10 Best science books like I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin

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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levi…

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1. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • science
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

By: Boyce Upholt

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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6. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

By: Katherine Rundell

4.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) recko… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt

9. Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

By: Bill Schutt

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neandert… read more

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  • science
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

By: Spencer Henry

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

By: Kate Kitagawa

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, span… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levi… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Levitin's I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine book and Daniel J. Levitin's I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

  • music
  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • research
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life

By: Nathalie A. Cabrol

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of the world’s leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy by David Rohde

14. Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

By: David Rohde

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How Donald Trump subverted the law and Merrick Garland misjudged the need to hold him accountable b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

16. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Truths: The Future of America First by Vivek Ramaswamy

17. Truths: The Future of America First

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader. read more

Similar categories in Vivek Ramaswamy's Truths: The Future of America First book and Daniel J. Levitin's I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

  • nonfiction
Cover of Targeted: Beirut — The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror by Jack Carr

18. Targeted: Beirut — The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

By: Jack Carr

4.65

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that chan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

19. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci

20. What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Patriot: A Memoir

By: Alexei Navalny

4.50

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate pric… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you have a criminal conviction, you are barred from running for office."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"All schooboys had been to the stores and had noticed the long queues, and knew that the most used word in the Soviet lexicon was "shortage."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"A serious political leader cannot simply decide to turn his back on a huge number of his fellow citizens because he personally dislikes their views."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

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