5 Top medicine books like A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician by Chris Luke

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A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

By: Chris Luke

3.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope.Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a sit…

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1. How to Be a Woman

By: Caitlin Moran

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't ex… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Girls in Love (Girls, #1)

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie thinks she is un… read more

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3. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance

By: Michelle Burford , Mary Lou Retton , None

3.83

Format: None pages,

Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her… read more

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5. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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6. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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7. 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

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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9. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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10. My Name Is Why

By: Lemn Sissay

4.29

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more

Similar categories in Lemn Sissay's My Name Is Why book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. 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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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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13. The Trial

By: Jo Spain

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more

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14. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Aisling Ever After

By: Emer McLysaght

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more

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16. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Nothing But The Truth book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Gas Man

By: Colin Black

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

10… 9… 8… 7… 6… That’s about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begi… read more

Similar categories in Colin Black's Gas Man book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. My So Called Mum: Child abuse, Love & My Great Britain

By: Joseph Kane

4.32

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Writing this memoir has to be one of the hardest things I have ever achieved. Out of respect for th… read more

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19. Jump

By: Daniella Moyles

3.88

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Jump is a memoir about growing up, burning out, bad decisions, reckless adventures, love and loss. … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Moyles's Jump book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives

By: Heather Morris

3.44

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

In Stories of Hope, Heather Morris takes us on an inspirational journey through some of the definin… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
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21. A Light That Never Goes Out: A Memoir

By: Keelin Shanley

4.43

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

When Keelin Shanley passed away aged 51, it was hard to grasp that someone so filled with life was … read more

Similar categories in Keelin Shanley's A Light That Never Goes Out: A Memoir book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
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22. The Boy in the Cellar

By: Stephen Smith

4.41

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Smith's The Boy in the Cellar book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices

By: Keith Earls

4.35

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

  ★ AN POST IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER! ★ Fight Or My Life, My Choices is the autob… read more

Similar categories in Keith Earls's Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve

24. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

By: Thomas Geve

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Geve's The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Duffy and Son

By: Damien Owens

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more

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26. Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

By: Rebecca Myers

3.97

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he want… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Myers's Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist. book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

By: Deborah Rodriguez

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Kabul, August 2021 Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee shop. After eight years away, she'… read more

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28. A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

By: Chris Luke

3.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope.Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a sit… read more

Similar categories in Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. The Truth About Love: How to really fall in love with your life and everyone in it

By: Conor Creighton

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We are trained from the youngest of ages to imagine that love is a force outside ourselves, that if… read more

Similar categories in Conor Creighton's The Truth About Love: How to really fall in love with your life and everyone in it book and Chris Luke's A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

  • nonfiction
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30. Marathon Man: My Life, My Father's Stroke and Running 35 Marathons in 35 Days

By: Alan Corcoran

4.48

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner; BIBA Book Award Winner; IPPY Book Award Winner; ABF Best Book … read more

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19 Best nonfiction books like A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician by Chris Luke

Transform Your Habits

How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Secrets in the Cellar

John Glatt

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

4.48

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Transform Your Habits

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Brianna Wiest

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

Maisie Hill

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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Henry Dimbleby

4.39

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