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Showing 65 results from 1980 to 2025 with a minimum of 1,000 ratings.
Matched genres: Memoir, Medicine

Title Year Ratings Rating
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Memoir , Biography , War , Audiobook
David Nott
2019 14.0K 4.54
Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Medical , Medicine , Health , Biography Memoir
Mallory Smith
2019 1.7K 4.49
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Science , Audiobook , Race , Medical
Uché Blackstock
2024 3.6K 4.45
When Breath Becomes Air
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Medicine , Audiobook , Medical , Philosophy
Paul Kalanithi
2016 742.0K 4.41
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Biography , Medical , Audiobook , Humor
Adam Kay
2017 307.9K 4.40
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Biography , Nonfiction , Christian , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Medicine , Inspirational
Gregg Lewis
2009 2.7K 4.39
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Audiobook , Neuroscience
Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
1997 11.1K 4.34
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
Nonfiction , Spirituality , Memoir , Self Help , Psychology , Medicine , Health
Rachel Naomi Remen
1997 5.6K 4.34
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Nonfiction , Medicine , Science , Medical , True Crime , Memoir , Biography
Richard Shepherd
2018 44.4K 4.32
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Biography , Medicine , Medical , Womens
Susan Wicklund
2007 2.4K 4.31
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Biography , Audiobook
Lawrence Ingrassia
2024 1.1K 4.31
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Biography , Biography Memoir , Social Justice
Randy Christensen
2011 2.1K 4.29
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Health , Biography
Atul Gawande
2003 50.9K 4.28
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Audiobook , True Crime
Judy Melinek
2014 25.7K 4.26
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Health , Memoir , Health Care
Atul Gawande
2007 35.9K 4.25
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Biography , Health
Henry Marsh
2014 40.3K 4.25
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Medical , Biography , Science , Biography Memoir
Abraham Verghese
1995 12.5K 4.22
Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Medical , Science , Biography , Health
David Fajgenbaum
2019 2.4K 4.20
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Nonfiction , Biography , Medicine , Memoir , Science , Medical , Health
Tracy Kidder
2004 86.6K 4.20
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Nonfiction , Medicine , Anthropology , Medical , Science , History , Memoir
Anne Fadiman
2007 86.4K 4.20
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Medicine , Nonfiction , Medical , Science , Health , Psychology , Memoir
Danielle Ofri
2013 2.5K 4.19
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Medical , Race , Biography , Science
Damon Tweedy
2015 5.3K 4.18
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Autobiography , Biography Memoir
Ben Carson
1996 21.7K 4.18
All That Remains: A Life in Death
Nonfiction , Science , True Crime , Memoir , Death , Audiobook , Medicine
Sue Black
2018 14.1K 4.16
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
Nonfiction , Memoir , Religion , Biography , Politics , Medicine , Islam
Ayaz Virji
2019 1.9K 4.15
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Nonfiction , Politics , History , Memoir , Medicine , Health , Audiobook
Timothy Snyder
2020 2.1K 4.15
Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Nonfiction , Memoir , Military Fiction , Biography , Medical , Medicine , War
Adele Levine
2014 1.3K 4.14
My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Nonfiction , Memoir , Health , Science , Medicine , Audiobook , Biography
Sandeep Jauhar
2023 1.3K 4.13
Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
Nonfiction , Medical , Medicine , Science , Health Care , Memoir , Biography
Michael Ruhlman
2004 1.4K 4.13
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Memoir , Biography , Science , Health
Matt McCarthy
2015 7.3K 4.12
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
Nonfiction , Memoir , Christmas , Audiobook , Medical , Medicine , Humor
Adam Kay
2019 68.8K 4.11
The Hospital by the River
Nonfiction , Africa , Biography , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Ethiopia
Catherine Hamlin
2005 2.6K 4.09
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
Nonfiction , Science , Medicine , Medical , Health , Memoir , Biology
Azra Raza
2019 1.3K 4.07
Further Confessions of a GP
Nonfiction , Medical , Memoir , Medicine , Audiobook , Comedy , Biography
Benjamin Daniels
2013 1.3K 4.06
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Nonfiction , Medicine , Memoir , Medical , Native American , Biography , Health
Lori Arviso Alvord
2000 1.3K 4.01
The Tennis Partner
Memoir , Nonfiction , Medicine , Biography , Sports , Medical , Biography Memoir
Abraham Verghese
1999 12.6K 4.01
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medical , Africa , Sudan , Biography , Medicine
James Maskalyk
2009 1.2K 4.01
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , France , Medicine
Jean-Dominique Bauby
1998 75.1K 3.98
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Nonfiction , Medicine , Science , Medical , Memoir , Death , Philosophy
Christine Montross
2007 2.0K 3.97
On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story
Nonfiction , Military Fiction , Medical , Medicine , War , History , Memoir
Richard Jadick
2007 1.3K 3.97
Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical Mysteries
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Health , Audiobook , Memoir
Lisa Sanders
2009 8.6K 3.96
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Health , Audiobook , Memoir
Lisa Sanders
2009 8.6K 3.96
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , School , Inspirational , Medicine , African American
Sampson Davis
2003 3.5K 3.95
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Kevin Hazzard
2016 13.3K 3.95
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Kevin Hazzard
2016 13.3K 3.95
On Immunity: An Inoculation
Nonfiction , Science , Essays , Health , Medicine , History , Memoir
Eula Biss
2014 11.6K 3.94
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Health , Science , Medical , Medicine
Abby Norman
2018 2.6K 3.93
Confessions of a Male Nurse
Nonfiction , Medical , Memoir , Humor , Medicine , Biography , Autobiography
Michael Alexander
2012 1.7K 3.92
In Stitches
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Medical , Humor , Biography , Biography Memoir
Anthony Youn
2011 1.6K 3.90
Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Biography , Medicine , Medical , Humor
Adam Kay
2022 24.2K 3.90