10 must-read health books like Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement by Roy A. Meals

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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

By: Roy A. Meals

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining illustrated deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the lates…

If you liked the health plot in Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement by Roy A. Meals , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

Similar categories in Emily Monosson's Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • science
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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2. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. To the Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!: A Memoir

By: Ed Begley Jr.

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. shares hilarious and poignant stories of his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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7. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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8. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

By: Robert H. Lustig

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

Similar categories in Anupam B. Jena's Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

By: Roy A. Meals

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining illustrated deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the lates… read more

Similar categories in Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • science
  • fitness
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • nature
  • audiobook
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11. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By: Alexandra Lange

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Lange's Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Cover of Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery by Christie Aschwanden

12. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

By: Christie Aschwanden

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more

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  • science
  • fitness
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

13. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Cover of Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way by Roma Agrawal

14. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

By: Roma Agrawal

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more

Similar categories in Roma Agrawal's Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

By: Kim Foster

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more

Similar categories in Kim Foster's The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain

By: Ryan North

4.01

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom  Ireland

17. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

By: Tom Ireland

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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18. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

By: Jen Gunter

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more

Similar categories in Jen Gunter's Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"

-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"

-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"

-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

Cover of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez

19. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning

By: Peter J. Hotez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more

Similar categories in Peter J. Hotez's The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey

20. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

By: Colin Dickey

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dickey's Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy book and Roy A. Meals's Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. CHARGE: Why Does Gravity Rule?

By: Frank Close

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Frank Close delves into fundamental particles and forces to find clues to a deep unsolved mystery o… read more

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  • science

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3.71

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