- Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
- Pump: A Natural History of the Heart By Bill Schutt
- The Beat of Life Reinhard Friedl
- The Mind’s Eye Oliver Sacks
- The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush: And Other Bizarre Medical Cases Rob Myers
- Who Lives, Who Dies with Kidney Disease Mohammad Akmal, Vasundhara Raghavan
- A Surgeon’s Lessons, Learned and Lost John Raffensperger, MD
- When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
- Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries Lisa Sanders
- Neurology Rounds with the Maverick: Adventures with Patients from the Golden Age of Medicine Bernard Patten
- It is 7 am in the Cardiac ward Kamalendu (Kamal) Malaker
- Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon Kathy Magliato
- Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes On When You Go Under Paul Whang
- Oh, Nurse!: One Man’s Journey Through the Nursing Life, a Personal Account of the Highs and Lows David Daniels
- The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the E.R. by Brian Goldman
- The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center by Charles R. Morris
- Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. by Julie Holland
- One Children’s Place: Inside a Children’s Hospital (Plume) by Lee Gutkind
- Fascinomas – Fascinating Medical Mysteries by Clifton K. Meador
- Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
- What Killed Jane Austen? And Other Medical Mysteries, Marvels, and Mayhem by George Biro
- Accidental Medical Discoveries: How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World by Robert W. Winters
- We Were There: Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963 by Allen Childs
- INTERMISSION, part deux: Mysterious Interludes — wherein Allyson reviews Mystery Books during her off-time between jobs.
- Radiologists at Work: Saving Lives with the Lights Off (X-Ray Visions Book 1) by Carolyn Jourdan
- A License to Heal by Steven Bentley, M.D.
- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
- Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation’s ERs by Mark Brown
- The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Theresa Brown
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek M.D.
- The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra Robbins
- Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings by Pamela Nagami M.D.
- INTERMISSION: Mysterious Interludes — wherein Allyson reviews Mystery Books during her off-time between jobs.
- Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
- Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes by John Withington
- Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine by Clifford A Pickover
- Altered Destinies: Lives Changed by Genetic Flaws by William Stockton
- Coroner (The Coroner Series Book 1) by Thomas T. Noguchi and Joseph DiMona
- Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
by Keith Wailoo, PhD
- The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
by Pamela Nagami M.D. and F. Gonzalez-Crussi
- Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories
by Brent Russell
- Four by Klawans
- Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today’s Medicine
- A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
- When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
- When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King
- When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
- Happy Accidents
- The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories
- True Medical Detective Stories
- The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease
- The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
- The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine
- The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease & Stores from the Emergency Room
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know
- Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age
- When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: And Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body
- The Discovery of Insulin
- His Brother’s Keeper
- Post-Mortem: Solving History’s Great Medical Mysteries
- The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman
- The Bloodstream: The River of Life
- Blood and Guts
- Amazing Medical Stories
Until We Come Up With Something Witty To Say…
