The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Modern Science Nonfiction
461 books — 314 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Books White People Need to Read
1,389 books — 1,660 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandJohn Adams by David McCulloughThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootTruman by David McCulloughAlexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Best Biographies
1,723 books — 3,094 voters
Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein
Biographies of Philosophers
151 books — 56 voters

Helter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave CullenSmall Sacrifices by Ann RuleUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best True Crime
1,434 books — 2,049 voters
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
The Mind
436 books — 462 voters

Mindset by Carol S. DweckStumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd GilbertThe How of Happiness by Sonja LyubomirskyThe Upward Spiral by Alex KorbSpark by John J. Ratey
Positive Psychology Books
134 books — 43 voters
History on Trial by Deborah E. LipstadtThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie Wiesel
The Holocaust - Fiction and Non
238 books — 138 voters

Truman by David McCulloughMany Are the Crimes by Ellen SchreckerThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Harry S Truman
29 books — 13 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisTruman by David McCulloughThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best American History Books
2,213 books — 2,610 voters
Reading in the Brain by Stanislas DehaeneProust and the Squid by Maryanne WolfScienceblind by Andrew ShtulmanSpark by John J. RateyThe ADHD Explosion by Stephen P. Hinshaw
Neuroscience and education
23 books — 14 voters

The Lobotomist by Jack El-HaiThe Female Malady by Elaine ShowalterScience and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. LilienfeldFasting Girls by Joan Jacobs BrumbergGreat and Desperate Cures by Valenstein
Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals
187 books — 92 voters
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. LilienfeldSpark by John J. RateyMadness on the Couch by Edward DolnickNeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanLost Connections by Johann Hari
"Must Read" Psychology and Therapy Books
195 books — 100 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. RamachandranMusicophilia by Oliver SacksHow Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman BarrettAn Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Neuroscience for Non-Scientists
111 books — 119 voters
Connectome by Sebastian SeungSpark by John J. RateyRemembering by Donald G. MacKayGreat and Desperate Cures by ValensteinBrain Fiction by William Hirstein
Neuroscience-Brain Books
77 books — 18 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
You Read a Book about What?
4,120 books — 2,298 voters

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
autism: fiction AND non-fiction
254 books — 235 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best History Books
3,911 books — 4,002 voters

They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley LoweryStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBlack Power by Stokely Carmichael
Black Lives Matter Library
161 books — 34 voters
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. JamesGhosts of Mississippi by Maryanne Vollers
Black History
206 books — 21 voters


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