The Incredible Human Body List

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

Daniel Smith’s MONKEY MIND is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence.

In the tradition of THE GLASS CASTLE, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning prose and original art, THE MEMORY PALACE captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and family’s capacity for forgiveness.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells became one of medicine’s most important tools. This phenomenal bestseller about the collision of ethics, race, and medicine is intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down.

In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine, and a total failure. AS NATURE MADE HIM tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man and one family's amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.