It's no secret that in our pragmatic age popular science literature is becoming more and more popular, giving odds to the fiction of all stripes. For those who believe that it is never too late to learn, we have compiled a list of real pearls in the genre of science.

1. Eric Candel. In Search of Memory

2. Penny Lecuter, Jay Burrison. The buttons of Napoleon. Seventeen molecules that changed the world

3. Chris Frith. Brain and soul.

4. Jessica Snyder Sachs. Germs are good and bad. Our health and survival in the world

5. Arman Marie Leroy. Mutants

6. Nick Lane. Stairs of life. The Ten Greatest Inventions of Evolution

7. Ian Stewart. Truth and beauty. World History of Symmetry

8. Alex Vilenkin. The world of many worlds. Physicists in search of parallel universes

9. Neil Shubin. Inner fish. The history of the human body from the ancient times ...

10. John Derbyshire. A simple obsession. Bernhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics

11. Sean Carroll. Adapt and survive! DNA as a record of evolution

12. Neil Shubin. The universe is within us. What do stones, planets, and people have in common?

13. Mangit Kumar. Quantum. Einstein, Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality

14. Mark Changizi. The revolution in vision

15. Matt Ridley. Genome

16. Norman Doydge. Plasticity of the brain

17. Mitio Kaku. Future of the mind

18. N.P. Bekhtereva. The magic of the brain and the labyrinth of life

19. Richard Dawkins. A selfish gene

20. Stephen Hawking. Brief history of time. From the Big Bang to the Black Holes

21. Carl Sagan. A world full of demons. Science is like a candle in darkness.

22. What we believe, but we can not prove. Intellectuals of the XXI century about modern science

23. Richard F. Feynman. You're joking, of course, Mr. Feynman!

24. Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose. The nature of space and time

25. Fritjof Capra. Tao of physics. Exploring the Parallels between Modern Physics and the Mysticism of the East

26. Mary Roach. Cadavr. How the body after death serves science

27. Shintan Yau, Steve Nadis. Theory of strings and hidden dimensions of the universe

28. Carl Zimmer. Evolution. Triumph of the idea

29. Oliver Sachs. Anthropologist on Mars

30. Asya Kazantseva. Who would have thought! How the brain makes us do stupid things

31. Leonard Mladinov. (Neo) conscious. How the unconscious mind governs our behavior

32. Albert Einstein. The world as I see it

33. Philip Ball. Critical mass. How do some phenomena give birth to others?

34. Bill Bryson. A Brief History of almost everything in the world

35. Jared Diamond. Guns, germs and steel. The fate of human societies

36. Irina Levontina. Russian with dictionary

37. Jack Kelly. Powder. From alchemy to artillery. The history of the substance that changed the world

38. Masha Hesse. Perfect severity. Grigory Perelman: genius and the task of the millennium

39. David Deutsch. The structure of reality. The Science of Parallel Universes

40. Steven Strogatz. The pleasure of x. A fascinating excursion into the world of mathematics from one of the best teachers in the world

41. Thomas Kuhn. Structure of scientific revolutions

42. Jim Baggott. Higgs boson. From the scientific idea to the "particle of God"

43. Paul Halpern. Collider

44. Richard Dawkins. Chaplain of the devil. Reflections on hope, lies, science and love

45. Lisa Randall. Knockin 'on Heaven. Scientific view on the device of the universe

46. Mitio Kaku. Hyperspace. A scientific odyssey through parallel worlds, holes in time and the tenth dimension

47. Stephen Hawking. My brief history

48. Jacob Perelman. Interesting algebra. Entertaining geometry

49. Stephen Hawking, R. Penrose, A. Shimoni, N. Cartwright. The big, small and human mind

50. George Johnson. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in the History of Science

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