The Greatest Books of All Time on Health

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
147 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italian Italian
364 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
679 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett 1771 British English
784 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
1168 The Diaries Franz Kafka 1948 Czech German
1475 Lettres de madame de Sévigné Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné 1671 French French
1896 Smoking and Health Surgeon General 1964 American English
2750 My Fight for Birth Control Margaret Sanger 1931 American English
2748 Physica Hildegard of Bingen 1150 German Latin
2842 10:04 Ben Lerner 2014 American English
3041 South Riding Winifred Holtby 1936 British English
3048 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3637 The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis 1902 Danish English
3637 The Art Of Prolonging Life Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland 1842 German German
3637 The Sexual Revolution Wilhelm Reich 1936 German German
4668 Beethoven's Letters Ludwig van Beethoven 1866 German German
4750 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
5039 Woman Natalie Angier 1999 American English
5269 Under The Feet Of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995 American English
5349 How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis 1890 Danish English
5413 Bad Science Ben Goldacre 2008 British English
5434 A Journey Round My Skull Frigyes Karinthy 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
5652 The Unfortunate Experiment Sandra Coney 1988 New Zealand English
5862 The Grasmere Journal Dorothy Wordsworth 1897 British English
5938 The Turning Point Fritjof Capra 1982 American English
6381 Married Love Marie Stopes 1918 British English
6416 Florence Nightingale Cecil Woodham-Smith 1950 British English
6526 The Private Life of Chairman Mao Li Zhi-Sui 1994 Chinese English
6657 Organon Of The Rational Art Of Healing Samuel Hahnemann 1989 German German
6767 The American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine E. Beecher 1869 American English
7024 Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Robert Sapolsky 1994 American English
7215 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
8019 The Story Of A Heart Rachel Clarke 2024 Unknown English
8056 Cutting The Rose Efua Doorkenoo 1994 Ghanaian English
8075 The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields 2008 American English
8100 How Not To Die Michael Greger, Gene Stone 2015 American English
8394 Junk Food Monkeys Robert Sapolsky 1997 American Unknown
8812 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8942 Letters From Egypt Florence Nightingale 1987 British English
9053 The Crossover Kwame Alexander 2014 American English
9191 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9191 Irritable Hearts Mac McClelland 2015 Unknown English
9562 아픔이 길이 되려면 김승섭 2017 Korean Korean
10406 The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt 2024 American English
10450 The Poison Squad Deborah Blum 2018 American English
10888 Everything Is Tuberculosis John Green 2025 Unknown English
11388 This Common Secret Susan Wicklund 2007 Unknown English
11543 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11805 Passages Gail Sheehy 1976 American English
12083 Aids And Its Metaphors Susan Sontag 1989 American English
12109 Valley Of Forgetting Jennie Erin Smith 2025 American English
12148 The Secret Family David Bodanis 1997 Unknown English
12250 Needles Andie Dominick 1998 American English
12303 In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee 2025 American English
12318 Replaceable You Mary Roach 2025 American English
12325 The Truth About Chernobyl Grigory Medvedev 1991 Russian Russian
12501 Come As You Are Emily Nagoski 2015 American English
12498 No More Tears Gardiner Harris 2025 American English
12514 Doc Susie Virginia Cornell 1991 American English
12622 Unshrunk Laura Delano 2025 American English
12654 On Muscle Bonnie Tsui 2025 American English
12744 Unfit Parent Jessica Slice Unknown English
12869 Factfulness Hans Rosling 2018 Swedish English
12892 Articulate Rachel Kolb 2025 American English
12897 We Should All Be Birds Brian Buckbee, Carol Ann Fitzgerald 2025 Unknown English
12924 They Poisoned The World Mariah Blake 2025 American English
12958 The Age Of Diagnosis Suzanne O'Sullivan 2025 Irish English
13007 The Quiet Ear Raymond Antrobus British English
13044 Food Intelligence Julia Belluz, Kevin Hall 2025 Multiple English
13098 How To Be Well Amy Larocca 2025 American English
13113 The Running Ground Nicholas Thompson 2025 Unknown English
13257 The Great Escape Angus Deaton 2013 British English
13358 Burnout Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski 2019 American English
13358 Period Power Maisie Hill 2019 British English
13360 The Diary of Fanny Burney Fanny Burney 1768 British English
13533 A Life In Letters Anton Chekhov 1973 Russian Russian
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
14010 The Deep Places Ross Douthat 2021 American English
14093 The Road To Wellville T. Coraghessan Boyle 1993 American English
14122 Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 2017 American English
14346 Let The Record Show Sarah Schulman 2021 American English
14384 Numbers Don't Lie Vaclav Smil 2021 Czech English
14389 Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit Adelle Davis 1954 American English
14434 The Making Of A Tropical Disease Randall M. Packard 2007 American English
14498 Showing Up For Life Bill Gates 2009 American English
14553 Poor Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2011 American English
14553 Getting Better Charles Kenny 2011 American English
14598 The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond 2012 American English
14629 Should We Eat Meat? Vaclav Smil 2013 Czech English
14679 Epic Measures Jeremy N. Smith 2015 American English
14830 Nine Pints Rose George 2018 British English
14984 The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson 2009 British English
14984 Gulp Mary Roach 2013 American English
14984 The Body Yasuo Yuasa 1987 Japanese Japanese
14984 Death Without Weeping Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1992 American English
14984 Eve Cat Bohannon 2023 Unknown English
15590 Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex David Reuben 1969 American English
15902 Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation Alfred Adler 1907 Austrian German
15902 Function of the Orgasm Wilhelm Reich 1927 Austrian German
15902 Happiness in Marriage Margaret Sanger 1926 American English
15902 Science And Health Mary Baker Eddy 1875 American English
15902 The Autobiography Of Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger 1938 American English
15902 Letters Of John Keats John Keats 1848 British English
15902 Light On Yoga B. K. S. Iyengar 1966 Indian English
15902 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
16620 Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha Satyananda Saraswati 1969 Indian English
17126 A Civil Action Jonathan Harr 1995 American English
17126 Living With Risk the British Medical Association Board of Science 2003 British English
17126 The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide John Emsley 1994 British English
17126 And Away… Bob Mortimer 2021 British English
17126 Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking Allen Carr 1985 British English
17126 Tall Tales And Wee Stories Bill Connolly 2019 Scottish English
17126 The Normal Heart Larry Kramer 1985 American English
17126 A Wind In The Door Madeleine L'Engle 1973 American English
17126 The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde 1980 American English
17126 The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg 2012 American English
17126 Slow Getting Up Nate Jackson 2013 American English
17126 The Woman With A Worm In Her Head Pamela Nagami 2001 American English
17126 Microlife That Helps Us Steve Parker 2005 British English