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| 2005 | Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life | Nick Lane | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2004 | The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness | Karen Armstrong | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2002 | Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection | Deborah Blum | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Berkley | Penguin Random House |
| 2002 | The Madness of Adam and Eve: Did Schizophrenia Shape Humanity? | David Horrobin | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2001 | The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body | Sherwin B. Nuland | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2001 | Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood | Oliver Sacks | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Macmillan | Macmillan |
| 1999 | A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud | Karl Sabbagh | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1999 | Malignant Sadness | Lewis Wolpert | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Faber & Faber | Faber & Faber |
| 1999 | Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind | V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Harper Perennial | HarperCollins |
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| 1995 | The Dying of the Trees | Charles E. Little | Nature & Environment | 4 | 0 | 1 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 1994 | My Own Country: A Doctor's Story | Abraham Verghese | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
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| 1988 | Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society | Daniel Callahan | Medicine & Public Health | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
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