The Scientific Image by Bas C. Van FraassenThe Dialogical Roots of Deduction by Catarina Dutilh NovaesScience without Numbers by Hartry FieldChance in the World by Carl HoeferFoundations of Space-Time Theories by Michael  Friedman
Lakatos Award Winners
40 books — 2 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLongitude by Dava Sobel
History of Science
484 books — 289 voters

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van GoghThe Story of Art by E.H. GombrichThe Shock of the New by Robert HughesThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneThe Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Best Art and Art History Books
709 books — 311 voters
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.The Audible Past by Jonathan SterneNoise by Jacques AttaliThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise Uprising by Michael Denning
Music, Listening, and Modernity
73 books — 12 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Social Justice Education
352 books — 86 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Depression and Mental Illness
545 books — 477 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyI Have to Call Someone Mama by Tammy Eady WalkerEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeMore To Life by Jacob Lasher
Best Books On Mental Health
260 books — 212 voters

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,411 books — 1,330 voters
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontNadja by André BretonThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonIlluminations by Arthur RimbaudStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
125 books — 103 voters


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