20 must-read audiobook books like The Masters of Medicine by Andrew Lam

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The Masters of Medicine

By: Andrew Lam

4.52

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discover…

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Cover of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande, None

1. 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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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales

2. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

By: Laurence Gonzales

4.00

Format: None pages,

In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Jared Diamond

3.93

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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4. The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

By: Daniel Silva

3.89

Format: 432 pages,

When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli int… read more

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5. Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century

By: Kevin Fong

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where n… read more

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Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

6. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin

7. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

By: Talia Lavin

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, sma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

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8. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

By: Lynne Olson

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

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9. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

10. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

11. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Sara Manning Peskin

12. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By: Sara Manning Peskin

4.21

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more

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  • history
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott

13. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

By: David Nott

4.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

Cover of Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail

14. Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

By: Theresa MacPhail

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cuttin… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

15. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

16. 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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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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17. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It

By: Marty Makary

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack

18. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

19. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow

20. Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery

By: Ira Rutkow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Ti… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

21. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

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  • science
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames

22. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

By: Juliet Grames

3.95

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In this stunning debut novel, a young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters’ estrangemen… read more

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  • audiobook
"It's like the Americans say. They stole their bed, now they can lie in it."

-Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

"This was the trouble with emigration - it dismantled the patriarchy. Because really, what did Assunta, or any woman, need a husband for, when she did every goddamn thing herself?"

-Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Cover of Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

23. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

By: Candace Fleming

4.15

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations by Arnold van de Laar

24. Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

By: Arnold van de Laar

4.15

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the wi… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution by Frederick Appelbaum M.D.

25. Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution

By: Frederick Appelbaum M.D.

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the disea… read more

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  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America by David Stout

26. The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

By: David Stout

3.49

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing true history of the kidnapping open-season that terrorized America The Great Dep… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey by Vincent M. Figueredo

27. The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey

By: Vincent M. Figueredo

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the bod… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz

28. Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

By: Theodore H. Schwartz

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a mus… read more

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  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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29. The Masters of Medicine

By: Andrew Lam

4.52

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discover… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Lam's The Masters of Medicine book and Andrew Lam's The Masters of Medicine

  • science
  • history
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary

30. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

By: Marty Makary

4.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Pr… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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31. Sisters in Science

By: Olivia Campbell

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

17 must-read history books like The Masters of Medicine by Andrew Lam

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

3.93

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Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Talia Lavin

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

Lynne Olson

4.26

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Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage

Hazel Rowley

4.05

Transform Your Habits

How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

Cody Cassidy

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

4.12

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The Facemaker

Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

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