Amazon announces picks for best science books of 2022 — so far

{"value":"\n\nAmazon yesterday announced its picks [for 2022 Best Books of the Year So Far](https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/remarkably-bright-creatures-shelby-van-pelt-amazons-best-book), including its top book within the general-interest science category, “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again”.\n\nAmazon yesterday announced its picks for [2022’s Best Books of the Year So Far](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3003015011), including those within the general-interest science category.\n\n##### How Amazon Books editors made their selections\n\n[Amazon Books editor Al Woodworth explains](https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/how-amazon-books-editors-make-their-selections) why the Amazon Books editorial team chose Johann Hari's [Stolen Focus](https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deeply/dp/0593138511/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1654868145&sr=8-1): Why You Can't Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again as the best general-interest science book of the year — so far.\n\nThroughout the year, the Amazon Books editorial team [reads thousands of books](https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/editorspicks.html) and recommends their favorites through the [Best of the Month](https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=20905170011) program, the [Amazon Book Review](https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview?rw_useCurrentProtocol=1&ref_=abr_on_lp_n_botm_sb), and [Amazon Book Clubs](https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookclubs); the editors’ selections are curated and independent, and are not sponsored content. The editors also curate [celebrity picks](https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/celebritypicks.html?ref_=sin_abr_mr_nav), and [interview authors](https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/interviews.html?ref_=sin_abr_mr_nav) as well.\n\nAfter reading titles released between January through June 2022, the Amazon editorial team has made its selections for best books — so far — across a variety of categories.\n\nBelow are the Top 20 picks of 2022 — so far — within the general-interest science category:\n\n#### **1、Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again**\n\n\n\nBy [Johann Hari](https://www.amazon.com/Johann-Hari/e/B00NEUY9BY/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk)\n\n#### **2、Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole**\n\n\n\nBy [Susan Cain](https://www.amazon.com/Susan-Cain/e/B004XVMVYK/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **3、An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us**\n\n\n\nBy [Ed Yong](https://edyong.me/)\n\n#### **4、There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World**\n\n\n\nBy [Carlo Rovelli](https://www.amazon.com/Carlo-Rovelli/e/B00O0WCOBM/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **5、Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them**\n\n\n\nBy [Dan Saladino](https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Saladino/e/B096ZV7V44/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **6、How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going**\n\n\n\nBy [Vaclav Smil](https://www.amazon.com/Vaclav-Smil/e/B001HCXT62/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **7、Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma**\n\n\n\nby [Galit Atlas](https://www.amazon.com/Galit-Atlas/e/B00W6I7IR2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **8、Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions**\n\n\n\nBy [Todd Rose](https://www.amazon.com/Todd-Rose/e/B00AKO0UF6/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **9、The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward**\n\n\n\nBy [Daniel H. Pink](https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-H-Pink/e/B001IXS3PC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **10、How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion**\n\n\n\nBy [David McRaney](https://www.amazon.com/David-McRaney/e/B005T65KZA/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **11、The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann**\n\n\n\nBy [Ananyo Bhattacharya](https://www.amazon.com/Ananyo-Bhattacharya/e/B0923W18VK/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **12、he Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World**\n\n\n\nBy [Riley Black](https://www.amazon.com/Riley-Black/e/B08GRZSMC5/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **13、Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters**\n\n\n\nBy [Serhii Plokhy](https://www.amazon.com/Serhii-Plokhy/e/B001H6KWTU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **14、The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird**\n\n\n\nBy [Jack E. Davis](https://www.amazon.com/Jack-E-Davis/e/B001HMMBM0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **15、The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I**\n\n\n\nBy [Lindsey Fitzharris](https://www.amazon.com/Lindsey-Fitzharris/e/B06VWMDL4M/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **16、A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them**\n\n\n\nBy [Neil Bradbury, PhD](https://www.amazon.com/Neil-Bradbury-Ph-D/e/B09PZ6TWR4/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **17、The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late**\n\n\n\nBy [The Carbon Almanac Network](https://www.amazon.com/The-Carbon-Almanac-Network/e/B09SVVFGP4/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1), forward by [Seth