- David Ansell, County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
- Rita Charon
- Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think
- Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Perri Klass
- Bernard Lown, The Lost Art of Healing
- Danielle Ofri
- Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Samuel Shem, House of God and Mount Misery
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
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