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
434 books — 951 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
194 books — 82 voters

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de BeckerDangerous Personalities by Joe NavarroInsane by Alisa RothBedlam by Kenneth Paul RosenbergHidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Mental Illness, Crime, and Violence
139 books — 28 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyHamlet by William ShakespeareFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
583 books — 264 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
1,850 books — 2,012 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
151 books — 78 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarThe Power of Now by Eckhart TolleThe Echoes of Enigma by Ramzi Najjar
Best New Age Books
451 books — 323 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
76,591 books — 284,885 voters


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