Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/8392681-tyler">Tyler</a> (12 Lists)

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Stiff by Mary Roach

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,924 books — 2,291 voters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Native American Fiction

847 books — 649 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz

Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos by José Baroja

Mexican Literature

393 books — 232 voters

1491 by Charles C. Mann

1493 by Charles C. Mann

The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie

Collapse by Jared Diamond

The Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming

Pre-Columbian & Early Post-Columbian History of the Americas

164 books — 61 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester

Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean Daly

Martian Aeolian Geomorphology by Zhibao Dong

Best Geology Books

222 books — 93 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,276 books — 1,816 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Best New Orleans Books

426 books — 349 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate Hunter

1984 by George Orwell

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books Every Human Being Should Read

3,268 books — 2,496 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

2,060 books — 2,399 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Best Environmental Books

1,133 books — 1,328 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntosh

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1,277 books — 2,655 voters

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

36 books — 21 voters

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