Science Medicine Books
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,051 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.13 — 802,928 ratings — published 2010
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.49 — 217,137 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.41 — 802,673 ratings — published 2016
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,743 ratings — published 1985
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,602 ratings — published 2003
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,596 ratings — published 2016
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.28 — 52,395 ratings — published 2002
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,324 ratings — published 1994
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,146 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,165 ratings — published 2006
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.40 — 328,907 ratings — published 2017
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,711 ratings — published 2014
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,547 ratings — published 2004
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,609 ratings — published 2016
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,015 ratings — published 1997
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,204 ratings — published 2008
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,428 ratings — published 1976
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,255,106 ratings — published 2011
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,068 ratings — published 2022
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.22 — 421,680 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.37 — 225,383 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,651 ratings — published 2003
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.08 — 206,312 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,799 ratings — published 2008
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.21 — 478,083 ratings — published 1988
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.31 — 99,045 ratings — published 2019
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,626 ratings — published 2017
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,555 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.40 — 281,265 ratings — published 2018
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.31 — 22,554 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 184,816 ratings — published 2016
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 237,268 ratings — published 2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,433 ratings — published 2012
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,262 ratings — published 2009
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,138 ratings — published 2010
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,245 ratings — published 1987
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,162 ratings — published 2014
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,741 ratings — published 1994
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,120 ratings — published 2010
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,007 ratings — published 1999
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.32 — 47,888 ratings — published 2018
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.14 — 195,372 ratings — published 2014
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,317 ratings — published 2007
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.37 — 179,956 ratings — published 2025
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.15 — 144,981 ratings — published 2020
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.22 — 108,206 ratings — published 2014
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,253 ratings — published 2007
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,889 ratings — published 2009
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as science-medicine)
avg rating 4.54 — 134,925 ratings — published 2021
