13 Top nonfiction books like A Luxury Called Health: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Art, the Science and the Trickery of Medicine by Kavery Nambisan

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A Luxury Called Health: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Art, the Science and the Trickery of Medicine

By: Kavery Nambisan

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The miracles and tragedies of life, the compassion and cruelties of humanity are nowhere more visib…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Luxury Called Health: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Art, the Science and the Trickery of Medicine by Kavery Nambisan , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. A Man Called Ove

By: Fredrik Backman , Henning Koch

4.38

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young famil… read more

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"Han var en man av svart och vitt. Och hon var färg. All hans färg"

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

"I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at."

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

"He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced."

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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2. I Too Had a Dream

By: Verghese Kurien

3.85

Format: 220 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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4. The Palace of Illusions

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more

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5. How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

By: Kaavya Viswanathan

3.33

Format: None pages,

Opal Mehta is a young woman with a laser focus: getting into Harvard. Since her birth, Amal and Mee… read more

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6. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

By: Austin Kleon

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In his New York Timesbestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock the… read more

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Cover of Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven

7. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

By: William H. McRaven

4.00

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Listening Length: 1 hour and 53 minutes If you want to change the world, start off by making you… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

By: Brian Tracy

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The Key to Success is Action"

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Do anything, but get started."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

9. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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10. The Art of Thinking Clearly

By: Rolf Dobelli

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Whole Numbers and Half Truths

By: Rukmini S.

4.22

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

13. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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  • nonfiction
"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Cover of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

14. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.54

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Cover of My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra  Nooyi

15. My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

By: Indra Nooyi

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of Peps… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. Kaikeyi

By: Vaishnavi Patel

4.19

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more

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"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."

-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

Cover of Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar’s Villages by M.R. Sharan

17. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar’s Villages

By: M.R. Sharan

4.28

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

Sanjay Sahni was living an ‘araam zindagi’ in Delhi, working as an electrician, until a chance enco… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. History's Angel

By: Anjum Hasan

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of a middle-aged man in contemporary India discovering that neither his life nor his coun… read more

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19. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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20. THE GREATEST ODIA STORIES EVER TOLD

By: Leelawati Mohapatra

3.79

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told showcases Odia’s greatest storytellers ranging from literary ma… read more

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21. The Brass Notebook: A Memoir of Feminism and Freedom

By: Devaki Jain

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist, with introductory piec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. A Luxury Called Health: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Art, the Science and the Trickery of Medicine

By: Kavery Nambisan

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The miracles and tragedies of life, the compassion and cruelties of humanity are nowhere more visib… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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