Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis
By: Ross A. Slotten
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state…
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1. The Family that Couldn't Sleep
By: D.T. Max
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes t… read more
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- medicine
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"Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some la…"-D.T. Max, The Family that Couldn't Sleep
2. Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
By: David Roberts
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrati… read more
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- american history
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3. A Home at the End of the World
By: Michael Cunningham
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Michael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, intros… read more
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"I’m not this unusual,"-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
"I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me."-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
"This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand."-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
"The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws."-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
4. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- science
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
5. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more
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6. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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- queer
7. Alien
By: Alan Dean Foster
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Based on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sle… read more
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8. Who Goes There?
By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.
3.80
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more
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9. The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
By: Dan Savage
3.70
Format: 368 pages,
In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Sava… read more
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10. Ghosts of St. Vincent's
By: Tom Eubanks
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
"Before the entitled lived here exclusively, the marginalized died in droves." Founded in 1849 to c… read more
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11. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
12. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
13. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By: Elon Green
3.84
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more
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- lgbt
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14. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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- nonfiction
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15. Rabbit Hole
By: Kate Brody
3.10
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Conspiracy theories from Reddit seduce a disaster-prone woman into an obsession with solving her ol… read more
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16. End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
By: Patty Lin
3.79
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a compl… read more
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- memoir
17. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)
By: John E. Douglas
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more
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18. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
By: David Nott
4.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more
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"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
19. We Must Not Think of Ourselves
By: Lauren Grodstein
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more
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"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
20. God Spare the Girls
By: Kelsey McKinney
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover a dark secret about … read more
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21. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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22. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
23. The Inheritance
By: Matthew López
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more
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"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
24. The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
By: Evan Hughes
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until… read more
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25. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
By: Peter Apps
4.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The truth about Grenfell at long last. It is hardly possible to admit it. That the biggest tower bl… read more
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26. All The Young Men
By: Ruth Coker Burks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more
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"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
27. The Great Believers
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chic… read more
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"Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?"-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin"-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world."-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"And when you came here from Heaven, you left the door open so he could go out."-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
28. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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29. High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
By: Chavi Eve Karkowsky
4.40
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Karkowsky offers a window into all that pregnancy, labor, and birth can entail—birth and joy, but a… read more
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30. Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis
By: Ross A. Slotten
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state… read more
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- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- queer
31. Nurses On The Inside: Stories Of The HIV/AIDS Epidemic In NYC
By: Ellen Matzer
4.29
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
This is based on true and real events. It is the story of two nurses who witnessed the early years … read more
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