Seeing Voices

Seeing Voices

By
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks
1989 • 204 pages

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155 books

20th Century

disappearer
Gabriela
Against Interpretation
Waiting for Godot
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Confessions of a Mask
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange

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61 books

Nonfiction

disappearer
Gabriela
All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
Alan Turing: the enigma
If This Is A Man / The Truce
Autobiography
Images: My Life in Film
The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
Because We Say So

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93 books

Non Fiction

gerikatz
gerikatz
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Library Book
The Pawprints of History
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
What Fresh Hell Is This?
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

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816 books

Unread

Courtreader
Court
1984
A Clockwork Orange
Franny and Zooey
The Fall
Catch-22
Cat's Cradle
Sweet Thursday

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248 books

Favorite Authors

Courtreader
Court
Eating Animals
Everything Is Illuminated
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet
The Tao of Pooh
The Polysyllabic Spree
Les Misérables

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157 books

Psych Neuro

Courtreader
Court
The Personality Puzzle
Health Psychology
The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations
The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain: Explorations in Visual Cognition
Psychology and Life
Bright not broken
Bipolar Disorder Demystified: Mastering the Tightrope of Manic Depression

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347 books

New Asap

milkroyale
Melita
Seven Empty Houses
The Ecliptic
Sometimes I Lie
Ordinary Grace
This Tender Land
Bright Young Women
Victory City

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217 books

Non Fiction

milkroyale
Melita
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Running With Scissors
Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality, Identity, and the Self
The Consolations Of Philosophy
And I Alone Survived

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45 books

Deaf

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Spiritomb
Future Girl
A Quiet Kind of Thunder
El Deafo
Women and Deafness: Double Visions
Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Sign for Home

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101 books

Narrative Nonfiction

spiritomb
Spiritomb
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Fun home
El Deafo
Night Flying Woman
Adrift
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Rebent Sinner

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95 books

Neuroscience

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Spiritomb
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Neuroexistentialism
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders
Mind of Its Own

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156 books

Non Fiction

katebrarian
Kate
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The numerati
Quiet, Please
The Psychopath Test

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507 books

Dude Writer

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Kate
Contact
Great Expectations
Rule 34
Children of Dune
Der menschliche Makel
Love in the Time of Cholera
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope

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5 books

Deaf Culture

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Kate
My Heart Glow
Seeing Voices
Six
Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

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28 books

Owned

emanzo
Eman
Her Fearful Symmetry
The Starless Sea
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
لأنك الله: رحلة إلى السماء السابعة
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Stars
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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42 books

British Author

katebrarian
Kate
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
Terra
On the Steel Breeze
Stir-Fry
The Man Who Rained
Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
Dr. Siri und seine Toten