Royal Society Science Book Prize Winners

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Winners

	An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong 4.47 avg rating — 30,939 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters by Henry Gee (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 2,740 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 45,084 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang 3.48 avg rating — 2,139 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez 4.35 avg rating — 149,030 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 3.79 avg rating — 1,204 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 3,480 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf 4.32 avg rating — 27,879 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince 4.06 avg rating — 894 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik 4.11 avg rating — 20,231 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 4,374 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 16,696 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations by Gavin Pretor-Pinney 3.86 avg rating — 463 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane 4.12 avg rating — 5,246 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 3.97 avg rating — 9,738 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Usborne Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do by Rebecca Gilpin 4.26 avg rating — 61 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas 4.06 avg rating — 2,048 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Feel the Force? by Richard Hammond 4.23 avg rating — 69 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert 3.82 avg rating — 62,713 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Garden by Kate Petty 4.62 avg rating — 40 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 1,387 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball 3.89 avg rating — 1,426 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Makes Me, Me? by Robert Winston 4.32 avg rating — 62 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Really Rotten Experiments by Nick Arnold 4.07 avg rating — 116 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures by Chris McManus 3.81 avg rating — 288 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DK Guide: Ocean by Frances Dipper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking 4.19 avg rating — 44,301 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Body by Richard Walker 4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig 4.13 avg rating — 500 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DK Guide: Weather by Michael Allaby 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars