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16 books

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

228 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

341 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven

Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

Suzanne Koven

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction autobiography essays memoir informative reflective medium-paced
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

323 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
fiction contemporary literary thriller dark tense fast-paced
Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks

Communion: The Female Search for Love

Love Trilogy #3

bell hooks

272 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction feminism philosophy inspiring reflective slow-paced
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction food and drink history memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Severance by Ling Ma

Severance

Ling Ma

291 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective medium-paced
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks

400 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction music psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

Danielle Ofri

224 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction health informative slow-paced
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

All About Love: New Visions

Love Trilogy #1

bell hooks

267 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0emmabg's review
nonfiction essays feminism gender informative inspiring reflective medium-paced