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Health
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Best Books About Health: Essential Reading List
The best books about health — from Why We Sleep and Outlive to Being Mortal and The Omnivore's Dilemma. Science-based books that change how you understand your body.
Best Medical Books: Essential Reading on Medicine and the Body
The best medical books — from When Breath Becomes Air and The Emperor of All Maladies to Being Mortal and The Body. Medicine, death, and what it means to heal.
Where to Start with Atul Gawande: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Atul Gawande — whether to begin with Being Mortal, The Checklist Manifesto, or Complications. A complete reading guide to the surgeon-writer.
Where to Start with Michael Pollan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michael Pollan — whether to begin with The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, or How to Change Your Mind. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michael Easter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michael Easter — how to approach The Comfort Crisis, his adventure-journalism investigation into why optimising for comfort is making us worse, combining 33 days hunting in Alaska with the science of beneficial hardship. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Max Lugavere: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Max Lugavere — how to approach Genius Foods, his research-based guide identifying the ten foods that most protect brain health and cognitive function, informed by watching his mother's Lewy body dementia diagnosis. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Sheff: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Sheff — how to approach Beautiful Boy, his memoir about watching his son's methamphetamine addiction through years of relapse and recovery, told from the parent's perspective with a journalist's precision. A complete reading guide.
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