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| 1997 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | Anne Fadiman | Medicine & Public Health | 20 | 2 | 2 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 2005 | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | Memoir & Autobiography | 14 | 1 | 2 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2025 | A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled | Alex Green | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2015 | NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently | Steve Silberman | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2013 | Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World | Mark Miodownik | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | Penguin Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2023 | Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir | Margo Jefferson | Memoir & Autobiography | 8 | 0 | 2 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 2024 | Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Biography | 8 | 0 | 3 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 2010 | My Father's Fortune | Michael Frayn | Memoir & Autobiography | 6 | 1 | 2 | Faber & Faber | Faber & Faber |
| 2022 | The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness | Katie Booth | Biography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Avid Reader Press | Simon & Schuster |
| 2022 | The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness | Meghan O’Rourke | Medicine & Public Health | 6 | 0 | 2 | Riverhead Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2019 | Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life | Louise Aronson | Medicine & Public Health | 6 | 0 | 2 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2022 | Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present | Dennis Tyler | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2013 | Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation | Robert Bartlett | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2006 | The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease | Keith Wailoo, Stephen Pemberton | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 1995 | The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages | Joan Cadden | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 1993 | Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church | Samuel Freedman | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 1992 | Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States | Theda Skocpol | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
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| 2023 | Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor | Rachel Shteir | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2022 | TThe Facemaker | Lindsey Fitzharris | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Dutton | Penguin Random House |
| 2020 | The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story | Kate Summerscale | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2016 | In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | John Donvan, Caren Zucker | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Crown | Penguin Random House |
| 2015 | On Immunity: An Inoculation | Eula Biss | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Graywolf Press | Graywolf Press |
| 2014 | Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours | Maria Mutch | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2011 | Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters | Richard Rumelt | Business & Economics | 4 | 0 | 1 | Profile Books | Profile Books |
| 2010 | Arrival City: The Final Migration and our Next World | Doug Saunders | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Knopf Canada | Penguin Random House Canada |
| 2009 | The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son | Ian Brown | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Random House Canada | Penguin Random House Canada |
| 2008 | Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control | Dominic Streatfeild | War & Military | 4 | 0 | 1 | Picador | Macmillan |
| 2002 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science | Atul Gawande | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Metropolitan Books | Macmillan |
| 2001 | States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering | Stanley Cohen | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1993 | A Different Person | James Merrill | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1988 | Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir | Paul Monette | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1985 | The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World | Elaine Scarry | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1981 | Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession | Janet Malcolm | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1976 | The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise | Dorothy Dinnerstein | Gender & Sexuality | 4 | 0 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
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| 1970 | The Body Has a Head | Gustav Eckstein | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Bantam Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2020 | Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space | Amanda Leduc | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2017 | The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease | Meredith Wadman | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 2 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2019 | Asperger’s Children | Edith Sheffer | History | 2 | 0 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2019 | Working With Nature | Jeremy Purseglove | Nature & Environment | 2 | 0 | 1 | Profile Books | Profile Books |
| 2002 | The Real Mrs Miniver | Ysenda Maxtone Graham | Biography | 2 | 0 | 1 | John Murray | Hachette UK |
| 1997 | Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West | Peter N. Stearns | Society & Culture | 2 | 0 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2018 | There Will Be No Miracles Here | Casey Gerald | Memoir & Autobiography | 2 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2011 | Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools | Steven Brill | Society & Culture | 2 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2017 | Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality | Meryl Alper | Technology | 0 | 0 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2014 | The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day | David J. Hand | Science | 0 | 0 | 1 | Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |