Books like The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
12 books with a reading profile close to The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
history, narrative
Don and Mimi Galvin raised twelve children in mid-century Colorado, only to see six of their sons develop schizophrenia.
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A History of Autism
history, narrative
Adam Feinstein traces the evolution of autism from its earliest clinical observations to modern neurological research.
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3
Mudbound
history, narrative
In 1946, Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a primitive cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta.
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
history, narrative
Sebastian Junger examines the psychological rift between modern individualistic society and the ancestral need for communal identity.
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Caleb's Crossing
history, narrative
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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The Architect's Apprentice
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Jahan arrives in sixteenth-century Constantinople as a boy from India, bringing a white elephant named Chota as a gift for Sultan Suleiman.
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
history, narrative
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black, known as Wash, is a field hand on a brutal Barbados sugar plantation until he is selected as a laboratory assistant for Christopher Wilde.
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The 19th Wife
history, narrative
This novel weaves together two timelines to examine the history and modern reality of polygamy in the American West.
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
narrative, psychology
Oliver Sacks investigates the neurological mechanisms that process melody, rhythm, and pitch by documenting patients with extreme musical conditions.
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At Night All Blood is Black
by David Diop
history, narrative
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese Tirailleur fighting for France in the trenches of World War I.
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Skeletons at the Feast
history, narrative
In January 1945, as the Red Army advances toward East Prussia, the Emmerich family, who run an estate, decide to flee west.
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The Great Divide
history, narrative
The story reconstructs the construction of the Panama Canal through the intersecting lives of marginalized laborers and local residents.
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