21 Top nonfiction books like Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre by Liz O'Riordan

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Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

By: Liz O'Riordan

4.50

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental cha…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre by Liz O'Riordan , here is a list of 21 books like this:

1. Confessions of a School Nurse (The Confessions Series)

By: Michael Alexander

4.05

Format: 224 pages,

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2. Over Sharing

By: Jane Fallon

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The queen of revenge comedy is back with a hilariously sharp and refreshing new novel Can you li… read more

Similar categories in Jane Fallon's Over Sharing book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • audiobook
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3. 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 Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live

By: Kris Hallenga

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in … read more

Similar categories in Kris Hallenga's Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert

By: Peter Faulding

3.59

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Faulding's What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. Quite

By: Claudia Winkleman

4.04

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Funny, moving and truthful… Quite Claudia Winkleman’s warmth, humour, no-holds-barred attitude a… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Winkleman's Quite book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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8. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

Similar categories in Marian Keyes's My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7) book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • audiobook
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9. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more

Similar categories in Benji Waterhouse's You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. My Not So Perfect Summer

By: Phoebe MacLeod

4.13

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Autumn’s summer is off to a smashing start… sort of. Earlier this year, Autumn’s life looked she … read more

Similar categories in Phoebe MacLeod's My Not So Perfect Summer book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • audiobook
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11. 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 Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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12. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more

Similar categories in Maria Smilios's The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

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13. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

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14. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

By: The Secret Barrister

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."

-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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15. Stitched Up

By: Shahed Yousaf

4.18

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more

Similar categories in Shahed Yousaf's Stitched Up book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Evidence Against You

By: Gillian McAllister

3.87

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

It's the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English has every reason to feel conflicte… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's The Evidence Against You book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • audiobook
Cover of The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot

17. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

Similar categories in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun: A Memoir book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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18. Valley Verified

By: Kyla Zhao

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When a fashion writer dives headfirst into the cutthroat Silicon Valley tech world, her future thre… read more

Similar categories in Kyla Zhao's Valley Verified book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • audiobook
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19. The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery

By: Max Skittle

3.54

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful first-hand account of working for the NHS, both before and during the COVID-19 epidemic.… read more

Similar categories in Max Skittle's The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism by Kate Garraway

20. The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism

By: Kate Garraway

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

AS SEEN ON ITV'S DOCUMENTARY KATE DEREK'S STORY*** The Sunday Times Bestseller ***'Intimate, tende… read more

Similar categories in Kate Garraway's The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
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21. One More Croissant for the Road

By: Felicity Cloake

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions o… read more

Similar categories in Felicity Cloake's One More Croissant for the Road book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"God gave us the boulangerie for a reason and that reason is breakfast."

-Felicity Cloake, One More Croissant for the Road

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22. Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

By: Jim Down

4.36

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stor… read more

Similar categories in Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist by Rhona Morrison

23. I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist

By: Rhona Morrison

3.82

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrison on an often funny, and… read more

Similar categories in Rhona Morrison's I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
Cover of Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King

24. Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

By: Evie King

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘I’ve a body out the back for you...' Imagine having that sentence said to you. And then imagine… read more

Similar categories in Evie King's Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • audiobook
Cover of Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful by Jolyon Maugham

26. Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

By: Jolyon Maugham

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

All too often our legal system feels like it only works for people who already have power and privi… read more

Similar categories in Jolyon Maugham's Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
Cover of Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police by Nicky Perfect

27. Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police

By: Nicky Perfect

4.06

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch dir… read more

Similar categories in Nicky Perfect's Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

By: Liz O'Riordan

4.50

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental cha… read more

Similar categories in Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Too Busy for Love by Phoebe MacLeod

29. Too Busy for Love

By: Phoebe MacLeod

4.16

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Phoebe MacLeod is back with a BRAND NEW hilarious rom com, perfect for fans of Sophie Ranald and So… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe MacLeod's Too Busy for Love book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

Cover of The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control by Trisha Greenhalgh

30. The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control

By: Trisha Greenhalgh

4.68

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The book you can trust to support you at every stage of your treatment—and beyond Professor Trisha… read more

Similar categories in Trisha Greenhalgh's The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control book and Liz O'Riordan's Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

  • nonfiction
  • health
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31. Reconnecting: Tales of Adventure, Travel and Life

By: George Mahood

4.39

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

In this delightful collection of hilarious and heartwarming tales, George Mahood will leave you bot… read more

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Jane Fallon

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

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Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live

Kris Hallenga

4.59

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3.89

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