20 books on popular science

The 20 books most often tagged popular science on LibraryThing:

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
3. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
4. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
5. Chaos by James Gleick
6. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe… by Richard Dawkins
7. The Code Book by Simon Singh
8. Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh
9. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
10. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
11. The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
12. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
13. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
14. The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
15. Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
16. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
17. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”; Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
18. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
19. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
20. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

No surpises. Every book on this list is wildly popular, but I can’t help wondering if popular also means ‘read’ or rather ‘owned’…