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Books like Awakenings
A profoundly moving exploration of consciousness, illness, and the fragile miracle of being awake. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Awakenings.
- somber
- awe-inspiring
- poignant
- haunting
- 01
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks · 2004
A deeply empathetic and beautifully written exploration of the bizarre ways the human brain can misfire, revealing the fragile essence of who we are.
- 02
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
A compassionate and wondrous journey into the mind's capacity to conjure realities that aren't there.
- 03
The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge
An awe-inspiring exploration of human resilience that will fundamentally change how you view your own mind's potential.
- 04
Livewired
David Eagleman
A thrilling, metaphor-rich surf along the leading edge of neuroscience that will completely change how you view your own mind.
- 05
Brain on fire
Susannah Cahalan
A terrifying, real-life medical thriller about the sudden unraveling of a mind and the desperate race to piece it back together.
- 06
An unquiet mind
Kay Redfield Jamison · 1995
A fiercely articulate descent into the terrifying highs and crushing lows of a brilliant, fractured mind.
- 07
The brain
David Eagleman
A mind-expanding journey into the dark, silent fortress of the skull to discover how biological matter constructs our entire reality.
- 08
Do No Harm
Marsh, Henry
A brutally honest, high-stakes meditation on the fragility of human life and the heavy burden of holding it in your hands.
- 09
Molecules of emotion
Candace B. Pert · 1997
A passionate, paradigm-shifting journey into the microscopic architecture of human feeling.
- 10
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
A fascinating, slightly terrifying wake-up call about the biological superpower we take for granted every single night.
- 11
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
A devastatingly intimate diary of a mind blooming into brilliance before inevitably withering away.
- 12
Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind
V. S. Ramachandran
A mind-bending and deeply empathetic exploration of the bizarre neurological glitches that reveal how our brains construct reality.
