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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
1.  Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
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  "How many fatal mistakes does it take to train a surgeon?"
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
2.  Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
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  "Atul Gawande on how to become a 'positive deviant'"
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Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
3.  Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon by Druin Burch
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  "Beauty and brutality combine in a personal story of blood, bodysnatching, poetry, radical politics and revolutionary surgery"
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House Of God (Black Swan)
4.  House Of God (Black Swan) by Samuel Shem
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  "The blackest (& funniest) 'Catch-22' take on medicine going"
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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
5.  Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
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  "Exceptionally gripping account of medicine's failure to advance for most of its history"
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Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And Fifty-six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor
6.  Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And Fifty-six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor by Oscar London
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  "Occasionally over-sweet but still a good read"
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How Doctors Think
7.  How Doctors Think by Jerome E Groopman
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  "Reflections on the troubles doctors and patients have in talking to each other"
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The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Odyssey
8.  The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Odyssey by Jonathan Kaplan
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  "One man's story of coping with - and seeking out - dangers and difficulties"
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
9.  A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "The classic autobiographical account from the early twentieth century"
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A History of Modern Britain
10.  A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
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  "Makes the later twentieth century zip along"
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Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
11.  Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by David Kynaston
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  "The years we tend to forget, brought lovingly to life"
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Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
12.  Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
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  "The lesser known heroes of the Second World War, their successes and their horros"
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Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940
13.  Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
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  "A cleaner almost easier heroism, shorn of the ambivalences of bombing cities"
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The Blair Years: Extracts from The Alastair Campbell Diaries
14.  The Blair Years: Extracts from The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
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  "See history being created - flawed and on the fly, but excitingly all the same"
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
15.  The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
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  "A less violent history; but personal, funny and touching all the same"
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Bit of a Blur
16.  Bit of a Blur by Alex James
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  "A complete break from serious current affairs, but a slice of the times and a very enjoyably written one"
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Letters to a Young Doctor (Harvest Book)
17.  Letters to a Young Doctor (Harvest Book) by Richard Selzer
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  "The American surgeon Selzer writes with a light touch about deep things"
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Engleby
18.  Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
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  "A truly great historical novelist, here covering the last forty years"
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Human Traces
19.  Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
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  "A deft and ambitious combination of history and novel writing, with Freud that great unmentioned name hovering behind it all"
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
20.  A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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  "A great modern tale of life in Afghanistan over the last few decades"
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Suite Francaise
21.  Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
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  "A pinch of exquisite life - and joy - from France during the war"
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Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
22.  Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
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  "Why read fiction when real life stories can be so much more exciting?"
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