1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.
2. House of God* by Samuel Shem.
3. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande.
4. The Intern Blues by Robert Marion.
5. The Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman.
6. My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese.
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
8. Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar.
9. White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School by Ellen Rothman.
10. This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine by Eliza Lo Chin.
11. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
12. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perri Klass.
13. Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality by Pauline Chen.
14. Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School by Melvin Konner.
15. The Real Grey’s Anatomy: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Real Lives of Surgical Residents by Andrew Holz.
16. Something for the Pain: One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER by Paul Austin.
17. On Call: A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency by Emily Transue.
18. One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine by Brendan Reilly.
19. Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross.
20. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
21. Direct Red: A Surgeon’s View of Her Life-or-Death Profession by Gabriel Weston.
22. Hospital by Julie Salamon.
23. Kill as Few Patients as Possible by Oscar London.
24. Cutting For Stone* by Abraham Verghese.
25. How We Die by Sherwin Nuland.
26. How We Live by Sherwin Nuland.
27. The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine’s Front Line ** by Seamus O’Mahony.
28. The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness by Jerome Groopman.
29. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.
30. Wit* by Margaret Edson.
31. Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer.
32. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas.
33. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
34. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman.
35. The Human Side of Cancer: Living With Hope, Coping With Uncertainty by Jimmie Holland.
36. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick, Jr.
37. Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life by Ira Byock.
38. A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life by Lauren Marks.
39. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
40. How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America by Otis Webb Brawley.
41. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon by Michael Collins.
42. I Knew A Woman: Four Women Patients and Their Female Caregiver by Cortney Davis.
43. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder.
44. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri.
45. God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet.
46. This Won’t Hurt a Bit (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood by Michelle Au.
47. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy.
48. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink.
49.Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown.
50. The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. “Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. African American Studies.
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