Musicophilia vs The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Which Should You Read?

Musicophilia Oliver Sacks · 2007 ★★★★☆ 3.9 483 pages · ≈ 8 h 57 m · Moderate

“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species - billions of people- playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patters, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call "music.”

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But…

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks · 1980 ★★★★☆ 4.0 317 pages · ≈ 5 h 52 m · Moderate

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological…