Books like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs draws on more than forty interviews with the pioneer and the perspectives of family, friends, competitors, and colleagues, portraying his relentless drive, meticulous perfectionism, and profound influence on personal computing, animation, music, phones, tablets and digital publishing.

Between the World and Me is a memoir‑essay in letter form, where Ta‑Nehisi Coates addresses his teenage son about the history, violence, and ongoing reality of being Black in America.

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

A chilling memoir detailing Solomon Northup's harrowing experience as a captive on a Louisiana plantation for twelve years, from 1841 to 1853.

Maya Angelou's heart journey into the heart of New York City, Harlem, and Martin Luther King's movement, filled with unforgettable vignettes and poignant moments of her tumultuous life and relationships.

"S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes, leading research scientists in the fields of aging and biodemography, separate fact from fiction in this new book. Medical technology already allows us to prevent and overcome a dizzying array of illnesses that once were inevitably debilitating or deadly, and researchers are delving even further into the roots of aging, exploring patterns of damage and repair down to the cellular level and launching into the incredibly exciting but also frightening biomedical frontier of genetic engineering.". "The Quest for Immortality makes clear the difference between science and pseudoscience. Even more important, the authors carefully distinguish between the foolish quest simply to prolong life and the true dream we all share: to live long lives while remaining independent and in good health.". "Olshansky and Carnes lift from our shoulders the burdens of vitamin vigilance, lifestyle crazes, and other fallacious schemes that some would have us believe are necessary for a long, healthy life. In their prescription for the twenty-first century, they offer us a positive - and accurate - understanding of health, disease, and aging that will maximize both the length and the quality of our lives."--BOOK JACKET.

The Bright Hour is a moving memoir in which poet Nina Riggs chronicles her life with terminal breast cancer, exploring how to live fully amid death, illness, and the emotional landscape of being a mother and patient.

The true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II.

A sweeping historical account of U.S. government experiments on human subjects in nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare from World War II to the present, examining policy, ethics, and secrecy.

A gripping memoir that follows Dr. Damon Tweedy as he confronts racism, bias, and health disparities while navigating medical school and practice, revealing how race shapes both patient care and physicians’ experiences.