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Books like An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds new creative power in black & white; & others.
Liked An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks? Here's what readers who loved it picked up next.
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- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison (1995) · 4.03★
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (2002) · 4.23★
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- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2005) · 3.89★
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2003) · 4.05★
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1966) · 4.06★
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1997) · 4★
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (1997) · 4.01★
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) · 3.97★