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Medicine-related books:

Complications by Atul Gawande
Better by Atul Gawande
Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss (very interesting book, semi-medically related)
 
The Bible
 
Read "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martin. The first book in the series is A Game of Thrones.

The books will definitely help you pass the time and are very good.
 
medical:
singular intimacies by Danielle Ofri

non-medical:
invasive procedures by orson scott card
 
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach 👍
 
I'm really bad at remembering authors but....

The Omnivore's Dilemma for nonfiction,

Plum Island for fiction
 
SirGecko said:
Read "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martin. The first book in the series is A Game of Thrones.

The books will definitely help you pass the time and are very good.
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👍 Yes I absolutely love this series.. only thing is the last book came out in 2005 and he claimed the next one would be out in 2006... and the wait is still on lol..

Also check out the Wheel of Time series.. another classic fantasy series. First book is the Eye of the World
 
If you're interested in surgery, then read Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael Collins. He is an orthopedic surgeon who writes about his 4-year residency. Although residency will be tough, especially in surgery, this book makes me want to do surgery even more. He talks about how it can be tough at times, but he always comes back with reasons why it was all worth it.

Read it. Trust me.
 
SirGecko said:
Read "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martin. The first book in the series is A Game of Thrones.

The books will definitely help you pass the time and are very good.
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Agreed. Great books.
Also try Terry Pratchett - the guy is a genius. Hilarious reads.

Medical - Gawande's books; Stiff by Mary Roach; How Doctors Think.
 
Complications and Better by Atul Gawande. He has more recent articles on the New Yorker too.
 
I've decided I'm going to work my way through a top 100 novels list (which is maybe too ambitious, so I'm starting with the top 25). So far this summer I've read
-The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
-1984 (George Orwell)
-Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
-Lord of the Flies (William Golding).
up next is Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Yeah, my job has a lot of waiting time...
 
Wheee said:
I've decided I'm going to work my way through a top 100 novels list (which is maybe too ambitious, so I'm starting with the top 25). So far this summer I've read
-The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
-1984 (George Orwell)
-Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
-Lord of the Flies (William Golding).
up next is Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Yeah, my job has a lot of waiting time...
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1984 and Brave New World right after one another are pretty interesting.
 
"Slaughter-House-Five" was the last book I had to read as a high school student this year, it's not bad 👍

I've been reading "Think Big" by Dr. Ben Carson which I think is a good read so far so a recommend that. Also "The Five People you meet in Heaven" is very interesting fiction by Mitch Albom I loved it. I'm gonna start reading another fiction by him in a bit called "For one more Day"
 
cudoc2014 said:
If you're interested in surgery, then read Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael Collins. He is an orthopedic surgeon who writes about his 4-year residency. Although residency will be tough, especially in surgery, this book makes me want to do surgery even more. He talks about how it can be tough at times, but he always comes back with reasons why it was all worth it.

Read it. Trust me.
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I second this. I'm not interested in surgery at all, but I found this book a great and easy read. Gives you a lot of insight as to how an orthopedic residency would be like (at the Mayo Clinic, no less).
 
"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"-- it's like Harry Potter for grownups.
 
JimmerJammerMrK said:
1984 and Brave New World right after one another are pretty interesting.
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Ahh, I was gonna say the same thing!

If you want the full experience of 1984, read it at night. If you like G. Orwell's style, then also read "animal farm" it is really short, but still a nice read.

As for medically related books, here is one of my favorites:
"Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver"
 
"Arrowsmith" - Sinclair Lewis
"The Soul of Medicine"- Sherwin Nuland
"Guns Germs and Steel" - Jared Diamond
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
"Franny and Zooey"- Salinger
 
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett sword flights & revenge in 11th century England.

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole : comedic novel set in 1960s New Orleans

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson : non-fiction, Chicago 1892-3, a World's Fair and a mass murderer

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver: ficton, Southern preacher, his wife and daughters go to Africa as missionaries

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell: "scientific mission to a newly discovered extraterrestrial culture"
 
The Lords of Disciplineby Pat Conroy
Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

If you haven't read these, get on it:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 
I really liked Daniel Kalla's Pandemic. He is a canadian doc, but it is fiction.
 
Wheee said:
I've decided I'm going to work my way through a top 100 novels list (which is maybe too ambitious, so I'm starting with the top 25).
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I'm doing the BBC Big Read (200 books, but really more than that, because a lot of the 'books' they list are actually series of books) and 1001 books to read before you die, plus some random reads including whatever advanced reader's copies Random House sends me to review for them.

I'm reading through Emma and The Lost World (the one by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not the one by Michael Crichton) right now. I have the Metamorphoses of Ovid on my shelf, as well as lighter reads like The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks and Secret Vampire by Lisa Smith. And, of course, with the 6th Harry Potter movie coming out this summer, I'll probably try a reread of the series as well.
 
I've just spent like 2 days reading a history-related book called 1587, a year of no significance.
 
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