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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812Winthrop D. Jordan196828 pts4 wins4 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+3
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two CulturesAnne Fadiman199720 pts2 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+2
The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion200514 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s DisabledAlex Green202510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+3
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think DifferentlySteve Silberman201510 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made WorldMark Miodownik201310 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin BooksScienceDisability & Difference+3
Constructing a Nervous System: A MemoirMargo Jefferson20238 pts0 wins2 listsPantheonMemoir & AutobiographyMental Health & Psychology+2
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre LordeAlexis Pauline Gumbs20248 pts0 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyDisability & Difference+3
My Father's FortuneMichael Frayn20106 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End DeafnessKatie Booth20226 pts0 wins2 listsAvid Reader PressBiographyDisability & Difference+3
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic IllnessMeghan O’Rourke20226 pts0 wins2 listsRiverhead BooksMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+2
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining LifeLouise Aronson20196 pts0 wins2 listsBloomsburyMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+2
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the PresentDennis Tyler20224 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the ReformationRobert Bartlett20134 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressReligionArt, Music & Performance+3
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell DiseaseKeith Wailoo, Stephen Pemberton20064 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle AgesJoan Cadden19954 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+3
Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black ChurchSamuel Freedman19934 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsReligionClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United StatesTheda Skocpol19924 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentDemocracy & Elections+3
WWe’re AloneEdwidge Danticat20244 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2
Betty Friedan: Magnificent DisruptorRachel Shteir20234 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyGender & Feminism+2
TThe FacemakerLindsey Fitzharris20224 pts0 wins1 listsDuttonMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+2
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost StoryKate Summerscale20204 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburySociety & CultureArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
In a Different Key: The Story of AutismJohn Donvan, Caren Zucker20164 pts0 wins1 listsCrownMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+1
On Immunity: An InoculationEula Biss20154 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressMedicine & Public HealthMemoir & Personal History+2
Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small HoursMaria Mutch20144 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It MattersRichard Rumelt20114 pts0 wins1 listsProfile BooksBusiness & EconomicsDisability & Difference+3
Arrival City: The Final Migration and our Next WorldDoug Saunders20104 pts0 wins1 listsKnopf CanadaSociety & CultureCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled SonIan Brown20094 pts0 wins1 listsRandom House CanadaMemoir & AutobiographyDisability & Difference+3
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind ControlDominic Streatfeild20084 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorWar & MilitaryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceAtul Gawande20024 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and SufferingStanley Cohen20014 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
A Different PersonJames Merrill19934 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyLiterary Biography+2
Borrowed Time: An AIDS MemoirPaul Monette19884 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyGroup Biography+2
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the WorldElaine Scarry19854 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible ProfessionJanet Malcolm19814 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+2
The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human MalaiseDorothy Dinnerstein19764 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsGender & SexualityDisability & Difference+2
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe PoeDaniel Hoffman19724 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
The Body Has a HeadGustav Eckstein19704 pts0 wins1 listsBantam BooksMedicine & Public HealthDisability & Difference+2
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making SpaceAmanda Leduc20204 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+1
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating DiseaseMeredith Wadman20174 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
Asperger’s ChildrenEdith Sheffer20192 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryMental Health & Psychology+2
Working With NatureJeremy Purseglove20192 pts0 wins1 listsProfile BooksNature & EnvironmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Real Mrs MiniverYsenda Maxtone Graham20022 pts0 wins1 listsJohn MurrayBiographyDisability & Difference+3
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. Stearns19972 pts0 wins1 listsNew York University PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2
There Will Be No Miracles HereCasey Gerald20182 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyEmpire & Colonialism+1
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's SchoolsSteven Brill20112 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterSociety & CultureConstitutional History+3
Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and InequalityMeryl Alper20170 pts0 wins1 listsMIT PressTechnologyClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every DayDavid J. Hand20140 pts0 wins1 listsScientific American/Farrar, Straus and GirouxScienceLiterature & Writers+3
