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
48 books — 32 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
98 books — 12 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
138 books — 57 voters
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. DavisCaptive Genders by Eric A. StanleyDiscipline and Punish by Michel FoucaultThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderAmerican Prison by Shane Bauer
Prison Abolition
136 books — 49 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
351 books — 158 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
126 books — 104 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
331 books — 319 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
German Classics
226 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
1,841 books — 1,999 voters

Matisse the Master by Hilary SpurlingRenoir, My Father by Jean RenoirLeonardo da Vinci by Walter IsaacsonVan Gogh by Steven NaifehNegative Space by Lilly Dancyger
Artist Biographies
213 books — 70 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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