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Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande
2007 • 288 pages

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Science Medicine

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic
An American Sickness
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is
When Breath Becomes Air

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Building A Better World

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Outliers: The Story of Success
Surviving the Extremes
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Life of Pi

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12 books

Medical

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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Into the Magic Shop

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Audiolist

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Vittorio, The Vampire
Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Transcendence
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Best of Me

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Old School Fun

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder
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Phantoms in the Brain
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
An American Plague
The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care Organizations

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Owned

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Every Last One
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Goodbye Phone, Hello World
Democracy in America
True Names
Exploring Expect

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283 books

Science

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Domesticated
The Disappearing Spoon
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Privileged Planet : How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution

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50 books

Year 2016

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The Dragon's Path
Time Salvager
The king's blood
The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Tyrant's Law
The Widow's House

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Non Fiction

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When God Was a Woman
The Red Queen
Diplomacy
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

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Memoir

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Born in Tibet
Life Itself: A Memoir
Wonderful Tonight

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Medical

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The Red Queen
A Scanner Darkly
Legends

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Non Fiction Explorative

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Leadership and the new science
Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be
What is an Anabaptist Christian?
Blind Spots
Crucial Conversations
The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith

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Favorites

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dune
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Outliers: The Story of Success
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

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57 books

Healthcare

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Botany of Desire
Food Rules
Second Nature
Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm

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Jessie Recomendations

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
A Civil Action
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
The Soul of a New Machine

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101 books

Medicine

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Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Treatment kind and fair
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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2010

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Juliet, Naked
The Lightning Thief
Monstrous Regiment
Animal's People
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Everything Matters!
A case of exploding mangoes

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Best Of 2010

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Health

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Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
My Own Country
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Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things

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Memoir

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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Egg and I
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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Healing

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Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
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Unbroken
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

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Loved It

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Medicine

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In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
The Debt Trap
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
Pathologies of Power
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms U.S. Health Care

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To Read I Own

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In Praise of Slowness
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Favorite Authors

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