Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/32596334-joy">Joy</a> (12 Lists)

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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu

The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier

Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

International Development Book Club

122 books — 81 voters

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The White Album by Joan Didion

Comedian Gone Wrong by Jimmy Tudeski

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Beyond David Sedaris: Essay Collections

192 books — 88 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

A Collection of Essays by George Orwell

The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus

Arguably by Christopher Hitchens

Best/Favorite Books of Essays

550 books — 254 voters

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Complications by Atul Gawande

Best Books for Medical Students

436 books — 666 voters

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

This Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer Barkley

Memoirs: Beautiful, Weird, Experimental, But Not Celebrity (An Education)

359 books — 158 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe

Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Pulitzer Winners: History

109 books — 116 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Model Thinking for Everyday Life by Richard C. Larson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Radiolab Suggested Readings

183 books — 304 voters

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Medicine and Literature

2,063 books — 2,404 voters

Lost in Yaba by Walt Gleeson

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas

The Beach by Alex Garland

Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia

317 books — 339 voters

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Einstein by Walter Isaacson

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

John Adams by David McCullough

Best Biographies

1,856 books — 3,302 voters

On Writing by Stephen King

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Best Books on Creative Life

515 books — 628 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,534 books — 8,274 voters

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