When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeComplications by Atul Gawande
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407 books — 580 voters
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Best Books Written by BIPOC Authors
298 books — 64 voters

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1,924 books — 2,048 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
356 books — 319 voters

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather   MorrisPachinko by Min Jin LeeWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
GPREBC
46 books — 4 voters
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisNecessary Trouble by Sarah  JaffeHope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit101 Changemakers by Michele BollingerThis Is an Uprising by Mark Engler
Build and Fight
24 books — 2 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Library of Resistance
192 books — 68 voters
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisOur Revolution by Bernie SandersGive Us the Ballot by Ari BermanWhite Trash by Nancy IsenbergThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Stop Trump Reading List
145 books — 55 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,094 books — 2,276 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsStiff by Mary RoachThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Great reads about Life Sciences
105 books — 48 voters