2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Charlene (21 Lists)



The Invention of Nature by Andrea WulfEndless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. CarrollThe Swerve by Stephen GreenblattThe Island of Knowledge by Marcelo GleiserMistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris
Non-Fiction read in 2016
228 books — 46 voters
Ecological Planet by John C. KricherThe Secret Life of Dust by Hannah HolmesFree Radicals by Michael BrooksThe Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll
Best Pop Science Books
171 books — 187 voters

Candide by VoltaireMerchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes
A Skeptic's Library
170 books — 127 voters
The Book of Woe by Gary GreenbergSybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan
Great Reads About Mental Health
365 books — 411 voters

The Book of Woe by Gary GreenbergSybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan
Best Books On Mental Health
264 books — 216 voters
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha StoutThe Book of Woe by Gary GreenbergThe Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. SaksSybil Exposed by Debbie NathanI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read
1,350 books — 1,473 voters

Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan
Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals
187 books — 92 voters
Spillover by David QuammenThe Patient Will See You Now by Eric J. TopolThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)
250 books — 119 voters

The Panic Virus by Seth MnookinThe Patient Will See You Now by Eric J. TopolSpillover by David Quammen
Science Based Medicine Recommends
131 books — 101 voters
Scaling in Biology by Geoffrey B. WestFearful Symmetry by Ian StewartLinked by Albert-László BarabásiComplexity and Chaos by Roger White
Complexity
161 books — 164 voters

The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo GleiserThe Perfect Theory by Pedro G. Ferreira
History of Science
485 books — 289 voters
Ecological Planet by John C. KricherLife's Engines by Paul G. FalkowskiNeutrino Hunters by Ray JayawardhanaThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles DarwinThe Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes
Best General Science Books
582 books — 488 voters

Candide by VoltaireSeductive Poison by Deborah LaytonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Island of Knowledge by Marcelo GleiserThe Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Favorite Books
14,362 books — 9,966 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettRoots by Alex HaleyThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneFever by Mary Beth Keane
Best Historical Fiction
7,406 books — 25,587 voters

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol TavrisThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanAn Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 491 voters
Neutrino Hunters by Ray JayawardhanaThe Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean CarrollCreation by Adam RutherfordThe Perfect Theory by Pedro G. Ferreira
Science Writing
284 books — 140 voters

Class Reunion by Rona JaffeI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
Born in the 1960s - What We Read as Teens
574 books — 70 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Medicine and Literature
1,845 books — 2,005 voters

Worse Than Slavery by David M. OshinskyThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderEndless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. CarrollGravity's Engines by Caleb ScharfThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books Ever
76,191 books — 283,300 voters
Gravity's Engines by Caleb ScharfThe Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean CarrollSex at Dawn by Christopher RyanEndless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. CarrollThe Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters

The Panic Virus by Seth MnookinThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
History of Medicine
351 books — 158 voters