Godin](https://www.amazon.com/Seth-Godin/e/B000AP9EH0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2)\n\n#### **18、Life Between the Tides**\n\n\n\nBy [Adam Nicolson](https://www.amazon.com/Adam-Nicolson/e/B001IR1OWM/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **19、Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through** \n\n\n\nBy [Stephanie Cacioppo](https://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Cacioppo/e/B095PWKF42/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\n#### **20、A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir**\n\n\n\nBy [Lindy Elkins-Tanton](https://www.amazon.com/Lindy-Elkins-Tanton/e/B09SDNNWDW/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\n#### **Staff writer**","render":"<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/f5a485cebec244bda146e6dfd9d1a0d0_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>Amazon yesterday announced its picks <a href=\"https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/remarkably-bright-creatures-shelby-van-pelt-amazons-best-book\" target=\"_blank\">for 2022 Best Books of the Year So Far</a>, including its top book within the general-interest science category, “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again”.</p>\n<p>Amazon yesterday announced its picks for <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3003015011\" target=\"_blank\">2022’s Best Books of the Year So Far</a>, including those within the general-interest science category.</p>\n<h5><a id=\"How_Amazon_Books_editors_made_their_selections_6\"></a>How Amazon Books editors made their selections</h5>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/how-amazon-books-editors-make-their-selections\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Books editor Al Woodworth explains</a> why the Amazon Books editorial team chose Johann Hari’s <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deeply/dp/0593138511/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1654868145&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen Focus</a>: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again as the best general-interest science book of the year — so far.</p>\n<p>Throughout the year, the Amazon Books editorial team <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/editorspicks.html\" target=\"_blank\">reads thousands of books</a> and recommends their favorites through the <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=20905170011\" target=\"_blank\">Best of the Month</a> program, the <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview?rw_useCurrentProtocol=1&amp;ref_=abr_on_lp_n_botm_sb\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Book Review</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookclubs\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Book Clubs</a>; the editors’ selections are curated and independent, and are not sponsored content. The editors also curate <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/celebritypicks.html?ref_=sin_abr_mr_nav\" target=\"_blank\">celebrity picks</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/interviews.html?ref_=sin_abr_mr_nav\" target=\"_blank\">interview authors</a> as well.</p>\n<p>After reading titles released between January through June 2022, the Amazon editorial team has made its selections for best books — so far — across a variety of categories.</p>\n<p>Below are the Top 20 picks of 2022 — so far — within the general-interest science category:</p>\n<h4><a id=\"1Stolen_Focus_Why_You_Cant_Pay_Attentionand_How_to_Think_Deeply_Again_16\"></a><strong>1、Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/8027c3933a45455b93f43904fbaee12c_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Johann-Hari/e/B00NEUY9BY/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk\" target=\"_blank\">Johann Hari</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"2Bittersweet_How_Sorrow_and_Longing_Make_Us_Whole_22\"></a><strong>2、Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/e62220803eb34dcbbde11ad1992edc07_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Susan-Cain/e/B004XVMVYK/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Cain</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"3An_Immense_World_How_Animal_Senses_Reveal_the_Hidden_Realms_Around_Us_28\"></a><strong>3、An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/b7af16b8a3c6435d98a4e8a80e6235a0_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://edyong.me/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Yong</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"4There_Are_Places_in_the_World_Where_Rules_Are_Less_Important_Than_Kindness_And_Other_Thoughts_on_Physics_Philosophy_and_the_World_34\"></a><strong>4、There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/8296104ae39944b29156d4f015f090b4_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Carlo-Rovelli/e/B00O0WCOBM/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Carlo Rovelli</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"5Eating_to_Extinction_The_Worlds_Rarest_Foods_and_Why_We_Need_to_Save_Them_40\"></a><strong>5、Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/e2df5e2da9df48c7b5bda613ef83f821_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Saladino/e/B096ZV7V44/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Saladino</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"6How_the_World_Really_Works_The_Science_Behind_How_We_Got_Here_and_Where_Were_Going_46\"></a><strong>6、How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/eec784753719460abb529d8c220fe415_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Vaclav-Smil/e/B001HCXT62/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Vaclav Smil</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"7Emotional_Inheritance_A_Therapist_Her_Patients_and_the_Legacy_of_Trauma_52\"></a><strong>7、Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/80284c1d867a468b912ee9f77fb7ffab_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>by <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Galit-Atlas/e/B00W6I7IR2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Galit Atlas</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"8Collective_Illusions_Conformity_Complicity_and_the_Science_of_Why_We_Make_Bad_Decisions_58\"></a><strong>8、Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/951a04a36b8a485dbf7fb3d5502ccace_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Todd-Rose/e/B00AKO0UF6/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Rose</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"9The_Power_of_Regret_How_Looking_Backward_Moves_Us_Forward_64\"></a><strong>9、The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/0cabf7f5d81846ac847d5d489b247045_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-H-Pink/e/B001IXS3PC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel H. Pink</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"10How_Minds_Change_The_Surprising_Science_of_Belief_Opinion_and_Persuasion_70\"></a><strong>10、How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/96b81e39bcc44640b65ca828f67b1864_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/David-McRaney/e/B005T65KZA/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">David McRaney</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"11The_Man_from_the_Future_The_Visionary_Life_of_John_von_Neumann_76\"></a><strong>11、The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/dcfadf409924459d84e323112666693f_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Ananyo-Bhattacharya/e/B0923W18VK/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Ananyo Bhattacharya</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"12he_Last_Days_of_the_Dinosaurs_An_Asteroid_Extinction_and_the_Beginning_of_Our_World_82\"></a><strong>12、he Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/029e37cbd9c646a0957cb652a548bacc_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Riley-Black/e/B08GRZSMC5/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Black</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"13Atoms_and_Ashes_A_Global_History_of_Nuclear_Disasters_88\"></a><strong>13、Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/8cdc058d94354e5881d4c8458573882c_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Serhii-Plokhy/e/B001H6KWTU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Serhii Plokhy</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"14The_Bald_Eagle_The_Improbable_Journey_of_Americas_Bird_94\"></a><strong>14、The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/def33b35fd0f481b9a898af365f6970e_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Jack-E-Davis/e/B001HMMBM0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Jack E. Davis</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"15The_Facemaker_A_Visionary_Surgeons_Battle_to_Mend_the_Disfigured_Soldiers_of_World_War_I_100\"></a><strong>15、The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/69e5432052424bd0bba56b416eb31528_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Lindsey-Fitzharris/e/B06VWMDL4M/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Fitzharris</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"16A_Taste_for_Poison_Eleven_Deadly_Molecules_and_the_Killers_Who_Used_Them_106\"></a><strong>16、A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/ae30bb672cad4cd794f8de317d05d316_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Neil-Bradbury-Ph-D/e/B09PZ6TWR4/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Bradbury, PhD</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"17The_Carbon_Almanac_Its_Not_Too_Late_112\"></a><strong>17、The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/3ff29652437940c4af42c2bc85f5ee3e_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/The-Carbon-Almanac-Network/e/B09SVVFGP4/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">The Carbon Almanac Network</a>, forward by <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Seth-Godin/e/B000AP9EH0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Godin</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"18Life_Between_the_Tides_118\"></a><strong>18、Life Between the Tides</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/52213be883ba42b69f585cde403ba9a9_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Adam-Nicolson/e/B001IR1OWM/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Nicolson</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"19Wired_for_Love_A_Neuroscientists_Journey_Through_124\"></a><strong>19、Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist’s Journey Through</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/6d8d437ec74941058ec73b3a13667b0f_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Cacioppo/e/B095PWKF42/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Cacioppo</a></p>\n<h4><a id=\"20A_Portrait_of_the_Scientist_as_a_Young_Woman_A_Memoir_130\"></a><strong>20、A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir</strong></h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/6fc800ed9fbd461f8b3815fdb7ba8e3c_image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" /></p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Lindy-Elkins-Tanton/e/B09SDNNWDW/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Lindy Elkins-Tanton</a></p>\n<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</p>\n<h4><a id=\"Staff_writer_138\"></a><strong>Staff writer</strong></h4>\n"}