Read-alikes and related books

Books like Hallucinations

Across Social Scientists & Psychologists, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, and Medical — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks.

Top related books to Hallucinations

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

Wired for Love A Neuroscientist’s Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

Stephanie Cacioppo

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

The Nocturnal Brain Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

Dr. Guy Leschziner

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

Admissions Life as a Brain Surgeon

Henry Marsh

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

Madness and Memory The Discovery of Prions–a New Biological Principle of Disease

Stanley B. Prusiner

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

Nervous Essays on Heritage and Healing

Jen Soriano

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

Tapeworms, Human Entozoa Their Sources, Nature, And Treatment (1866)

Thomas Spencer Cobbold

Themes: Social Scientists & Psychologists • Life Sciences • Medical

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

The Headache The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction–And a Search for Relief

Tom Zeller Jr.

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#10

The Age of Diagnosis Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far — Suzanne O’Sullivan

Suzanne O'Sullivan

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#11

Life on a Knife’s Edge A Brain Surgeon’s Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival

Rahul Jandial

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#12

Two Heads Where Two Neuroscientists Explore How Our Brains Work with Other Brains

Uta Frith

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#13

Gifted Hands The Ben Carson Story

Ben Carson

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#14

Brain on Fire My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#15

Clinical Trial An ALS Memoir of Science, Hope, and Love

Robert K. Ranum

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#16

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain A Life in Neuroscience

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#17

Override My Quest to Go Beyond Brain Training and Take Control of My Mind

Caroline Williams

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#18

Permanent Present Tense The Man with No Memory, and what He Taught the World

Suzanne Corkin

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#19

How the Brain Lost Its Mind Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness

Allan H. Ropper

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#20

LSD, My Problem Child And, Insights/outlooks

Albert Hofmann

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#21

Primate Laterality Current Behavioral Evidence of Primate Asymmetries

Jeannette P. Ward

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#22

The Molecular Biology of Physarum polycephalum

William F. Dove

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#23

Neurotoxicology, Third Edition

G. Jean Harry

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

#24

Biology of Aggression

Randy J. Nelson

Themes: Neuroscience • Life Sciences • Medical

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Social Scientists & Psychologists, Neuroscience, Life Sciences — the same threads that run through Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks. Among the authors featured: Oliver Sacks, Stephanie Cacioppo, Dr. Guy Leschziner, Henry Marsh, and others.