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Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz
- A Splendid Gift Barbara Elle Prisceaux
- Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies Alice Roberts
- The Anatomists’ Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body Colin Salter
- Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us About How the Brain Works Marc Dingman
- All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience Jay Wellons
- Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
- Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail
- The Trauma Chronicles by Stephen Westaby
- Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist by Daniel Muñoz, James M. Dale
- This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay
- The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ by Monty Lyman
- The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
- Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch
- Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
- Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery by Paul Craddock
- Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Christopher D. Frith, Alex Frith, Daniel Locke
- A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies by by Kathy Petras, Ross Petras
- An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives by Matt Richtel
- Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years by Dr. Michael J. Collins
- The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals about Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery by Anne Skomorowsky
- A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Sara Manning Peskin
- The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan
- A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, & Grace by Bruce H. Campbell, MD FACS
- Understanding DNA Ancestry by Sheldon Krimsky
- 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
- Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies Alice Roberts
Telltale Hearts: A Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story By Dean-David Schillinger
Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room By Paul Seward & Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases By Cory Franklin
Cancer Simply Explained: What Is Cancer and What Can We Do Against It? By Dr. Visar Vela, Dr. Laurence Favet, Dr. Günther Spahn
This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better Dr. Karan Rajan
The Body’s Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments By Paul Kimmel M.D.
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery By Lawrence Ingrassia
Medicine through the Ages: From Acupuncture to Antibiotics (Technology through the Ages) by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods
Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response By Jeremy Norton
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything By Randi Hutter Epstein
Uncharted — How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias by Edited by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks
Virginia Wouldn’t Slow Down! The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie A. Pearson, Nancy Carpenter (Illustrations)