The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a popular science book that was on all the recommended reading lists a couple years ago (in the US).
The 19th century monographs are fun as objects but sometimes tough going to read through. (I went to the natural history association's library clean-out sale, I have a BUnch of weird old natural history books.
...I could just limit it to, say books that are owned by more than 500 people on LibraryThing; that would at least up the odds that people would have heard of one or two of them.
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The 19th century monographs are fun as objects but sometimes tough going to read through. (I went to the natural history association's library clean-out sale, I have a BUnch of weird old natural history books.
...I could just limit it to, say books that are owned by more than 500 people on LibraryThing; that would at least up the odds that people would have heard of one or two of them.