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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalSheri Fink201336 pts5 wins6 listsCrownMedicine & Public HealthMental Health & Psychology+2
Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam Quinones201516 pts1 wins3 listsBloomsburyMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+2
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United StatesKenneth T. Jackson198714 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
A History of American Magazines, Volume IVFrank Luther Mott193914 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+3
Tennyson: The Unquiet HeartRobert Bernard Martin198012 pts3 wins3 listsOxford University PressBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the BronxAdrian Nicole LeBlanc200312 pts2 wins3 listsScribnerSociety & CultureDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeLizabeth Cohen202010 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Consumer’s Good Chemical GuideJohn Emsley199410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
In the Sleep RoomAnne Collins198810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The United States and the Origins of the Cold WarJohn Lewis Gaddis196810 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
PParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillan200310 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
DDeath in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid EpidemicEric Eyre20208 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious BiasJessica Nordell20218 pts0 wins3 listsMacmillanRace & EthnicityMental Health & Psychology+3
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and MethSam Quinones20216 pts0 wins2 listsBloomsburyMedicine & Public HealthDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+2
Waves of Hope: Personal Stories of ECTGeorge Kirov20254 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressMedicine & Public HealthMental Health & Psychology+3
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarLien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston,, Pierre Asselin20244 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic ScienceBenjamin Breen20244 pts1 wins1 listsGrand Central PublishingScienceClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron CurtainSonja K. Pieck20234 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressNature & EnvironmentImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My CountryPatricia Evangelista20234 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseJournalism & ReportageDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Untangling Blackness in Greek AntiquitySarah F. Derbew20224 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+3
The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment EngagementAndrew Hadler, Stephen Sutton,, Lars Osterberg20204 pts1 wins1 listsWileyMedicine & Public HealthMental Health & Psychology+3
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative HistorySteven T. Katz20194 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and PracticeS. Nassir Ghaemi20184 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to AmericaNathaniel Frank20174 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentLgbtq History & Life+3
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaElizabeth Hinton20164 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressTrue Crime & JusticeDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a DiseaseMarc Lewis, PhD20154 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsScienceDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic JourneyDeborah Cramer20154 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressNature & EnvironmentDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and SocietyCarl Hart20134 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie ParkerStanley Crouch20134 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+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
Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial EcosystemDaniel Schneider20114 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern DistrictPeter Moskos20084 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressMemoir & AutobiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy CreditJames Scurlock20074 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerBusiness & EconomicsDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Age of Mass Migration: Causes & Economic ImpactTimothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson19984 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBusiness & EconomicsDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Rivers of the United States, Volume I, ESTUARIESRuth Patrick19944 pts1 wins1 listsWileyScienceRegional & Local History+1
Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical AgeHugh D. Crone19864 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
The Printing Press As An Agent of Change, Volumes I and IIElizabeth L. Eisenstein19804 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
The Lysenko AffairDavid Joravsky19714 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949S.C.M. Paine20124 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban PoorWilliam Julius Wilson19974 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the BorderlandsDan Werb20194 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyJournalism & ReportageDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Great PretenderSusannah Cahalan20194 pts0 wins1 listsGrand Central PublishingMedicine & Public HealthImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Children of PrometheusChristopher Wills19984 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
The Pritikin Program for Diet and ExerciseNathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady19794 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
MMatters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A UserGriffith Edwards20054 pts0 wins1 listsAllen LaneSociety & CultureDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+2
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American RacismEve L. Ewing20254 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseRace & EthnicityDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of ChinaJulia Lovell20124 pts0 wins2 listsPicadorHistoryDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+2
Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal that Altered the AIDS CrisisCara McGoogan20232 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US ArmyCharles Barber20222 pts0 wins1 listsGrand Central PublishingMedicine & Public HealthNatural History & Animals+3
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a MovementJodi Kantor, Megan Twohey20192 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressJournalism & ReportageGender & Feminism+3
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three ActsChris McGreal20182 pts0 wins1 listsPublicAffairsMedicine & Public HealthDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our MindsLauren Slater20182 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
I’m Not With the BandSylvia Patterson20162 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Irrepressible: A Jazz Age Life of Henrietta BinghamEmily Bingham20152 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David WojnarowiczCynthia Carr20122 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyBiographyDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
On the MoveOliver Sacks20152 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorMemoir & AutobiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own StoryRick Bragg20142 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Johnny Cash: The LifeRobert Hilburn20142 pts0 wins1 listsBack Bay BooksBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes through History, Science, and One Family TreeLizzie Stark20142 pts0 wins1 listsChicago Review PressMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of RaceNeda Maghbouleh20170 pts0 wins1 listsStanford University PressRace & EthnicityImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of SpecializationW. Bruce Fye20150 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of DiseaseMichael B. Bracken20130 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Coming of Age on ZoloftKatherine Sharpe20120 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, & the Creative ProcessRichard M. Berlin, MD20080 pts0 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressMedicine & Public HealthBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her AbuserDavid P. Celani19940 pts0 wins1 listsColumbia University PressMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary ImmigrationRichard Alba, Victor Nee20030 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
2013Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalSheri FinkMedicine & Public Health3656CrownPenguin Random House
