Still Alice by Lisa GenovaDidn't Get Frazzled by David Z. HirschWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksMoloka'i by Alan Brennert
Best Books with a Medical Setting.
401 books — 190 voters
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesDidn't Get Frazzled by David Z. HirschThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Books Written by Physicians
194 books — 83 voters

Still Alice by Lisa GenovaDidn't Get Frazzled by David Z. HirschDoctors by Erich SegalOxygen by Carol Cassella
Best Medical Fiction Novels
47 books — 70 voters
Didn't Get Frazzled by David Z. HirschWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Books for Medical Students
403 books — 575 voters

Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah VowellHawaii by James A. MichenerHotel Honolulu by Paul TherouxHawaiian Cookbook by Roana SchindlerMoloka'i by Alan Brennert
All Things Hawaiian
344 books — 181 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonI'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill BrysonKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Favorite Travel Books
2,016 books — 3,936 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonStill Alice by Lisa GenovaMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Medicine and Literature
1,829 books — 1,993 voters