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