The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
By: Reinhard Friedl
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
3. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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5. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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6. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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7. 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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8. Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
By: Henry Marsh
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in… read more
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9. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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10. 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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11. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
12. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
13. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
By: William Landay
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the chi… read more
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"When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty."-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
"In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me."-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
"What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?"-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
"Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never a…"-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
14. Alias Emma (Alias Emma, #1)
By: Ava Glass
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this “high-octane spy thriller in the Ian Fleming mold” ( CrimeReads ) , a British spy has twelv… read more
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15. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
By: Michael Lewis
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more
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16. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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17. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
By: Delia Ephron
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more
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18. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
4.09
Format: 300 pages, ebook
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting med… read more
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"To move foward, you have to leave the past behind"-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"there’s nothing worse than seeing pity radiating from the eyes of a former lover."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"Unutmanın varlığı asla kanıtlanmamıştır. Tek bildiğimiz, bazı şeylerin istediğimiz zaman aklımıza gelmemesidir."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
19. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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20. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
21. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
22. Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
By: Suzanne Koven
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in … read more
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"Who will I be when I have fewer patients? When I have no patients at all? It's often noted that "practice" as it relates to medicine has two meanings: the act of caring for patients and the doctor's …"-Suzanne Koven, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
23. Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
By: Alice Robb
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas de… read more
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"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and convert…"-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
24. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By: Paul Craddock
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?And what role did a sausage… read more
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25. The Intern
By: Michele Campbell
3.80
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic judge in this timely and thrilli… read more
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26. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
27. Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
By: Michelle Moran
4.30
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dram… read more
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28. The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
By: Lydia Reeder
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but mothe… read more
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29. Dead Money
By: Jakob Kerr
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Silicon Valley fixer investigates a billionaire founder's death while pursuing her own agenda in … read more
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30. The Business Trip
By: Jessie Garcia
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"A stunning and accomplished debut, with hugely relatable characters and an addictive storyline tha… read more
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31. The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
By: Reinhard Friedl
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm , Reinhard Friedl's The Source of All Things is a hear… read more
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