Reading list for Bibliophilic doctors: 2021
As medical students, one of our staple activities is reading and yet it’s difficult to find the time to go beyond textbooks and when we do, the lack of representation/poor representation of the medical field can be irksome. So we curated a reading list for medicos/people interested in health. It comprises books related to medicine, illness, discovery and more. Not all of them are about doctors but all of them are about the human condition. We give to you, reading list 2021:
1. The Emperor of All Maladies: Siddhartha Mukherjee
2. My Own Country: Abraham Verghese
3. The Gene: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4. House of God: Samuel Shem
5. The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science: Siddhartha Mukherjee
6. The Checklist Manifesto: Atul Gawande
7. Better: Atul Gawande
8. Being Mortal: Atul Gawande
9. When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
10. Medical Nemesis: Ivan Illich
11. Disabling professions: Ivan Illich
12. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot
13. A Stranger Truth: Ashok Alexander
14. Em and the Big Hoom: Jerry Pinto
15. The Innovator’s Prescription: Jason Hwang, Clayton M. Christensen
16. The Man who mistook his wife for a hat: Oliver Sacks
17. Phantoms in the brain: V.S. Ramachandran
18. The Tell-tale brain: V.S. Ramachandran
19. Doctors: Erich Segal
20. Only Love: Erich Segal
21. The Final Diagnosis: Arthur Hailey
22. Do No Harm: Henry Marsh
23. Gene Machine: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
24. The Citadel: AJ Cronin
25. On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
26. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Frank Vertosick
27. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World: Steven Johnson
28. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: John Carreyrou
29. The Panic Virus: Seth Mnookin
30. How Doctors Think: Jerome Groopman
31. Pain: A Political History- Keith Wailoo
32. Girl, Interrupted: Susanna Kaysen
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey
34. The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
35. Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
36. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
37. Mountains beyond mountains: Tracy Kidder
38. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic- Randy Shilts
39. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
40. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
41. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
42. The God Complex by Chris Titus
43. The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
44. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
45. Chronicles of a gynaecologist by Tripti Sharan
46. Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer
47. Infections and Inequalities by Paul Farmer
48. Ten Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow’s Leaders by Alfred Sommer
49. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
50. Night by Elie Wiesel
51. Complications by Atul Gawande
52. Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
53. AIDS and accusation by Pay Farmer
54. Motivational interviewing : Blake
55. Cutting for stone: Abraham Verghese
56. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
57. Homo Deus: Yuval Noah Harari
58.Strong Medicine by Arthur Hailey
59. How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
60. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
61. Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
62. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
63. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
64. A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
65. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
66. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
67. The Cry and the Covenant by Morton Thompson
68. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
69. In the land of invisible women by Qanta Ahmed
70. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
71. Terminal by Robin Cook
72. Year of the Intern by Robin Cook
73. Harmful Intent by Robin Cook
74. Godplayer by Robin Cook
75. Outbreak by Robin Cook
76. Mutation by Robin Cook
77. A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer
78. Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer
79. Second Opinion by Michael Palmer
80. Flashback by Michael Palmer
81. Next by Crichton
82. Andromeda Strain by Crichton
83. The Intern Blues by Robert Marion
84. The Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman
85. This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine by Eliza Lo Chin
86. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perri Klass
87. Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer
88. How we live by Sherwin Nuland
89. The doctor stories by William Carlos Williams
90. Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
91. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
92. Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care, by Warner V. Slack
93. Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
94. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD
95. The Social Transformation of American Medicine, by Paul Starr, PhD
96. Not as a Stranger, by Morton Thompson
97. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby
98. Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
Book by Gerald Imber
99. The Knife Man by Wendy Khadijah Moore
100. Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
(Thanks to Dr Dibyendu S Das, Dr Vishwajit Hegde, Dr Akshay S Dinesh and Shreyaa Sampath for contributing to this list)
Happy Reading!
Dr Shivangi Shankar, Intern
Mysore Medical College and Research Institute
