Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyA Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin HazzardComplications by Atul GawandeCall the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Compelling Medical Memoirs
372 books — 163 voters
The Brave Art of Motherhood by Rachel Marie  MartinStrong As a Mother by Kate RopeBelly Laughs by Jenny McCarthyThe Second Nine Months by Vicki GlembockiOperating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Motherhood
253 books — 212 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,839 books — 3,603 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinJohn Adams by David McCulloughTruman by David McCulloughWashington by Ron ChernowTheodore Rex by Edmund  Morris
Positively Presidential (nonfiction)
369 books — 70 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
687 books — 156 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakNadya's War by C.S.  TaylorBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Excellent World War 2 Novels
116 books — 47 voters