Since I hate clickbait, the novels are:
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov
Timescape - George Benford
BlindSight - Peter Watts
A Door into Ocean - Joan Slonczewski
Contact - Carl Sagan
But each book has a nice write up in the article.
Link: https://bigthink.com/books/science-fiction-novels-by-scientists/?ICID=ref_fark
@MissGayle I have an autographed copy of Nightfall.
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