Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future | Chris Goodall | Financial Times |
| 211 | Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road | Matthew B Crawford | Barnes & Noble 3 |
| 212 | Why We Swim | Bonnie Tsui | Goodreads |
| 213 | Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City | Fang Fang | Barnes & Noble |
| 214 | Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything | Viktor E. Frankl | Barnes & Noble 4 |
| 215 | You Might Die Tomorrow: Face Your Fear of Death to Live Your Most Meaningful Life | Kate Manser | Good men Project |
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| Barnes & Noble | Barnes & Noble’s Best Medicine Books of 2020 |
| Barnes & Noble 2 | Barnes & Noble’s Best Nature & Wildlife Books of 2020 |
| Barnes & Noble 3 | Barnes & Noble’s Best Philosophy Books of 2020 |
| Barnes & Noble 4 | Barnes & Noble’s Best Psychology Books of 2020 |
| Barnes & Noble 5 | Barnes & Noble’s Best Science Books of 2020 |
| Barnes & Noble 6 | Barnes & Noble’s Best Social Science Books of 2020 |
| Booklist | Top 10 Books on the Environment & Sustainability: 2020 |
| Booklist 2 | Top 10 Sci-Tech Books: 2020 |
| Booklist 3 | Top 10 Sci-Tech Books for Youth: 2020 |
| Bookpage | The best nature books of the year were written by women |
| Financial Times | Best books of 2020: Environment |
| Financial Times 2 | Best books of 2020: Science |
| Five Books | The Best Science Books of 2020: The Royal Society Book Prize |
| Five Books | The Best Philosophy Books of 2020 |
| Good men Project | All Things Geek Best Books 2020! |
| Goodreads | Best Science & Technology |
| NPR | NPR’s Book Concierge |
| Smithsonian | The Ten Best Science Books of 2020 |
| The Guardian | Science/Nature |
| The Telegraph | The best science books of 2020 |
| The Times | Best nature books of the year 2020 |
| The Times 2 | Best science books of the year 2020 |
| The Wall Street Journal | Holiday Gift Books 2020: Nature |
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| Waterstones | The Best Books of 2020: Nature Writing |
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