1. The House of God
2. The Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen in Rhyme.
3. The Hot Zone
4. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
5. A Case of Need
6.Francis Conley- Walking out on the Boys
7.Sherwin B. Nuland- The Wisdom of the Body (also titled "How
We Live)
8.Sherwin B. Nuland- How We Die
9.The man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks
10.The strange case of the walking cadaver, by nancy butcher
11.Complications, By: Atul Gawande
12.timeline, by michael crichton
13.The Intern Blues by Robert Marion, M.D.
14.Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim, M.D.
15. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Alvord, MD
16. Health and Healing, Andrew Weil, MD
17. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
18. Darshak Sangavi, "A Map of the Child"
19.Terminal, Robin Cook
20. The Lost Art of Healing : Practicing Compassion in Medicine
by Bernard Lown
21. My own country by Abraham Verghese
22. the da vinci code by dan brown
23. john adams by david mccullough
24. the elegant universe by brian greene
25. middlesex by jeffrey eugenides
26. Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston
27. Walk On Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit by Michael Ruhlman
28. The Language of Cells: A Doctor and His Patients by Spencer Nadler
29. Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner
30. The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, MD
31. The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplan
32. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder
33. Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her, Dan Shapiro
34. Surviving the Extremes, A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. Kenneth Kamler
35: Travels and/or Five Patients, by Michael Crichton
36: Driving mR. Albert, by Michael Paterniti.
37: On Doctoring, edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone.
38: The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
39: The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian, Md. Freeman
40. Letters to a Young Doctor
41: Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer's latest, following up #32
42: The Secret Life of Bees - for something a little less science-based
43. Robin Cook books
44. Kitchen Table Wisdom by Dr. Rachel Remen counsels cancer patients
45. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup -very good reference book and very informative
46. Tuesdays with Morrie
Non-Science/Health Books
47. At the Revolution My Life during the Reagan Years
by Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan
Whether you're a Dem or a Republican, this is a very interesting book to
read and it has nothing to do with medicine.
48. Hardball by Chris Mathews -this is a book that you would reread many
times. It's a book to keep.
49. Holy War Inside Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda by Peter Bergen
50. The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer legal thriller
51. harry potter and the half blood prince
52. Phantoms in the brain, Ramachandran
ps. there was an old thread discussing books too