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Books like Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about intelligence and identity, loneliness, medical ethics. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks · Psychology
Oliver Sacks was a neurologist who thought in stories.
Read the summary → - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · Science
In 1951, a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Read the summary → - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Health
Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's investigation into why modern medicine is so bad at helping people die well.
Read the summary → - When Breath Becomes Air
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Paul Kalanithi · Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air is Paul Kalanithi's account of his life before and after being diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at 36, while completing his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
Read the summary → - A Fire Upon the Deep
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Vernor Vinge · Science fiction
The galaxy in A Fire Upon the Deep is zoned by the speed of thought: near the galactic core, the Slowness, where intelligence itself is limited; farther out, the Unthinking Depths; and further still, the Transcend, where entities of incomprehensible intelligence emerge and occasionally intervene in the affairs of the merely civilized.
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