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r/askscience · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/askscience during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/askscience within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2024
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks #1

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

In 1951 doctors took cancer cells from a poor Black woman without asking her, and those cells are still alive and multiplying in labs around the world today.

3 in 2024
Cover of The Selfish Gene #2

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

A biologist argues you're not really driving the car — your genes are, and they've been doing it since before there was a you.

3 in 2024
Cover of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions #3

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

A cartoonist answers a stranger's question about dropping an entire thunderstorm as one giant raindrop, then keeps doing that for 300 pages.

2 in 2024
Cover of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body #4

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

A paleontologist traces the five-fingered human hand back through Tiktaalik to the fins of a 375-million-year-old fish.

2 in 2024
Cover of Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive #5

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

Philipp Dettmer

Philipp Dettmer, the voice behind Kurzgesagt, explains why your body sets off a full-scale war every time you catch a cold.

1 in 2024
Cover of On the Origin of Species #6

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

A naturalist explains how species arise without a designer, backed by decades of finch beaks, barnacles, and pigeon breeders.

1 in 2024
Cover of The Double Helix #7

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

James Watson tells the story of discovering DNA's structure in 1953, and treats Rosalind Franklin badly enough on the page that the argument has outlasted the science.

1 in 2024
Cover of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat #8

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

A neurologist's case files: patients who lost the ability to recognize faces, bodies, and the right side of the world — and remained fully themselves.

1 in 2024