Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/32907675-alex-the-ninja-squirrel">Alex The Ninja Squirrel</a> (49 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alex The Ninja Squirrel (49 Lists)

Drift by Rachel Maddow

"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

Why Is This Happening? Podcast Reading List

91 books — 6 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands

Best Books About Nineteenth Century History

649 books — 283 voters

Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

Best Of Investigative Journalism - Nonfiction

83 books — 50 voters

Truman by David McCullough

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower

Ghosts of Mississippi by Maryanne Vollers

War without Mercy by John W. Dower

National Book Award Nonfiction Winners and Finalists 1950-63, 1984-99

97 books — 3 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Modern Science Nonfiction

461 books — 314 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The 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 Hillenbrand

John Adams by David McCullough

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Truman by David McCullough

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Best Biographies

1,723 books — 3,094 voters

Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein

Biographies of Philosophers

151 books — 56 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,179 books — 1,594 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,842 books — 2,239 voters

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Best True Crime

1,434 books — 2,049 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

436 books — 462 voters

Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert

The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb

Spark by John J. Ratey

Positive Psychology Books

134 books — 43 voters

History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust - Fiction and Non

238 books — 138 voters

History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Books to Read under the Trump Administration

1,171 books — 521 voters

Truman by David McCullough

Many Are the Crimes by Ellen Schrecker

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson

29 books — 13 voters

John Adams by David McCullough

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

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

Truman by David McCullough

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Best American History Books

2,213 books — 2,610 voters

Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

Scienceblind by Andrew Shtulman

Spark by John J. Ratey

The ADHD Explosion by Stephen P. Hinshaw

Neuroscience and education

23 books — 14 voters

The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai

The Female Malady by Elaine Showalter

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld

Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Great and Desperate Cures by Valenstein

Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals

187 books — 92 voters

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld

Spark by John J. Ratey

Madness on the Couch by Edward Dolnick

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman

Lost 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 Sacks

The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks

How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

Neuroscience for Non-Scientists

111 books — 119 voters

Connectome by Sebastian Seung

Spark by John J. Ratey

Remembering by Donald G. MacKay

Great and Desperate Cures by Valenstein

Brain Fiction by William Hirstein

Neuroscience-Brain Books

77 books — 18 voters

Connectome by Sebastian Seung

How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb

Neuroscience Published in Decade: 2010s

85 books — 20 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

You Read a Book about What?

4,120 books — 2,298 voters

What the F by Benjamin K. Bergen

The Secret Life of Pronouns by James W. Pennebaker

Language Published in Decade: 2010s

13 books — 6 voters

What the F by Benjamin K. Bergen

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Holy Sh*t by Melissa Mohr

Made in America by Bill Bryson

Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads

176 books — 48 voters

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman

autism: fiction AND non-fiction

254 books — 235 voters

John Adams by David McCullough

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Best History Books

3,911 books — 4,003 voters

They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Black Power by Stokely Carmichael

Black Lives Matter Library

161 books — 34 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

Ghosts of Mississippi by Maryanne Vollers

206 books — 21 voters

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