In Search of Respect by Philippe BourgoisThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanLiquidated by Karen HoArgonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronisław MalinowskiNisa by Marjorie Shostak
Good Ethnography
140 books — 101 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Secret Magdalene by Ki LongfellowNefertiti by Michelle    MoranCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle    Moran
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
455 books — 971 voters

Fire from Heaven by Mary RenaultThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerI, Claudius by Robert GravesThe King Must Die by Mary RenaultPompeii by Robert   Harris
Page Turning Ancient Historical Fiction
111 books — 43 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Books Written by Physicians
197 books — 84 voters

How to Launder Money by George CottrellThe Gift of Fear by Gavin de BeckerDangerous Personalities by Joe NavarroInsane by Alisa RothBedlam by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Mental Illness, Crime, and Violence
141 books — 48 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
593 books — 267 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
1,986 books — 2,228 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoHumankind by Brad AronsonThe Last Miracle Worker-2025 by Alan S. FergusonThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Best Non-Christian Spiritual Books
155 books — 82 voters

The Power of Now by Eckhart TolleThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanThe Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden
Best New Age Books
493 books — 392 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
78,428 books — 292,354 voters


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