Health
🥇 01
WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
🖋️ Paul Kalanithi
🏢 Random House
A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
🥈 02
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK
🖋️ Mark Manson
🏢 HarperOne/HarperCollins
A blogger argues that we should stop striving to be positive at all times and instead become better at handling adversity.
🥉 03
THE WHOLE30 COOKBOOK
🖋️ Melissa Hartwig
🏢 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Recipes for the Whole30 program of nonprocessed whole foods and no grains, dairy or sugar.
04
THE LOSE YOUR BELLY DIET
🖋️ Travis Stork
🏢 Ghost Mountain
The doctor and talk-show host promotes an eating plan that includes improving "gut health."
05
THE GENE
🖋️ Siddhartha Mukherjee
🏢 Scribner
An overview of the history and science of genetics by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies.”
06
MEDICAL MEDIUM LIFE-CHANGING FOODS
🖋️ Anthony William
🏢 Hay House
Unconventional advice about 50 foods, the symptoms and conditions they can help relieve, and recipes.
07
GREEN SMOOTHIES FOR LIFE
🖋️ J J Smith
🏢 Atria
A 30-day plan for weight loss that includes recipes for meals and special treats.
08
THE ZERO SUGAR DIET
🖋️ David Zinczenko with Stephen Perrine
🏢 Ballantine
A 14-day plan for cutting out all sugar and using protein and fiber to slow the absorption of carbohydrates.
09
10-DAY GREEN SMOOTHIE CLEANSE
🖋️ J J Smith
🏢 Atria
Beverages of combined leafy greens and fruits are the basis for a weight loss and health plan.
10
BEING MORTAL
🖋️ Atul Gawande
🏢 Metropolitan/Holt
The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.