When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiComplications by Atul GawandeThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Checklist Manifesto by Atul GawandeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Books for Medical Students
403 books — 575 voters
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Medicine and Literature
1,829 books — 1,993 voters

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Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,718 books — 25,914 voters