Top 10 List of Best Selling Books to Take Inventory of the Universe. Cosmos – Carl Sagan: Isaac’s Storm- Erik Larson: A Drop Of Water – Walter Wick: Dynamic Earth – Christiansen and Hamblin: Lab Girl – Hope Jahren: Nature Anatomy – Julia Rothman: The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Anatomy Coloring Book – Kapit and Elson: Brain Rules – John Medina: Mankind Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? – Frans de Waal: Inventory of the Universe – Sam Kneller