Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
By: Henry Nicholls
3.91
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
When Henry Nicholls was twenty-one, he was diagnosed with a medical disorder causing him to fall a…
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1. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
By: Gabrielle Zevin
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for t… read more
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"Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity."-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
"Jesus, I thought Zuckerman was cheating in you, Chief."-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
"You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know."-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
"But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both."-Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
2. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
By: Sam Quinones
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more
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4. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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5. Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir
By: None
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy d… read more
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6. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
By: Steve Silberman
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more
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7. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
By: Naomi Alderman
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more
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8. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
9. Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do
By: Morgan Cutlip
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Loving your kids isn’t supposed to mean you completely disappear or get swallowed up by the demands… read more
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- health
"You are not needy. You are not too much. You are not required to give all of you in order for others to thrive. You must not give all of you. In fact, it is imperative that you don't. You deserve to …"-Morgan Cutlip, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do
10. 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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- popular science
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11. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- health
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"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
12. And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgeman, #1)
By: Nick Jones
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
He only looked away for a second. Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister Amy ov… read more
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13. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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14. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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15. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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- medical
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16. Bad Tourists
By: Caro Carver
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwin… read more
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"Her default setting is to say no to any offers of help, that she’s fine, even when she’s not."-Caro Carver, Bad Tourists
17. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more
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"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
18. Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life: How to Harness the Power of Clock Genes to Lose Weight, Optimize Your Workout, and Finally Get a Good Night's Sleep
By: Suhas Kshirsagar
4.03
Format: 288 pages, ebook
An eye-opening handbook from a leading Ayurvedic physician that blends cutting-edge science on "clo… read more
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- self help
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19. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
By: Camonghne Felix
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more
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"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
20. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
By: Deborah Blum
3.92
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author … read more
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21. Arch-Conspirator
By: Veronica Roth
3.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of … read more
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22. Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
By: Alex Bezzerides
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, irreverent guide to human evolution and what it means for our bodies today An… read more
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- health
23. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
By: Rebecca Traister
4.37
Format: 320 pages, ebook
From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital… read more
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"Women's anger has been buried, over and over again. But it has seeded the ground; we are the green shoots of furies covered up long ago."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
"Women's ire in any political context remains coded as chaotic, while men's is comprehensible, understood as rational and often admirable."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
"As Amanda Litman... has written, 'Instead of resisting (anger) or avoiding it, let your fury push you to action. Embrace your anger and put it to work."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
"When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
24. The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need
By: Nancy Colier
3.42
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Are you feeling emotionally exhausted? Do you worry about being likable (at all cost)? Are you tryi… read more
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- self help
25. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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- psychology
26. Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home
By: Kate Mangino
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"An inspiring and inclusive guide for rethinking and reworking household gender roles."― Booklist (… read more
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- psychology
- self help
27. The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
By: Sharon Moalem
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Guardian Book of the Week Longlisted for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award … read more
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- medical
- science
- nonfiction
- health
"When it comes to dealing with the trauma of life, genetic females have options. And genetic males don’t."-Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
"So, like diamonds that require an immense amount of pressure and energy to form one hundred miles under the surface of the earth, women are just harder to make."-Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
"Individuals may fluidly accept or change their gender, which may not align with the one assumed at any point throughout the life course. Yet when it comes to sex chromosomes and their immense effects…"-Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
"Here are some basic facts: Women live longer than me. Women have stronger immune systems. Women are less likely to suffer from a developmental disability, are more likely to see the world in a wider …"-Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
28. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
By: Ally Carter
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Time… read more
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29. Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
By: Sadie Dingfelder
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind, and investigates the neuroscience of sig… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
- science
30. Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
By: Henry Nicholls
3.91
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
When Henry Nicholls was twenty-one, he was diagnosed with a medical disorder causing him to fall a… read more
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