The Mind's Eye tells the stories of people whose ability to navigate the world visually and to communicate with others is compromised. There is Lilian, a professional pianist who loses her ability to read music and eventually even to recognize everyday objects; and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who, although she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, reinvents herself as a great gossip and social butterfly; and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. There are (surprisingly many) people who have face-blindness; some of them cannot even recognize their own spouse or children. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Finally, Dr. Sacks looks at how blind people may use an astonishing array of other senses to "see" the world. (October 26, 2010)

Edited by Natalie Angier. More great science writing, including Dr. Sacks's essay, "Journey Inside the Brain."

Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert. Full of great essays, including a lovely one by Mark A. Smith on animalcules and other small matters. It's right next to Dr. Sacks's essay on Darwin and "The Meaning of Flowers."

In Musicophilia, Sacks examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people, from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; from people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds for everything but music.

(Source: Barnes&Noble.com)

Oaxaca Journal is Sacks's spellbinding account of his recent trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca. Bringing together Sacks' passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his penetrating curiosity and trammeling eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is a captivating evocation of a place, it's plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.

(From: National Geographic Spring 2002 Catalog)

In Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Dr. Sacks looks back at his childhhod in wartime London, revealing his love of chemistry as the source of his life long scientific curiosity.

Awakenings -- which inspired the major motion picture -- is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.

An Antropologist on Mars profiles seven neurologically impaired patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense has been destroyed in an accident but who finds new creative power in black and white.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a collection of 20 fascinating true clinical tales - of individuals stricken with astonishing neurological disorders - that present a humorous and touching investigation into the human mind.

In The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks describes his journey to the islands of the Pacific, recounting a stay on an island inhabited by an isolated colorblind community and his investigation into a baffling neurodegenerative paralysis on Guam.