15 Best biography books like Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic by Roopa Farooki

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Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

By: Roopa Farooki

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Cov…

"Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence."

-Roopa Farooki, Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

"Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence."

-Roopa Farooki, Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

"Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence."

-Roopa Farooki, Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

If you liked the biography plot in Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic by Roopa Farooki , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By: Henry Marsh

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more

Similar categories in Henry Marsh's Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery book and Roopa Farooki's Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction

2. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

By: Richard Panek , Temple Grandin

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate W… read more

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3. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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5. 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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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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6. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy    Joseph

7. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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10. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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11. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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12. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

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13. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Laura Cumming

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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14. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

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"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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15. Companion Piece

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more

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16. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. The Fell

By: Sarah Moss

3.63

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more

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"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."

-Sarah Moss, The Fell

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18. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

By: Henry Marsh

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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19. These Days

By: Lucy Caldwell

3.71

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more

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20. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By: Lucy Mangan

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

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21. Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

By: Sara Gibbs

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neithe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic by Rachel    Clarke

22. Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic

By: Rachel Clarke

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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23. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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24. The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP

By: Amir Khan

4.43

Format: 288 pages, ebook

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER60 hours a week240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the su… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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25. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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26. Black Teacher

By: Beryl Gilroy

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Introduced by Bernardine Evaristo, this unforgettable memoir of a trailblazing Caribbean woman who … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery by Joanna  Cannon

27. Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery

By: Joanna Cannon

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Jo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of Life, Death and Biscuits by Anthea Allen

28. Life, Death and Biscuits

By: Anthea Allen

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line o… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Head First: How the Mind Heals the Body by Alastair Santhouse

29. Head First: How the Mind Heals the Body

By: Alastair Santhouse

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Lori Gottlieb and Henry Marsh, a distinguished psychiatrist examines his own pr… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Hungover Games: A True Story by Sophie Heawood

30. The Hungover Games: A True Story

By: Sophie Heawood

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This "funny, dark, and true" (Caitlin Moran) memoir is Bridget Jones's Diary for the Fleabag What … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story book and Roopa Farooki's Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"She is the smallest person I have ever held and the biggest thing I have ever seen."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"I am so used to being a rebel, or is it a narcissist, that I don’t know how to have a partner."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"Meanwhile, I felt a strong urge to be honest everywhere and about everything, which is probably why I drank."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

Cover of Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic by Roopa Farooki

31. Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

By: Roopa Farooki

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Cov… read more

Similar categories in Roopa Farooki's Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic book and Roopa Farooki's Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
"Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence."

-Roopa Farooki, Everything Is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic

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4.36

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Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

Paul A. Offit

4.20

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4.20

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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4.11

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