Book Club Archive

 2024

• January 22: Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel E. Lieberman

• April 22: Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A Sinclair, PhD, with Matthew D LaPlante

• September 23: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalininthi

2023

• January 30: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo

• April 24: The Illusion of Evidence–Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research by Jon Jureidini and Leemon B McHenry

• September 25: Man’s 4th Best Hospital by Samuel Shem

2022

• January 24: The End of October by Lawrence Wright

• April 25: The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

• September 26: The Premonition by Michael Lewis

2021

• January 25: Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

• April 26: Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecilia Watson

• September 27: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment—James H. Jones

2020

• January 27: Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

• April 27: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller

• September 28: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

2019

• January 28: The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization by Martin Puchner

• April 29: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr

• September 30: Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

2018

• January 29: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• April 30: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

• September 24: A world without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age by Emmy J. Favilla

2017

• January 30: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu

• April 24: The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry by Paul R. McHugh

• September 25: Interface by George Jewsbury and Neal Stephenson [a novel first published under the pseudonym Stephen Bury]

2016

• January 25: White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliott

• April 25: The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

• September 26: Ticked: A Medical Miracle, a Friendship, and the Weird World of Tourette Syndrome by James A. Fussell and Jeffrey P. Matovic

2015

• January 26: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

• April 25: A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

• September 28: Health Care Research Done Right: A Journal Editor Shares Practical Tips and Techniques for High Quality and Efficiency by Kathleen A. Fairman

2014

• January 27: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• April 26: The End of Illness by David B. Agus

• September 29: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss

2013

• January 28: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

• April 29: Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine by David H. Newman

• September 30: Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You by Jerome Groopman (see January 28, 2008) and Pamela Hartzband

2012

• January 30: W;t by Margaret Edson

• April 30: Mount Misery by Samuel Shem (pseudonym of psychiatrist Stephen Bergman) (see April 26, 2010)

• September 24: My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese

2011

• January 31: Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book about Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self by Peter D. Kramer

• April 25 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• September 26: Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn McKenna

2010

• January 25: Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon

• April 26: The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital by Samuel Shem (pseudonym of psychiatrist Stephen Bergman)

• September 27: Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality by Pauline W. Chen

2009

• January 26: The Scalpel and the Soul by Allan Hamilton

• April 27: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

• September 28: The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million—and Bucked the Medical Establishment—in a Quest to Save His Children by Geeta Anand

2008

• January 28: How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

• April 28: Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Maryn McKenna

• September 29: Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist by Janis Amatuzio

2007

• January 8: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

• April 23: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

• September 24: Intuition by Allegra Goodman