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Body
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Best Medical Books: Essential Reading on Medicine and the Body
The best medical books — from When Breath Becomes Air and The Emperor of All Maladies to Being Mortal and The Body. Medicine, death, and what it means to heal.
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Books Like The Vegetarian: Transgression, the Body, and Quiet Violence
Han Kang's triptych about a woman who stops eating meat — and what this decision does to the people around her — is unlike almost anything else in contemporary fiction. These books share its unsettling precision, its focus on the body as battleground, and its willingness to follow transgression to its end.
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