Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/4541492-vimaris">Vimaris</a> (38 Lists)

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The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

Best Popular Medicine Books on Goodreads

123 books — 37 voters

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises

The Austrian School of Economics

100 books — 120 voters

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Best Economics Books

459 books — 536 voters

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

Merchants of Debt by George Anders

King Icahn by Mark Stevens

The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald

Business History

524 books — 289 voters

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

Beating the Street by Peter Lynch

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle

Best Investment Books

130 books — 247 voters

Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale

Life Support by Suzanne Gordon

242 books — 60 voters

Barbara Jordan by Mary Beth Rogers

Betty Shabazz by Russell John Rickford

A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita

Afeni Shakur by Jasmine Guy

Voodoo Queen by Martha Ward

Female Biographies

1,283 books — 469 voters

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

New York by Edward Rutherfurd

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Best Books Set in New York City

387 books — 421 voters

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)

270 books — 246 voters

Critical by Tom Daschle

The Health Care Case by Nathaniel Persily

Health Care Reform by Jonathan Gruber

The Healing of America by T.R. Reid

A Clean Bill of Health by Myles Saunders

US Health Care Reform Reading List

31 books — 54 voters

Complications by Atul Gawande

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Better by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Books by Physicians about Medical Practice

177 books — 109 voters

Lights and Sirens by Kevin Grange

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

Science Based Medicine Recommends

138 books — 104 voters

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Best Historical Travel Journals

335 books — 240 voters

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

Favorite Magical Realism Novels

1,383 books — 4,695 voters

Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent

We Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

344 books — 84 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

History of Science

489 books — 297 voters

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Baltimore Case by Daniel J. Kevles

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

99 books — 14 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

His Excellency by Joseph J. Ellis

John Adams by David McCullough

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Best History Books

4,090 books — 4,700 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel

The House of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons

History of Medicine

362 books — 169 voters

1491 by Charles C. Mann

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose

His Excellency by Joseph J. Ellis

Best American History Books

2,303 books — 3,121 voters

Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Complications by Atul Gawande

White Coat, Black Hat by Carl Elliott

Books all good doctors should read

43 books — 27 voters

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,921 books — 2,285 voters

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

The Family that Couldn't Sleep by D.T. Max

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,414 books — 8,210 voters

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

Reinventing American Health Care by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Sick by Jonathan Cohn

Understanding Health Policy and Economics

50 books — 38 voters

DNA by James D. Watson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Germ Theory by Robert Gaynes

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Great reads about Life Sciences

105 books — 48 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

Wonderful Books of Science and Medicine

182 books — 87 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Medical Microhistories

99 books — 94 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

15 books — 9 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Arviso Alvord

Complications by Atul Gawande

Best Books for Medical Students

435 books — 666 voters

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,973 books — 3,663 voters

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