A Decade of Hit Books

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Development as Freedom by Amartya SenWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluThe Bottom Billion by Paul CollierPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
International Development Book Club
122 books — 80 voters
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceThe White Album by Joan DidionComedian Gone Wrong by Jimmy TudeskiConsider the Lobster by David Foster WallaceBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Beyond David Sedaris: Essay Collections
192 books — 88 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
549 books — 254 voters
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeComplications by Atul Gawande
Best Books for Medical Students
435 books — 666 voters

Wild by Cheryl StrayedThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsJust Kids by Patti SmithEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer Barkley
Memoirs: Beautiful, Weird, Experimental, But Not Celebrity (An Education)
357 books — 158 voters
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker HoweWashington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Pulitzer Winners: History
108 books — 115 voters

Model Thinking for Everyday Life by Richard C. LarsonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Radiolab Suggested Readings
183 books — 306 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
2,056 books — 2,297 voters

Lost in Yaba by Walt GleesonThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngThe Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Beach by Alex Garland
Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia
317 books — 339 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEinstein by Walter IsaacsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerJohn Adams by David McCullough
Best Biographies
1,813 books — 3,306 voters

On Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
516 books — 629 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,414 books — 8,208 voters


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