Books that introduce inner workings of brain/but not too technical:

• Incognito: The secret lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
• The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
• The Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield
• The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
• Tips on learning neuroanatomy

‘Classic’ textbooks that appeared on all my course lists

• Principles of Neural Science, Kandel et al.
• Neuroscience, Purves et al.
• Principles of Neurobiology, Linquin Luo
• Fundamental Neuroscience, Squire et al.
• Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases, Hal Blumenfeld

Clinical neuroscience specific textbooks

• Clinical Neuroscience, Paul Johns
• Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook (I declare bias for this one as Queen Square is my academic home)

Popular science books (roughly categorised) Neuroscience

• All books by Oliver Sacks
• Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung
• In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s by Joseph Jebelli
• Into The Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen
• Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee
• The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
• The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon
• The Idea of The Brain: a History by Matthew Cobb

Neurology

• Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Suzanne O’Sullivan
• It’s All In Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan
• Just One More Question: Stories from a Life in Neurology by Niall Tubridy
• Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper & Brian Burrell

Neurosurgery

• Admissions by Henry Marsh
• Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
• Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon by Rahul Jandial

Patient perspective

• Brain On Fire by Susannah Cahalan
• My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
• Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means To Survive by Ben Platts-Mills

That I’ve been recommended, but not yet read (all categories)

• A History of the Brain: from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience by Andrew P. Wickens
• An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman
• Beyond the Zonules of Zinn by David Brainbridge
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric Kandel
• Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
• Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse by Richard Rapport
• Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience by Michael Gazzaniga
• The Master and His Emissary by Iain Mcgilchrist
• The Nocturnal Brain by Guy Leschziner
• The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurostransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate by Elliot Valenstein