18 Best nonfiction books like The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery by Lauren Aguirre

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The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery

By: Lauren Aguirre

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Aguirre writes clearly, conc…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery by Lauren Aguirre , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

By: Lisa Sanders

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School … read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

2. Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

By: George Newbern , Luke Dittrich

3.50

Format: 140 pages,

For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksand The Hare with Amber Eyescomes a propulsive, … read more

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3. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.48

Format: None pages,

In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more

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4. Walking on Water (The Walk, #5)

By: Richard Paul Evans

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In this fifth New York Timesbestseller in the Walk series, Richard Paul Evans's hero Alan Christoff… read more

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5. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

6. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood

7. Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

By: Wendy Wood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

8. 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

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

By: Christina Thompson

4.24

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."

-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

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10. The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

By: Guy Leschziner

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narco… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

By: Thomas Curran

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. Komisch, alles chemisch!

By: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Chemie ist alles – was wir tun, was uns umgibt, was wir fühlen, alles hat mit Chemie zu tun. Glaube… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

By: Guy Leschziner

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner leads readers through the five senses and h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science
"[...] the absence of sensation can be devastating. But an absence of pain – the loudest of our sensations – sounds like a blessing, not a curse. Pain screams its way into our consciousness, blotting …"

-Guy Leschziner, The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

Cover of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández

14. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

By: Daisy Hernández

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything by Randi Hutter Epstein

15. Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

By: Randi Hutter Epstein

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018 “A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded thr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery by Lauren Aguirre

16. The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery

By: Lauren Aguirre

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Aguirre writes clearly, conc… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Aguirre's The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery book and Lauren Aguirre's The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biology
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti

18. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

By: Paul Conti

3.74

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma Imagine, if yo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First by Wendy Dean

19. If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

By: Wendy Dean

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for pati… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything by Martin Ford

20. Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

By: Martin Ford

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times –bestselling author of  Rise of the Robots  shows what happens as AI takes over… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias by Skylar  Bayer

21. Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias

By: Skylar Bayer

4.72

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolatio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

17 Best audiobook books like The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery by Lauren Aguirre

Transform Your Habits

Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

Lisa Sanders

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

Wendy Wood

3.74

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19 must-read audiobook books like Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti

Transform Your Habits

Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

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