Tanya Byron's six best books

Tanya Byron is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality. She is a frequent public speaker and has appeared on countless British radio programs. She writes a weekly column for The Times (UK) and a monthly column for Good Housekeeping (UK). She advises on international policy relating to young people, mental health, and education, and is currently working in China to develop services for children and their families. Byron's new book is The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist.

One of her six best books, as shared at the Daily Express:

THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT by Oliver Sacks

Sacks is a neurologist describing case histories of patients. He's a brilliant author and clinician who brings people with the most bizarre behaviour alive and explains why they were behaving the way they were.

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The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat is among Gabriel Weston's five top books about the body and Lisa Genova's six favorite books about science & literature.

--Marshal Zeringue