The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World

Mari Andrew

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

Rachel Clarke

The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey

Vincent M. Figueredo

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

Christian Madsbjerg

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Charles King

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

Brian Hare

What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

Minouche Shafik

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Jane Goodall

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth

The River of Consciousness

Oliver Sacks

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Neuromancer

William Gibson

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Humans

Matt Haig

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Kathryn Schulz

A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

Bill Mesler

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

Marilyn Johnson

An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering

Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History

Brian M. Fagan