“What are the best Science And Nature books released in 2024?” We looked at 164 of the top Science And Nature books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 22 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Science And Nature” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 140+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

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Top 22 Best Science And Nature Books From 2024

22.) Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life written by Ferris Jabr

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Smithsonian

21.) Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters written by Brian Klaas

Lists It Appears On:

• Behavioral Scientist
• Waterstones

20.) Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness written by Jamil Zaki

Lists It Appears On:

• Behavioral Scientist
• Greater Good

19.) How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense written by Robin George Andrews

Lists It Appears On:

• ScienceNews
• Smithsonian

18.) I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine written by Daniel J. Levitin

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Smithsonian

17.) Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts written by Oliver Burkeman

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Behavioral Scientist

16.) On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything written by Nate Silver

Lists It Appears On:

• Behavioral Scientist
• Waterstones

15.) Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown written by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton

Lists It Appears On:

• Climate & Capitalism
• Verso

14.) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering written by Malcolm Gladwell

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Waterstones

13.) Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. written by Ryan Holiday

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Waterstones

12.) Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection written by Charles Duhigg

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Waterstones

11.) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise written by Olivia Laing

Lists It Appears On:

• Listener
• Waterstones

10.) The Price is Wrong Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet written by Brett Christophers

Lists It Appears On:

• Climate & Capitalism
• Verso

9.) The Story of a Heart written by Rachel Clarke

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• Waterstones

8.) What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures written by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Smithsonian

7.) Why We Die: The New Science Of Ageing And The Quest For Immortality written by Venki Ramakrishnan

Lists It Appears On:

• Listener
• Waterstones

6.) Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI written by Yuval Noah Harari

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Behavioral Scientist
• Waterstones

5.) The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness written by Jonathan Haidt

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Greater Good
• Waterstones

4.) The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth written by Zoë Schlanger

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Listener
• Smithsonian

3.) Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future written by Daniel Lewis

Lists It Appears On:

• Smithsonian
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

2.) Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters written by Charan Ranganath

Lists It Appears On:

• Greater Good
• Smithsonian
• Waterstones

1.) Our Moon: A Human History written by Rebecca Boyle

Lists It Appears On:

• Listener
• ScienceNews
• Smithsonian
• Waterstones

The 140+ Additional Best Science And Nature Books Released In 2024

23) 60 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year: How Wildlife Photography Became Art – The Natural History Museum List: (Waterstones)

24) A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects – Sally Coulthard List: (Waterstones)

25) A City on Mars – Kelly Weinersmith Zach Weinersmith List: (The Guardian)

26) A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage – Marcus Chown List: (Waterstones)

27) A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season – Lara Maiklem List: (Waterstones)

28) A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons – Sarah Raven List: (Waterstones)

29) After 1177 B.C. – Eric H. Cline List: (ScienceNews)

30) AGAINST THE CRISIS Economy and Ecology in a Burning World – Ståle Holgersen Steven Cuzner List: (Climate & Capitalism)

31) AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own – Verity Harding List: (Behavioral Scientist)

32) AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference – Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor List: (Behavioral Scientist)

33) Antiracist by Design: Reimagining Applied Behavioral Science – Crystal C. Hall and Mindy Hernandez List: (Behavioral Scientist)

34) Atlas of Finance – Dariusz Wójcik List: (Nature)

35) Being With Cows – Dave Mountjoy List: (Waterstones)

36) Burnout – Hannah Proctor List: (Verso)

37) Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space – Adam Higginbotham List: (Smithsonian)

38) Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI – Ethan Mollick List: (Behavioral Scientist)

39) Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI – Madhumita Murgia List: (Waterstones)

40) CONTAGION CAPITALISM Pandemics in the Corporate Age – Sean Creaven List: (Climate & Capitalism)

41) Countdown – Sarah Scoles List: (ScienceNews)

42) Crude Capitalism – Adam Hanieh List: (Verso)

43) CRUDE CAPITALISM Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market – Adam Hanieh List: (Climate & Capitalism)

44) Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations – Mary C. Murphy List: (Behavioral Scientist)

45) Cyberboss – Craig Gent List: (Verso)

46) Deep Water: the world in the ocean – James Bradley List: (Waterstones)

47) Diddly Squat: Home to Roost – Diddly Squat – Jeremy Clarkson List: (Waterstones)

48) Disaster Nationalism – Richard Seymour List: (Verso)

49) Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging – Jessica J. Lee List: (Waterstones)

50) Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination – Sadie Dingfelder List: (ScienceNews)

51) Dogs and Their Humans: Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet’s Surgery – Noel Fitzpatrick List: (Waterstones)

52) Don’t Believe Everything You Think – Joseph Nguyen List: (Barnes & Noble)

53) Done: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion – Daryl Van Tongeren List: (Greater Good)

54) England: A Natural History – John Lewis-Stempel List: (Waterstones)

55) Everest, Inc: The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World – Will Cockrell List: (Listener)

56) Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health – Dr Federica Amati List: (Waterstones)

57) Every Living Thing: The Great And Deadly Race To Know All Life – Jason Roberts List: (Listener)

58) Everything Is Predictable – Tom Chivers List: (The Guardian)

59) Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World – Tom Chivers List: (Behavioral Scientist)

60) Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World – Dorian Lynskey List: (Listener)

61) Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection – Julia Schwarzi Gottman and John Gottman List: (Greater Good)

62) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture – Kyle Chayka List: (Behavioral Scientist)

63) Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor – Arielle Johnson List: (ScienceNews)

64) Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being – Yuria Celidwen List: (Greater Good)

65) Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society – Daniel Chandler List: (Behavioral Scientist)

66) Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves – Nicola Twilley List: (Barnes & Noble)

67) Future of Denial – Tad DeLay List: (Verso)

68) Gardener’s Almanac 2025: A Month-by-Month Guide for Gardening Enthusiasts – National Trust – Greg Loades List: (Waterstones)

69) Gardeners’ World: A Year in a Small Garden: Creating a Beautiful Garden in Any Space – Frances Tophill List: (Waterstones)

70) Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See – Bianca Bosker List: (ScienceNews)

71) Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health – Casey Means MD List: (Barnes & Noble)

72) Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America’s Dangerous Divide – Keith Payne List: (Behavioral Scientist)

73) Grief Is for People – Sloane Crosley List: (Listener)

74) Hard By The Cloud House – Peter Walker List: (Listener)

75) How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it – Nigel Toon List: (Waterstones)

76) How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology – Philip Ball List: (Waterstones)

77) How to be a Bad Botanist – Simon Barnes List: (Waterstones)

78) How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days – Kari Leibowitz List: (Behavioral Scientist)

79) Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them – Derek Gow List: (Waterstones)

80) Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs – Luis Elizondo List: (Barnes & Noble)

81) Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion – Michael Taylor List: (Waterstones)

82) Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World – Harvey Whitehouse List: (Waterstones)

83) Inside the Political Mind: The Human Side of Politics and How It Shapes Development – Greg Power List: (Behavioral Scientist)

84) Inspiring Change: How to Influence Behaviour for a Better World – List: (Behavioral Scientist)

85) Intertwined – Michael Gross List: (Nature)

86) Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work – Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas List: (Behavioral Scientist)

87) It Was You All Along – Russ List: (Barnes & Noble)

88) Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York – Ross Perlin List: (Behavioral Scientist)

89) Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down – Corey Keyes List: (Behavioral Scientist)

90) Living on Earth – Peter Godfrey-Smith List: (Listener)

91) Lochs and Legends: A Scotsman’s Guide to the Heart of Scotland – Andy the Highlander List: (Waterstones)

92) Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There – Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein List: (Greater Good)

93) Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry – Matt Parker List: (Waterstones)

94) Magic Pill – Johann Hari List: (Waterstones)

95) Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World – J. Doyne Farmer List: (Behavioral Scientist)

96) Mapping the Deep – Dawn J. Wright List: (Nature)

97) May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It – Alex Edmans List: (Behavioral Scientist)

98) Meetings With Remarkable Animals – Martin Clunes List: (Waterstones)

99) Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far – Neil deGrasse Tyson List: (Barnes & Noble)

100) Money: A Story of Humanity – David McWilliams List: (Waterstones)

101) More Birds: Paintings of British Birds – Jim Moir List: (Waterstones)

102) My Animals, and Other Animals: A memoir of sorts – Bill Bailey List: (Waterstones)

103) Night Magic – Leigh Ann Henion List: (ScienceNews)

104) Night Sky Almanac 2025: A Stargazer’s Guide – Radmila Topalovic List: (Waterstones)

105) Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum – Daniel Tammet List: (Waterstones)

106) Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet – Hannah Ritchie List: (Listener)

107) Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens – Chris Lintott List: (Waterstones)

108) Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life – Brigid Schulte List: (Behavioral Scientist)

109) Overleaf: An Album of British Trees – Richard Ogilvy List: (Waterstones)

110) Planet Aqua – Jeremy Rifkin List: (Nature)

111) Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death – Susana Monsó List: (Behavioral Scientist)

112) Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World – Kelly Clancy List: (Behavioral Scientist)

113) Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict – William Ury List: (Greater Good)

114) Quantum Leaps: How Maths Drives Scientific Progress – Hugh Barker List: (Waterstones)

115) Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton List: (Waterstones)

116) Secrets of the Octopus – Sy Montgomery List: (Barnes & Noble)

117) SEEDING EMPIRE American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa – Aaron Eddens List: (Climate & Capitalism)

118) Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog: Exclusive Edition – Rory Cellan-Jones List: (Waterstones)

119) Still Waters & Wild Waves: The beautiful new book from printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding – Angela Harding List: (Waterstones)

120) Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right – Arlie Russell Hochschild List: (Barnes & Noble)

121) Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World – Parmy Olson List: (Waterstones)

122) Taking Back Control? – Wolfgang Streeck List: (Verso)

123) Ten Trips: A Psychedelic Adventure – Andy Mitchell List: (Listener)

124) The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between – Richard Mabey List: (Waterstones)

125) The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality – Amanda Montell List: (Barnes & Noble)

126) The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2025 – Almanac – Lia Leendertz List: (Waterstones)

127) The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It – Lorraine Besser List: (Greater Good)

128) The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck – David Spiegelhalter List: (Waterstones)

129) The Backyard Bird Chronicles – Amy Tan List: (Barnes & Noble)

130) The Beautiful Afternoon – Airini Beautrais List: (Listener)

131) THE BLUE MACHINE How the Ocean Works – Helen Czerski List: (Climate & Capitalism)

132) The Chthonic Cycle – Una Cruickshank List: (Listener)

133) The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth – Andreas Malm List: (Verso)

134) THE DIALECTICS OF ECOLOGY Socialism and Nature – John Bellamy Foster List: (Climate & Capitalism)

135) The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science – Dava Sobel List: (The Guardian)

136) The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie – Richard Dawkins List: (Waterstones)

137) The Greatest of All Plagues – David Lay Williams List: (Nature)

138) The Half Bird – Susan Smillie List: (Waterstones)

139) The High Seas – Olive Heffernan List: (ScienceNews)

140) The Impossible Man – Patchen Barss List: (The Guardian)

141) The Killing of Gaza – Gideon Levy List: (Verso)

142) The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved – Steven Mithen List: (Smithsonian)

143) The Last Drop – Tim Smedley List: (ScienceNews)

144) The Last of Its Kind – Gísli Pálsson List: (The Guardian)

145) The Laws of Connection: 13 Social Strategies That Will Transform Your Life – David Robson List: (Waterstones)

146) The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? – Guy Shrubsole List: (Waterstones)

147) The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There – Jack Cornish List: (Waterstones)

148) THE MOSQUITO A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator – List: (Climate & Capitalism)

149) THE ORIGINS OF COVID-19 China and Global Capitalism – List: (Climate & Capitalism)

150) The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life With Friendship at the Center – Rhaina Cohen List: (Greater Good)

151) The Place of Tides – James Rebanks List: (Waterstones)

152) The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong – john a. powell List: (Greater Good)

153) The Power of Hormones: The new science of how hormones shape every aspect of our lives – Max Nieuwdorp List: (Waterstones)

154) The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World – Robin Wall Kimmerer List: (Barnes & Noble)

155) The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI – Ray Kurzweil List: (Barnes & Noble)

156) Then I Am Myself the World – Christof Koch List: (ScienceNews)

157) This Is Why You Dream: What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life – Rahul Jandial List: (Waterstones)

158) Turning to Stone – Marcia Bjornerud List: (ScienceNews)

159) Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure – Maggie Jackson List: (Greater Good)

160) Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures – Katherine Rundell List: (Barnes & Noble)

161) Webb’s Universe: The Space Telescope Images That Reveal Our Cosmic History – Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock List: (Waterstones)

162) Wild Woman: Empowering Stories from Women who Work in Nature – Philippa Forrester List: (Waterstones)

163) Yesterday: A New History Of Nostalgia – Tobias Becker List: (Listener)

164) Your Face Belongs to Us – Kashmir Hill List: (The Guardian)

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