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The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Way of Zen by Alan W. WattsSymposium by PlatoThe Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid
Joseph Campbell Reading List
50 books — 34 voters
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenWe Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi CoatesBrazillionaires by Alex CuadrosThe Color of Money by Mehrsa BaradaranThe Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Intercept
99 books — 13 voters

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonPushout by Monique W. MorrisResistance Behind Bars by Victoria Law
Prison History & Theory
139 books — 58 voters
How to Launder Money by George CottrellAre Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. DavisCaptive Genders by Eric A. StanleyDiscipline and Punish by Michel FoucaultThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Prison Abolition
139 books — 70 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
History of Medicine
355 books — 163 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

Good Omens by Terry PratchettThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDracula by Bram Stoker
Sympathy for the Devil
345 books — 328 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoethePerfume by Patrick Süskind
German Classics
227 books — 150 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
2,011 books — 2,275 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Medieval and Renaissance historical fiction
472 books — 413 voters

Matisse the Master by Hilary SpurlingMythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanRenoir, My Father by Jean RenoirLeonardo da Vinci by Walter IsaacsonNegative Space by Lilly Dancyger
Artist Biographies
205 books — 78 voters
Music Therapy Research by Barbara L. WheelerThis Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. LevitinMusicophilia by Oliver SacksMusic Therapy Handbook by Barbara L. WheelerMusic, The Brain, And Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain
Best Music Therapy Books
61 books — 16 voters


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