We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine
By: Amy Dockser Marcus
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolu…
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1. The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
By: Denis Avey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to… read more
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2. How Doctors Think
By: Jerome Groopman
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. I… read more
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- medicine
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- science
- health
3. 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
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- health
- medicine
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4. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- science
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- audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
6. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- science
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- audiobook
7. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
8. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
9. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- audiobook
- health
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10. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
11. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
12. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
By: Aparna Nancherla
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more
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- audiobook
13. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- audiobook
- health
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- nonfiction
- science
14. 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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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay
By: Cyndie Spiegel
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspir… read more
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- audiobook
16. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
- audiobook
17. Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
By: Cheuk Kwan
3.57
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brough… read more
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18. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixtee… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a high…"-Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
19. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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- audiobook
20. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
21. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- medicine
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- audiobook
22. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
23. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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24. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
By: Sunita Puri
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be… read more
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- health
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- science
25. Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
By: John Hendrickson
4.49
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. "Soulful...Profoundly moving."--… read more
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26. We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine
By: Amy Dockser Marcus
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolu… read more
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- medicine
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- science
27. The Portrait of a Duchess (Society of Sirens #2)
By: Scarlett Peckham
3.36
Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret...their ranks inclu… read more
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28. When We Fell Apart
By: Soon Wiley
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a … read more
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"The more I got to know here, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always intere…"-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart
"The more I got to know her, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always interes…"-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart
29. Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
By: Tracy Dawson
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases… read more
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30. The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
By: Vincent M. Figueredo
4.22
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the bod… read more
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31. The Masters of Medicine
By: Andrew Lam
4.52
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discover… read more
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