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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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