9 must-read health books like Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

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Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

By: Emma Goldberg

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo…

If you liked the health plot in Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

By: Sam Kean

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."

-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

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2. Return to Paradise

By: James A. Michener

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Mass Market Paperback

James A. Michener, the master of historical fiction, revisits the scenes of his first great work, T… read more

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3. Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors

By: Paul A. Ruggieri

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

By: David Stuart MacLean

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." --Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Rita Moreno: A Memoir

By: Rita Moreno

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. Terrible Virtue

By: Ellen Feldman

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Paris Wifeand Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the… read more

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7. Being Jazz

By: Jazz Jennings

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Audio CD

Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gen… read more

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8. Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

By: Stephen Westaby

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remar… read more

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9. A Dog Called Hope: The wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him

By: Damien Lewis , None

3.79

Format: 160 pages,

When special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a months-long coma, he was told he'd never walk… read more

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10. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend

By: Susan Orlean

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Allegedly found in the ruins of a bombed-out dog kennel in France during World War I, then brought … read more

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11. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

By: Paul A. Offit

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

By: Jason B. Rosenthal

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. E.R. Nurses

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

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16. No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

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18. Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room

By: Paul Seward

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A boy is pulled from a river and brought back to life: Will he be the same child he was? A priest o… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Heart: A History

By: Sandeep Jauhar

4.07

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence. It’s so bound up with our deepest fee… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For even if the heart is not the seat of the emotions, it is highly responsive to them."

-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History

"Continuous blood flow is antithetical to the way that humans, pulsatile beings, evolved. Though continuous flow can keep us alive, it alters ours physiology in idiosyncratic and unpredictable ways."

-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History

"In many ways, the heart does resemble a house. It is divided into multiple chambers, separated by doors. The walls have a characteristic texture. The house is old, designed over many millennia. Hidde…"

-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History

"Traditional" Japanese immigrants had coronary disease rates in line with their homeland counterparts. "Westernised" immigrants had a prevalence that was at least 3 times higher. "Retention of Japanes…"

-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History

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21. House on Endless Waters

By: Emuna Elon

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel ab… read more

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  • audiobook
"In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside herself and continued, long after the war ended, living outside herself and observi…"

-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters

"Two thousand five hundred. According to the documents Yoel has studied, that was the number of Jewish children hidden by Christian families during the war. Two thousand five hundred Jewish children, …"

-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters

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22. Breaking Through: My Life in Science

By: Katalin Karikó

4.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Accidental Veterinarian: Tales from a Pet Practice

By: Philipp Schott

3.94

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Cats, dogs, people ― funny and heartbreaking stories from a pet veterinarian With insight and humor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

By: Frank Huyler

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

By: Emma Goldberg

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo… read more

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  • cultural
  • relationships
  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival

By: Donald Antrim

3.79

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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28. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids by Travis Rieder

29. In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids

By: Travis Rieder

4.17

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

A bioethicist’s eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal—a harrowing person… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South by Issac J. Bailey

31. My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South

By: Issac J. Bailey

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A rare first-person account that combines a journalist's skilled reporting with the raw emotion of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

22 best-selling audiobook books like Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

Transform Your Habits

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

Sam Kean

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

David Stuart MacLean

4.19

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

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18 Top audiobook books like In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids by Travis Rieder

Transform Your Habits

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal

4.09

Transform Your Habits

In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

Hillel Levin , James Keene

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Fox & I

Catherine Raven

3.68

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