Books
Below are a list of books I have personally read over the last five years. Many of these books have helped shape my perspectives on medicine, science and the world.
Books that are labeled with ** are ones I highly recommend for anyone pursuing or in a medical profession. Please see my MCAT page for recommended prep books.
Medical
- House of God – Samuel Shem**
- Gifted Hands – Ben Carson
- Complications - Atul Gawande**
- Better - Atul Gawande
- Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
- Hot Lights Cold Steel – Michael Collins
- How We Die – Sherwin Nuland**
- How Doctors Think – Jerome Groopman
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Faidman
- An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-first Century – James Orbinski**
- Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
Science
- The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
- The Language of God – Francis Collins
- Billions and Billions – Carl Sagan
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
- In Search of Memory – Eric Kandel
Social Justice
- Banker to the Poor – Muhammed Yunus
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder**
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – Nicholas Kristof
- Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World – Marc and Craig Kielburger
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children – John Woods
Economics
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century – Thomas Friedman
- Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt
- Germs, Guns and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
- The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki
- Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet - Jeffrey Sachs
- The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
- New Rules for the New Economy – Kevin Kelly
Personal Development
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less – Barry Schwartz
- Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
- Happier – Tal Ben-Shahar
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – David Allen
- The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
Fiction
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
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