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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeComplications by Atul Gawande
Best Books for Medical Students
411 books — 588 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Best Books Written by BIPOC Authors
306 books — 66 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,971 books — 2,134 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
356 books — 321 voters

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisPachinko by Min Jin LeeWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
GPREBC
46 books — 4 voters
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisNecessary Trouble by Sarah JaffeHope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit101 Changemakers by Michele BollingerThis Is an Uprising by Mark Engler
Build and Fight
24 books — 2 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Library of Resistance
192 books — 68 voters
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisOur Revolution by Bernie SandersGive Us the Ballot by Ari BermanWhite Trash by Nancy IsenbergThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Stop Trump Reading List
146 books — 56 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,861 books — 2,244 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,124 books — 2,309 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsStiff by Mary RoachThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Great reads about Life Sciences
105 books — 48 voters