Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
198th out of 1,818 books — 1,995 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Must Read Non-Fiction
720th out of 4,208 books — 3,800 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLongitude by Dava Sobel
History of Science
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWhy They Stay by Anne  MichaudGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
563rd out of 3,472 books — 1,416 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
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Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsReady Player One by Ernest ClineCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Computers in Literature
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Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information by I.C. PapachristosPhylogenetic Trees Made Easy by Barry G. HallPractical Computing for Biologists by Steven HaddockBioinformatics and Functional Genomics by Jonathan PevsnerBeginning Perl for Bioinformatics by James Tisdall
Bioinformatics Essential Books
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Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information by I.C. PapachristosRejuvenaging by Ron KaiserElectronic Health Records by Richard GarteeThe 21st Century Man by Judson BrandeisPrinciples and Practice of Public Health Surveillance by Lisa M. Lee
Health Informatics
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Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm GladwellCosmos by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Pop Science Books
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl SaganGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best General Science Books
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