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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouGather Together in My Name by Maya AngelouAll God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya AngelouA Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya AngelouThe Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Best of Maya Angelou
69 books — 10 voters
The Midwife by Jennifer WorthWe Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. NormanAnd If I Perish by Evelyn M. MonahanLife Support by Suzanne GordonA Nurse's Story by Tilda Shalof
Real Nurses
239 books — 58 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
410 books — 587 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
422 books — 548 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Works - Oh, What Is The Meaning of Life?
304 books — 209 voters
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Republic by PlatoCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantMeditations by Marcus AureliusFrom Darkness Into Light by A. Helwa
Best World Philosophy Book
954 books — 1,422 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,201 books — 2,831 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
329 books — 330 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,118 books — 1,506 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick HouseThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaLife Revisited by Laurent GrenierFrom Mountains to Medicine by Erica M. Elliott
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
97 books — 57 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,391 books — 1,661 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,861 books — 2,244 voters


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