In celebration of today’s summer solstice, we’re sharing some staff suggestions for your summer reading list. These titles are mostly biomedically related (at least to some degree) but have considerably more poolside reading potential than the average journal article. Happy summer reading!
Available at Becker Library:
- “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain
- “In a Different Key: The Story of Autism” by John Donvan, Caren Zucker
- “Wellness & Writing Connections: Writing for Better Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health” edited by John Frank Evans
- “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
- “The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger’s” by Temple Grandin
- “Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success” by Adam M. Grant
- “Your Medical Mind” by Jerome Groopman
- “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
- “Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery” by Henry Marsh
- “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- “The Gene: An Intimate History” by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- “The Mind’s Eye” by Oliver Sacks
- “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
- “Fatal Pauses: Getting Unstuck Through the Power of No and the Power of Go” by Stuart C. Yudofsky
The following aren’t available at Becker Library, but you shouldn’t have trouble finding them at public libraries or bookstores.
Nonfiction:
- “Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century” by Kevin Fong
- “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren
- “Let’s Pretend this Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson
- “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic” by David Quammen
- “Gulp” by Mary Roach
- “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach
- “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson
- “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story” by Abraham Verghese
Fiction:
- “Moloka’i” by Alan Brannert
- “Birdbox” by Josh Malerman
- “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese