Books like This Brilliant Darkness by Jeff Sharlet

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

A small‑town pastor and a skeptical reporter uncover a New Age conspiracy that threatens humanity, forcing them into the battle between unseen spiritual forces as described in Ephesians 6:12.

Twelve‑year‑old Crow, raised alone on Massachusetts’s Elizabeth Islands, discovers secrets about her past after a mysterious fire appears across the water, setting her on a perilous journey of truth and adventure.

A concise history of key experimental practices in psychology, focusing on the development and use of Skinner's Box and related conditioning research.

At 25, television producer Richard M. Cohen is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and later faces colon cancer, yet he writes a hopeful memoir about resilience, family, and living fully amid chronic illness.

A compelling exploration of mental health, gender, and institutionalization, blending journalism and psychological insights with the author's harrowing personal story of living as a man.

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

Paints a critical picture of the prevailing thought, culture and attitudes of the present-day West—which the author calls “The Postmodern Opportunity”—including our cultural biases, our embrace of victimhood, our often fearful attitudes toward one another and toward the Church and religion in general. Reprint.

"The Newly Born Woman" by Hélène Cixous explores feminist psychoanalysis, the politics of language, and sex differences, revealing how women’s writing reshapes gendered discourse.

"In Stiffed, Susan Faludi turns her powers of reporting and analysis to the problems of men and comes up with a revolutionary diagnosis. Men's problems aren't the product of biology, or of such trumped-up enemies as feminism and affirmative action, but of a modern social tragedy. By listening to men's stories in their own voices, by taking them on their own terms, Faludi uncovers a buried history - the untold story of how America made a glittering set of promises to the men of the baby-boom generation...and proceeded to break every one of them."--BOOK JACKET. "What keeps men from revolting against their circumstances? Faludi's explanation for that mystery opens up the possibility that men's coming rebellion could emancipate both sexes from their true and mutual enemy, a cultural force that constrains us all. Stiffed is a major reassessment of what it is to be a man in modern America."--BOOK JACKET.

Sherry Turkle explores how technology reshapes empathy and human connection, drawing on her work with psychologists, women in tech, and social insights.