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12 books with a reading profile close to Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders. Clear-cut; an easy read.

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Christopher McDougall begins with a simple question about his own chronic foot pain and ends up in Mexico’s Copper Canyons searching for the Tarahumara Indians.
2

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

by Samin Nosrat

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Samin Nosrat identifies four fundamental pillars that dictate whether food tastes balanced or dull.
3

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman moves to Paris, she notices that French children sit quietly in restaurants, sleep through the night at two months old, and eat braised leeks without complaint.
4

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Barbara Kingsolver moves her family from Arizona to a farm in southern Appalachia to live as locavores for one year.
5

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Atul Gawande examines the specific behaviors that allow medical professionals to bridge the gap between mediocre and superior performance.
6

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible

In 2009, Edwin Rist, a twenty-year-old flute student and competitive fly-tier, broke into the British Museum of Natural History at Tring.
7

The Sneetches and Other Stories

by Dr. Seuss

Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible

The star-bellied Sneetches believe they are superior to their plain-bellied neighbors, leading to a rigid social hierarchy on the beach.
8

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

by Jason Schreier

Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Jason Schreier investigates the volatile manufacturing process of modern video games, chronicling the chaotic development cycles of titles like Pillars of Eternity, Stardew Valley, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
9

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that memorable ideas share six specific traits, organized under the SUCCES acronym: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories.
10

Sooley

by John Grisham

Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible

In the civil war-torn landscape of South Sudan, seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleyman receives an invitation to play basketball for a scouting team in the United States.
11

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Joshua Foer chronicles his evolution from a skeptical journalist covering the United States Memory Championship to the unlikely winner of the same competition one year later.
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

James Nestor investigates the biological decline of human breathing and its impact on modern health.

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