20 Books on Health and Well-being to Add to Your Reading List

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Here is a List of 20 Books on Health and Well-being to Add to Your Reading List

Check your local library, they should have access to a number of these books.

  1. Cervero, F. (2012). Understanding Pain: Exploring The Perception Of Pain. The MIT Press.

  2. Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Penguin Books.

  3. Hargrove, T. (2014). A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving with More Skill and Less Pain. Better Movement.

  4. Hargrove, T. (2019). Playing With Movement: How to Explore the Many Dimensions of Physical Health and Performance. Better Movement.

  5. Hayes, B. (2022). Sweat: A History of Exercise. Bloomsbury Publishing.

  6. Killam, K. (2024). Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier. Little Brown Book Group.

  7. Lieberman, D. (2014). The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. Vintage.

  8. Lieberman, D. (2021). Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. Pantheon.

  9. Linden, D. (2015). Touch: The Science of the Hand, Heart, and Mind. Penguin Books.

  10. Marchant, J. (2016). Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body. Broadway Books.

  11. Mlodinow, L. (2015). The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos. Pantheon.

  12. Mlodinow, L. (2022). Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking. Pantheon

  13. Murthy, V. (2020). Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. Harper Wave.

  14. Mukherjee, S. (2022). The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human. Scribner.

  15. Nester, J. (2020). Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. Riverhead Books.

  16. Pessoa, L. (2022). The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together. The MIT Press.

  17. Pontzer, H. (2025). Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us. Avery.

  18. Seth, A. (2021). Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Dutton.

  19. Tracey, K. (2025). The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes. Avery.

  20. Theise, N. (2023). Notes on complexity: A scientific theory of connection, consciousness, and being. Spiegel & Grau LLC.