Top 100 books about medicine

Most popular fiction and non-fiction books about medicine on Goodreads

1. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
6. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
7. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
8. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
9. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
11. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
12. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
13. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
15. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
16. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
17. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
19. The Plague by Albert Camus
20. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
21. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
22. Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children by Susan Tarr
23. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
24. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
25. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
26. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
27. Animals Don’t Blush by David R. Gross
28. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
29. The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr
30. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
31. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
32. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
33. The House of God by Samuel Shem
34. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
35. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
36. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
37. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
38. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
39. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
40. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
41. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
42. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
43. Blindness by José Saramago
44. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
45. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
46. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
47. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
48. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
49. On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
50. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
51. Coma by Robin Cook
52. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
53. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
54. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
55. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
56. Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon
57. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
58. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
59. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
60. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
61. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
62. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
63. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
64. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
65. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
66. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) by Agatha Christie
67. How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
68. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
69. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
70. The God Complex by Chris Titus
71. Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1) by Ariana Franklin
72. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
73. Wit by Margaret Edson
74. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
75. How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
76. Doctors by Erich Segal
77. Saturday by Ian McEwan
78. My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
79. Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders
80. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
81. Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray
82. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
83. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
84. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
85. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
86. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
87. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1) by Pat Barker
88. MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1) by Richard Hooker
89. The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueché
90. The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1) by Tess Gerritsen
91. The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
92. The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1) by Noah Gordon
93. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek
94. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
95. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata
96. Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
97. Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
98. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
99. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
100. Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh #6) by P.D. James

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