Vintage Sacks (Vintage Readers Literature Series) Book

Neurology is poetry. Memoir is science. Case study is narrative. Sacks is amazing. The story of the island of the colorblind was like reading Dr. Doolittle, but unlike Doolittle, Dr. Sacks is simply an observer whose own interactions have some impact, but it's the impact on Sacks himself that he writes about. He manages to turn a dozen or more other neurological conditions into marvelous short stories that just happen to be nonfiction, and then the slightly more academic essay on sign language and deafness is nothing short of revelatory.

It only gets four stars because, in the end, it is (just barely) an academic work, and as such, has the occasional moment where I waited impatiently for the narrative to pick back up so that the science became once again stay-up-at-night compelling.