Best Books for Medical Students
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by:
Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating — 210,875 ratings 
5. 
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by:
Atul Gawande
4.28 avg rating — 51,627 ratings 
7. 
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 — 87,593 ratings 8. 
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by:
Henry Marsh
4.25 avg rating — 41,358 ratings 11. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,787 ratings 
13. 
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating — 87,482 ratings 
16. 
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by:
Adam Kay
4.40 avg rating — 316,891 ratings 
19. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,579 ratings 
23. 
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by:
Sheri Fink
3.93 avg rating — 39,324 ratings 24. 
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years 4.16 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by:
Pauline W. Chen
3.88 avg rating — 3,358 ratings 26. 
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The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
by:
Robert Marion
3.86 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 
31. 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,742 ratings 32. 
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
by:
Emily R. Transue
3.90 avg rating — 2,347 ratings 33. 
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
by:
Matt McCarthy
4.12 avg rating — 7,450 ratings 34. 
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
by:
Lisa Sanders
3.95 avg rating — 8,730 ratings 35. 
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
by:
James Orbinski
4.33 avg rating — 2,248 ratings 
39. 
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
by:
Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,512 ratings 
40. 
The Bloated Belly Whisperer: See Results Within a Week and Tame Digestive Distress Once and for All 4.08 avg rating — 968 ratings
45. 
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by:
Sam Quinones
4.23 avg rating — 31,636 ratings 46. 
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by:
Elyn R. Saks
4.32 avg rating — 22,257 ratings 47. 
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity 4.32 avg rating — 7,400 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
by:
Giulia Enders
4.08 avg rating — 53,719 ratings 51. 
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
by:
Danielle Ofri
4.19 avg rating — 2,527 ratings 
54. 
One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine
by:
Brendan Reilly
4.17 avg rating — 1,953 ratings 
56. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 
59. 
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 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 60. 
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
by:
Rana Awdish
4.33 avg rating — 7,589 ratings 61. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,017 ratings 62. 
Surgeon's Story - Inside OR-1 With One of America's Top Pediatric Surgeons
by:
Mark Oristano
4.50 avg rating — 159 ratings 62. 
Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
by:
Stephen Fabes
4.15 avg rating — 543 ratings 64. 
64. 
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
by:
Paul Craddock
3.89 avg rating — 694 ratings 66. 
67. 
What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival
by:
Amy Boesky
3.81 avg rating — 429 ratings 67. 
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating — 255,066 ratings
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon 4.29 avg rating — 988 ratings
70. 
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
by:
Melvin Konner
3.83 avg rating — 697 ratings 
72. 
Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine
by:
David H. Newman
3.98 avg rating — 313 ratings 73. 
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student
by:
Perri Klass
3.90 avg rating — 536 ratings 74. 
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by:
Michel Foucault
3.95 avg rating — 2,462 ratings 75. 
Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
by:
Jack Coulehan
4.07 avg rating — 68 ratings 
78. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,864 ratings 79. 
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
by:
David Dosa
4.05 avg rating — 7,625 ratings 80. 
This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood
by:
Michelle Au
3.98 avg rating — 1,107 ratings 80. 
Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician's Search for True Healing
by:
Neil Spector
4.35 avg rating — 225 ratings 80. 
80. 
Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad
by:
Saqib Noor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings 80. 
80. 
The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
by:
Tracie White
4.10 avg rating — 572 ratings 
86. 
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
by:
Bruce Greyson
4.18 avg rating — 4,787 ratings 86. 
Butchered by "Healthcare": What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care
by:
Robert A. Yoho
4.50 avg rating — 107 ratings 90. 
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life
by:
Ira Byock
4.35 avg rating — 1,308 ratings 90. 
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine
by:
Eliza Lo Chin
4.08 avg rating — 75 ratings 
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Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
by:
Stephen Westaby
4.36 avg rating — 5,680 ratings 96. 
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.15 avg rating — 23,339 ratings 96. 
