16 must-read science books like Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure?: The Story of Ketones by Mary T. Newport

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Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure?: The Story of Ketones

By: Mary T. Newport

4.28

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Acting on new research showing that medium-chain fatty acids, which act like an alternative fuel in…

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1. The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

By: Will Storr

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new i…"

-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

"It might weigh little over a kilogram but, taken on its own scale, the brain is unimaginably vast. One cubic millimetre contains between twenty and twenty-five thousand neurons. It has eighty-six bil…"

-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

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2. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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3. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more

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4. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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5. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)

By: Jim Fergus

3.88

Format: None pages,

One Thousand White Womenis the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, unde… read more

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6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

By: None , Matthew Walker

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker pr… read more

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  • medical
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

7. The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #20; Mickey Haller, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

By: Michael Connelly

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defen… read more

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8. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more

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9. Sycamore Row

By: John Grisham

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from … read more

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10. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

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11. To Paradise

By: Hanya Yanagihara

3.75

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more

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"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

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12. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. Fast Like a Girl

By: Mindy Pelz

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle—even if you no longer have one! … read more

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  • science
  • nutrition
  • nonfiction
  • health
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14. Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Relationships are wonderful . . . until they're not. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author L… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Love can be unconditional but relational access never should be"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

"Trauma isn't just something that happens to you. It happens in you"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

"Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

"If we want recovery and healing we would be wise to take a break or possibly make a clean break from the one wounding us."

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

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15. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

By: Christopher M. Palmer

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
"Depression in children, adolescents, and young adults is increasing as well. From 2006 to 2917, rates of depression the US increased by 68 percent in children ages twelve to seventeen. In people ages…"

-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

"The specific psychiatric disorders in which mitochrondrial dysfunction has been identified include the following: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, autism, …"

-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

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16. 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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  • medical
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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17. Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

By: Daniel J. Levitin

3.93

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove … read more

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  • medical
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
"Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes."

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

"The Greek physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus discovered the nervous system in 322 BC, placing the seat of thought in the brain. It might be fair to say that they were the first neuroscientists. P…"

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

"Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a…"

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

"A large part of people who manage to stay young, in spite of their chronological age, relates to synaptic plasticity - the ability of the brain to make and form new connections. As we've seen, plasti…"

-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

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18. Dark Vector (NUMA Files, #19)

By: Graham Brown

4.41

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Kurt Austin must find a vanished ship and stave off a global catastrophe in the latest novel in the… read more

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19. That Weekend

By: Kara Thomas

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three best friends, a lake house, a secret trip - what could go wrong? It was supposed to be the… read more

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"How am I supposed to accept that the worst thing to ever happen to me has no meaning?"

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"I wish you'd killed me, I tried to say with my eyes. Then maybe someone would finally stop you."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Maybe, like me, it's even more than the absence. The silence, maybe - the waiting for the phone call that never comes."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Recently, she dyed her short blond bob a sassy red, a decision my mother and I discussed at length back when my friends weren't missing and we consumed other peoples' tragedies for entertainment."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

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20. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

By: Benjamin Bikman

4.12

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diab… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • nutrition
  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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23. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."

-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

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24. Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

By: Gabrielle Lyon

3.75

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new … read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • nutrition
  • nonfiction
  • science
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25. Zero Hour (Jack Ryan Jr., #15)

By: Don Bentley

4.41

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Ryan, Jr. is the one man who can prevent a second Korean War in the latest thrilling entry in … read more

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26. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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27. Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

By: Melissa Gilbert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilari… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everyone across America had the same idea at the same time. Chickens became the toilet paper of the spring."

-Melissa Gilbert, Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

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28. Clean: The New Science of Skin

By: James Hamblin

3.91

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more

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  • medical
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

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29. The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words

By: Dale E. Bredesen

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

First person stories of patients who recovered from Alzheimer's Disease--and how they did it. It h… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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30. Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are

By: Bill Sullivan

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Why are you attracted to a certain "type?" Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way yo… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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31. Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure?: The Story of Ketones

By: Mary T. Newport

4.28

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Acting on new research showing that medium-chain fatty acids, which act like an alternative fuel in… read more

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  • science

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4.23

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