Farha Library Gold Humanism Collection #2
1. 
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
by:
Suleika Jaouad
4.42 avg rating — 116,290 ratings 2. 
Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference
by:
Stephen Trzeciak
4.04 avg rating — 590 ratings 
4. 
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by:
Matt Richtel
4.07 avg rating — 5,809 ratings 5. 
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
by:
Azra Raza
4.07 avg rating — 1,285 ratings 6. 
Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match
by:
Vanessa Grubbs
4.04 avg rating — 107 ratings 7. 
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
by:
Suzanne Koven
3.89 avg rating — 1,743 ratings 8. 
Womb With a View: Tales from the Delivery, Emergency and Operating Rooms 4.26 avg rating — 53 ratings
12. 
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating — 87,500 ratings 13. 
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
4.11 avg rating — 1,250 ratings 
15. 
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by:
Henry Marsh
4.25 avg rating — 41,371 ratings 16. 
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,607 ratings 17. 
Movement Disorders: Unforgettable Cases and Lessons from the Bedside it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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One Base at a Time: How I Survived PTSD and Found My Field of Dreams
by:
David R. Mellor
4.31 avg rating — 78 ratings 
22. 
Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
by:
Daniel G. Amen
3.89 avg rating — 829 ratings 23. 
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression
by:
Kathy Cronkite
3.86 avg rating — 130 ratings 24. 
Stop Physician Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn't Working
by:
Dike Drummond
4.26 avg rating — 57 ratings 25. 
Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
by:
Zack McDermott
4.20 avg rating — 3,605 ratings 26. 
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
by:
Anna Lembke
4.01 avg rating — 1,318 ratings 27. 
The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else
by:
Holly B. Rogers
4.08 avg rating — 706 ratings 28. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,434 ratings 29. 
50 Years in the OR: True Stories of Life, Loss, and Laughter While Giving Anesthesia 4.31 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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The Soul of the Physician: Doctors Speaking About Passion, Resilience, and Hope
by:
Linda G. Henry
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 35. 
The Resilient Physician: Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and Their Medical Organizations
by:
Wayne M. Sotile
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 36. 
Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
by:
Nathan Belofsky
3.34 avg rating — 791 ratings 37. 
Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER
by:
Paul Austin
3.89 avg rating — 2,325 ratings 38. 
Searching for the Best Medicine: The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient: The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient
by:
Arthur Bank
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 
40. 
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
by:
Janice P. Nimura
3.59 avg rating — 5,902 ratings 
42. 
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years 4.16 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
43. 
Living and Dying in Brick City: Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.
by:
Sampson Davis
3.88 avg rating — 1,218 ratings 
45. 
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
by:
James R. Doty
4.22 avg rating — 25,782 ratings 46. 
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by:
Atul Gawande
4.28 avg rating — 51,632 ratings 47. 
The Year They Tried to Kill Me : Surviving a Surgical Internship Even If the Patients Don't 4.31 avg rating — 873 ratings
50. 
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
by:
Sandeep Jauhar
3.61 avg rating — 1,471 ratings 51. 
Everything I Learned in Medical School: Besides All the Book Stuff 3.83 avg rating — 449 ratings
52. 
Confessions of an American Doctor: A true story of greed, ego and loss of ethics
by:
Max Kepler
4.07 avg rating — 619 ratings 53. 
Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
by:
David I. Levy
4.20 avg rating — 1,914 ratings 
55. 
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
by:
Matt McCarthy
4.12 avg rating — 7,452 ratings 56. 
Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine
by:
Robert Marion
4.20 avg rating — 283 ratings 
58. 
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,185 ratings
59. 
Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
by:
Paul A. Ruggieri
3.75 avg rating — 2,273 ratings 60. 
A Life That Matters: Transforming Faces, Renewing Lives
by:
Kenneth Salyer
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 61. 
Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality
by:
Richard Selzer
3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings 62. 
Ten Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders
by:
Alfred Sommer
4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings 63. 
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
by:
Damon Tweedy
4.18 avg rating — 5,391 ratings 
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Life After Medical School: 32 Doctors Describe How They Shaped Their Medical Careers
by:
Leonard Laster
3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings 67. 
The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
by:
Robert Marion
3.86 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 
69. 
Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery
by:
Joanna Cannon
4.24 avg rating — 2,278 ratings 70. 
71. 
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
by:
Katrina Firlik
3.79 avg rating — 3,914 ratings 
73. 
You What?!: Humorous Stories, Cautionary Tales, and Unexpected Insights About A Career in Medicine
by:
John Chase
3.65 avg rating — 336 ratings 74. 
77. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,841 ratings 78. 
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
by:
Susan Sontag
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,369 ratings 