1968White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812Winthrop D. JordanRace & Ethnicity2844University of North Carolina PressUniversity of North Carolina Press
1997The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two CulturesAnne FadimanMedicine & Public Health2022Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan
2005The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan DidionMemoir & Autobiography1412Random HousePenguin Random House
2025A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s DisabledAlex GreenBiography1011UnknownNot yet sourced
2015NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think DifferentlySteve SilbermanSociety & Culture1011Penguin PressPenguin Random House
2013Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made WorldMark MiodownikScience1011Penguin BooksPenguin Random House
2023Constructing a Nervous System: A MemoirMargo JeffersonMemoir & Autobiography802PantheonPenguin Random House
2024Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre LordeAlexis Pauline GumbsBiography803Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan
2010My Father's FortuneMichael FraynMemoir & Autobiography612Faber & FaberFaber & Faber
2022The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End DeafnessKatie BoothBiography602Avid Reader PressSimon & Schuster
2022The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic IllnessMeghan O’RourkeMedicine & Public Health602Riverhead BooksPenguin Random House
2019Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining LifeLouise AronsonMedicine & Public Health602BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2022Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the PresentDennis TylerRace & Ethnicity411New York University PressNew York University Press
2013Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the ReformationRobert BartlettReligion411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2006The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell DiseaseKeith Wailoo, Stephen PembertonMedicine & Public Health411Johns Hopkins University PressJohns Hopkins University Press
1995The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle AgesJoan CaddenMedicine & Public Health411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
1993Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black ChurchSamuel FreedmanReligion411HarperCollinsHarperCollins
1992Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United StatesTheda SkocpolPolitics & Government411Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2024WWe’re AloneEdwidge DanticatSociety & Culture401Graywolf PressGraywolf Press
2023Betty Friedan: Magnificent DisruptorRachel ShteirBiography401Yale University PressYale University Press
2022TThe FacemakerLindsey FitzharrisMedicine & Public Health401DuttonPenguin Random House
2020The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost StoryKate SummerscaleSociety & Culture401BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2016In a Different Key: The Story of AutismJohn Donvan, Caren ZuckerMedicine & Public Health401CrownPenguin Random House
2015On Immunity: An InoculationEula BissMedicine & Public Health401Graywolf PressGraywolf Press
2014Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small HoursMaria MutchMemoir & Autobiography401Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2011Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It MattersRichard RumeltBusiness & Economics401Profile BooksProfile Books
2010Arrival City: The Final Migration and our Next WorldDoug SaundersSociety & Culture401Knopf CanadaPenguin Random House Canada
2009The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled SonIan BrownMemoir & Autobiography401Random House CanadaPenguin Random House Canada
2008Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind ControlDominic StreatfeildWar & Military401PicadorMacmillan
2002Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceAtul GawandeMedicine & Public Health401Metropolitan BooksMacmillan
2001States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and SufferingStanley CohenSociety & Culture401UnknownNot yet sourced
1993A Different PersonJames MerrillMemoir & Autobiography401UnknownNot yet sourced
1988Borrowed Time: An AIDS MemoirPaul MonetteMemoir & Autobiography401UnknownNot yet sourced
1985The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the WorldElaine ScarrySociety & Culture401Oxford University PressOxford University Press
1981Psychoanalysis: The Impossible ProfessionJanet MalcolmMedicine & Public Health401Vintage BooksPenguin Random House
1976The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human MalaiseDorothy DinnersteinGender & Sexuality401HarperCollinsHarperCollins
1972Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe PoeDaniel HoffmanArts & Criticism401UnknownNot yet sourced
1970The Body Has a HeadGustav EcksteinMedicine & Public Health401Bantam BooksPenguin Random House
2020Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making SpaceAmanda LeducSociety & Culture401UnknownNot yet sourced
2017The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating DiseaseMeredith WadmanMedicine & Public Health402Penguin PressPenguin Random House
2019Asperger’s ChildrenEdith ShefferHistory201W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2019Working With NatureJeremy PursegloveNature & Environment201Profile BooksProfile Books
2002The Real Mrs MiniverYsenda Maxtone GrahamBiography201John MurrayHachette UK
1997Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. StearnsSociety & Culture201New York University PressNew York University Press
2018There Will Be No Miracles HereCasey GeraldMemoir & Autobiography201UnknownNot yet sourced
2011Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's SchoolsSteven BrillSociety & Culture201Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2017Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and InequalityMeryl AlperTechnology001MIT PressMIT Press
2014The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every DayDavid J. HandScience001Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan

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All awards · Topic: Disability & Difference · Sorted by score · 48 books · filtered