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Thirty-three Hats for Julia
Sarah Bein
(Red Hen Press, 2008)

White Dancing Elephants
Chaya Bhuvaneswar

(Dzanc, 2018)

Endosymbiont
Blake Charlton
A novelette in Seeds of Change, ed. JJ Adams
(Prime Books, 2008)

Spellwright
Blake Charlton
(Tor Books, 2010)

Spellbound
Blake Charlton
(Tor Books, 2011)

Unspeakable Mind
Shaili Jain
(Harper, 2019)

What Every Science Student Should Know
Yoo Jung Kim
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)

Yes She Can
Co-Authored by Noemie Levy
(Penguin Random House, 2019)

sixteen anatomic mnemonics
Nicholas Love
(Blurb, 2016)

The Winter Soldier
Daniel Mason
(Mantle, 2018)

A Far Country
Daniel Mason
(Vintage, 2007)

The Piano Tuner
Daniel Mason
(Vintage, 2003)

The Three Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Enigmas
Shannon Moffett 
(Algonquin, 2006)

Bitten
Kris Newby
(Harper Wave, 2019)

Do Good Well
Jennifer Przybylo
(Jossey-Bass, 2013)

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Sunita Puri
(Viking, 2019)

 

 

Cracking Med School Admissions: Trusted Advice from Students Who've Been There
Rachel Rizal, Rishi Mediratta, James Xie, Devin Nambiar
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013)

 

 

Diabulimia: Towards Understanding, Recognition, and Healing 
Aarti Sharma
(Createspace Publishers, 2013)

Isolation Ward: A Novel of Medical Suspense 
Joshua Spanogle
(Bantam, 2006)

Flawless: A Novel of Medical Suspense
Joshua Spanogle
(Delacorte, 2007)

What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors 
Edited by Kevin Takakuwa, Nick Rubashkin, and Karen Herzig
(Univ. of California Press, 2004 )

Taking My Medicine: My Journey from Teenage Mother to Physician
Dr. Melanie Watkins
(CreateSpace, 2011)


Faculty and Staff

Jonas Salk: A Life
Charlotte Jacobs, MD
(Oxford University Press, 2015)

Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease
Charlotte Jacobs, MD
(Stanford University Press, 2010)

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi MD
(Random House, 2016)

Equine-imity—Stress Reduction and Emotional Self-Regulation in the Company of Horses

Beverly Kane MD
(Dreamspark Press, 2021)

Standard of Care: A Novel
David Kerns MD
(Sentient Publications, 2007)

The Owner's Closet
Kate Lorig PhD
(Bull Publishing, 2006)

The Eye of the Artist
Michael Marmor MD and James G. Ravin
(Mosby, 1997)

Degas Through His Own Eyes
Michael Marmor MD
(Somogy, 2006)

The Artist’s Eyes: Vision and the History of Art
Michael Marmor and James Ravin
(Harry N. Abrams, 2009)

Doctor Vita
Rick Novak
(All Things That Matter, 2019)

Disruptive Behaviors: Development, Psychopathology, Crime, & Treatment
Hans Steiner
(Oxford University Press, 2017)

Your Secret Mind: Getting to Know and Living with Your Unconscious
Hans Steiner
(Karnac Books, 2017)

Treating Adolescents
Hans Steiner
(Wiley, 2015)

On Becoming & Being A Doctor
Hans Steiner 
Please contact Dr. Steiner directly to purchase. 

Multicultural Encounters: Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice 
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
(Teachers College Press, 2002)

Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education 
Edited by Soo im Lee, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu and Harumi Befu
(iUniverse, Inc., 2006)

Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity
Edited with David Blake Willis,Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
(Routledge, 2013)

When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
(Stanford University Press, 2012)

The Doctor & Mr. Dylan
Rick Novak, MD
(Pegasus Books, 2014)

The Mailbox
Audrey Shafer MD
(Random House, 2006)

Sleep Talker: Poems by a Doctor/Mother
Audrey Shafer MD
(Xlibris, 2001)

A Surgeon's War: My Year in Vietnam
Henry Ward Trueblood MD
(Astor & Lenox, 2015)

My Own Country 
Abraham Verghese, M.D.
(Vintage, 1995)

The Tennis Partner
Abraham Verghese, M.D.
(Harper Perennial, 1999)

Cutting for Stone 
Abraham Verghese, M.D.
(Knopf, 2009)

Love's Executioner and other Tales of Psychotherapy 
Irvin Yalom
(Harper Collins, 1989)

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession 
Irvin Yalom
(Harper, 1992)

Lying on the Couch: A Novel
Irvin Yalom
(Harper, 1997)

The Spinoza Problem: A Novel
Irvin Yalom
(Basic Books, 2011)

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