Thanks, community members, for contributing your book recommendations. We've compiled those here, along with a few other recommended reading lists for folks interested in medicine.
- "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip and Dan Heath
- "Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things" by Jenny Lawson
- "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
- "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreyrou
- "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John M. Barry
- "Leadership: In Turbulent Times" by Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
Each year AAMC shares a "Great Summer Reads for Aspiring Physicians" list. You can find the latest list here.
You might also be interested in these lists: 9 Great Summer Reads for Doctors (2018) and these 10 Great Summer Reads for Doctors (2019).
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Stephanie Weiner
Manager of Digital Strategy
Association of American Medical Colleges
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