The Scientific Image by Bas C. Van FraassenThe Dialogical Roots of Deduction by Catarina Dutilh NovaesScience without Numbers by Hartry FieldChance in the World by Carl HoeferFoundations of Space-Time Theories by Michael  Friedman
Lakatos Award Winners
40 books — 2 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLongitude by Dava Sobel
History of Science
485 books — 289 voters

The Story of Art by E.H. GombrichThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van GoghThe Shock of the New by Robert HughesThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneThe Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Best Art and Art History Books
804 books — 315 voters
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.The Audible Past by Jonathan SterneNoise by Jacques AttaliThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise Uprising by Michael Denning
Music, Listening, and Modernity
73 books — 12 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireInto Siberia by Gregory J. Wallance
Social Justice Education
334 books — 87 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Depression and Mental Illness
590 books — 493 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyI Have to Call Someone Mama by Tammy Eady WalkerEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeMore To Life by Jacob Lasher
Best Books On Mental Health
295 books — 228 voters

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,466 books — 1,382 voters
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontNadja by André BretonThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonIlluminations by Arthur RimbaudThe Seventh Horse and Other Tales by Leonora Carrington
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
136 books — 107 voters


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