2015Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam QuinonesMedicine & Public Health1613BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
1987Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United StatesKenneth T. JacksonHistory1422Oxford University PressOxford University Press
1939A History of American Magazines, Volume IVFrank Luther MottHistory1412Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
1980Tennyson: The Unquiet HeartRobert Bernard MartinBiography1233Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2003Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the BronxAdrian Nicole LeBlancSociety & Culture1223ScribnerSimon & Schuster
2020Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeLizabeth CohenPolitics & Government1011Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan
1994The Consumer’s Good Chemical GuideJohn EmsleyScience1011Oxford University PressOxford University Press
1988In the Sleep RoomAnne CollinsMedicine & Public Health1011UnknownNot yet sourced
1968The United States and the Origins of the Cold WarJohn Lewis GaddisHistory1011Columbia University PressColumbia University Press
2003PParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillanHistory1011UnknownNot yet sourced
2020DDeath in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid EpidemicEric EyreTrue Crime & Justice822UnknownSimon & Schuster - Scribner
2021The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious BiasJessica NordellRace & Ethnicity803MacmillanMacmillan
2021The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and MethSam QuinonesMedicine & Public Health602BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2025Waves of Hope: Personal Stories of ECTGeorge KirovMedicine & Public Health411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2024The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarLien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston,, Pierre AsselinHistory411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2024Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic ScienceBenjamin BreenScience411Grand Central PublishingHachette Book Group
2023Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron CurtainSonja K. PieckNature & Environment411MIT PressMIT Press
2023Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My CountryPatricia EvangelistaJournalism & Reportage411Random HousePenguin Random House
2022Untangling Blackness in Greek AntiquitySarah F. DerbewRace & Ethnicity411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2020The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment EngagementAndrew Hadler, Stephen Sutton,, Lars OsterbergMedicine & Public Health411WileyWiley
2019The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative HistorySteven T. KatzHistory411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2018Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and PracticeS. Nassir GhaemiMedicine & Public Health411Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2017Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to AmericaNathaniel FrankPolitics & Government411Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2016From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaElizabeth HintonTrue Crime & Justice411Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2015The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a DiseaseMarc Lewis, PhDScience411PublicAffairsHachette Book Group
2015The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic JourneyDeborah CramerNature & Environment411Yale University PressYale University Press
2013High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and SocietyCarl HartMemoir & Autobiography411HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2013Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie ParkerStanley CrouchBiography411HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2013Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the ReformationRobert BartlettReligion411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2011Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial EcosystemDaniel SchneiderScience411MIT PressMIT Press
2008Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern DistrictPeter MoskosMemoir & Autobiography411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2007Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy CreditJames ScurlockBusiness & Economics411ScribnerSimon & Schuster
1998The Age of Mass Migration: Causes & Economic ImpactTimothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. WilliamsonBusiness & Economics411Oxford University PressOxford University Press
1994Rivers of the United States, Volume I, ESTUARIESRuth PatrickScience411WileyWiley
1986Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical AgeHugh D. CroneScience411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
1980The Printing Press As An Agent of Change, Volumes I and IIElizabeth L. EisensteinHistory411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
1971The Lysenko AffairDavid JoravskyScience411University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2012The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949S.C.M. PaineHistory411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
1997When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban PoorWilliam Julius WilsonRace & Ethnicity411KnopfPenguin Random House
2019City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the BorderlandsDan WerbJournalism & Reportage401BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2019The Great PretenderSusannah CahalanMedicine & Public Health401Grand Central PublishingHachette Book Group
1998Children of PrometheusChristopher WillsScience401UnknownNot yet sourced
1979The Pritikin Program for Diet and ExerciseNathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGradyMedicine & Public Health401UnknownNot yet sourced
2005MMatters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A UserGriffith EdwardsSociety & Culture401Allen LanePenguin Random House
2025Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American RacismEve L. EwingRace & Ethnicity402Random HousePenguin Random House
2012The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of ChinaJulia LovellHistory402PicadorMacmillan
2023Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal that Altered the AIDS CrisisCara McGooganMedicine & Public Health201UnknownNot yet sourced
2022In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US ArmyCharles BarberMedicine & Public Health201Grand Central PublishingHachette Book Group
2019She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a MovementJodi Kantor, Megan TwoheyJournalism & Reportage201Penguin PressPenguin Random House
2018American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three ActsChris McGrealMedicine & Public Health201PublicAffairsHachette Book Group
2018Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our MindsLauren SlaterScience201UnknownNot yet sourced
2016I’m Not With the BandSylvia PattersonMemoir & Autobiography201UnknownNot yet sourced
2015Irrepressible: A Jazz Age Life of Henrietta BinghamEmily BinghamBiography201Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan
2012Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David WojnarowiczCynthia CarrBiography201BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2015On the MoveOliver SacksMemoir & Autobiography201PicadorMacmillan
2014Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own StoryRick BraggBiography201UnknownNot yet sourced
2014Johnny Cash: The LifeRobert HilburnBiography201Back Bay BooksHachette Book Group
2014Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes through History, Science, and One Family TreeLizzie StarkMedicine & Public Health201Chicago Review PressChicago Review Press
2017The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of RaceNeda MaghboulehRace & Ethnicity001Stanford University PressStanford University Press
2015Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of SpecializationW. Bruce FyeMedicine & Public Health001Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2013Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of DiseaseMichael B. BrackenMedicine & Public Health001Yale University PressYale University Press
2012Coming of Age on ZoloftKatherine SharpeMedicine & Public Health001HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2008Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, & the Creative ProcessRichard M. Berlin, MDMedicine & Public Health001Johns Hopkins University PressJohns Hopkins University Press
1994The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her AbuserDavid P. CelaniMedicine & Public Health001Columbia University PressColumbia University Press
2003Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary ImmigrationRichard Alba, Victor NeeRace & Ethnicity001Harvard University PressHarvard University Press

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