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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Ten Days in a Mad-House, Nellie Bly
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic, Jennifer Lee Carrell
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South Edited by William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever, David M. Friedman
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, James H. Jones
The Right to Privacy, Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
In The Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, Daniel Kevles
The John McPhee Reader, John McPhee and William Howarth
Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, Darby Penny, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler, and Robert Whitaker
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy, Russ Rymer
Coal River, Michael Shnayerson
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet A. Washington
The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War, Eileen Welsome