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Books Like Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande · about this book

Loved Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande? If its nonfiction, medicine and aging hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, The Radium Girls and Cutting for Stone. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End: Nonfiction · Medicine · Aging · Terminal Illness · Emotional

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   Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

   Michelle Zauner

   Terminal Illness · Caregiving for a Parent · Nonfiction · Emotional · Graphic Medical Content

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   The Radium Girls

   Kate Moore

   Terminal Illness · Medicine · Nonfiction · Emotional · Graphic Medical Content

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   Cutting for Stone

   Abraham Verghese

   Medicine · Hospital · Emotional · Graphic Medical Content · Bittersweet

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   How I Broke Up with My Colon: Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories

   Nick Seluk

   Medicine · Health & Wellness · Nonfiction · Graphic Medical Content

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   Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

   Matthew Perry

   Hospital · Nonfiction · Emotional · Graphic Medical Content · Finding Purpose

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   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   Hospital · Medicine · Emotional · Bittersweet · Grief and Mourning

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   And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

   Fredrik Backman

   Aging · Caregiving for a Parent · Emotional · Grief and Mourning · Bittersweet

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   The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

   Walter Isaacson

   Medicine · Nonfiction · Philosophy · Science Writing · Memoir & Biography

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   This Time Tomorrow

   Emma Straub

   Terminal Illness · Caregiving for a Parent · Emotional · Bittersweet

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    Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

    Sarafina El-Badry Nance

    Nonfiction · Medicine · Emotional · Science Writing · Finding Purpose

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    Girl, Interrupted

    Susanna Kaysen

    Hospital · Nonfiction · Emotional · Memoir & Biography

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    The Second Life of Mirielle West

    Amanda Skenandore

    Hospital · Medicine · Emotional · Bittersweet

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    The Fault in Our Stars

    John Green

    Terminal Illness · Philosophy · Emotional · Bittersweet · Grief and Mourning

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    The Boys of Summer

    Roger Kahn

    Aging · Nonfiction · Emotional · Bittersweet · Memoir & Biography

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    Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bloomsbury Sigma)

    Kathryn Harkup

    Medicine · Nonfiction · Science Writing · Graphic Medical Content

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    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    Nonfiction · Philosophy · Aging · Finding Purpose · Grief and Mourning

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    Gather

    Kenneth M. Cadow

    Caregiving for a Parent · Emotional · Finding Purpose · Grief and Mourning · Bittersweet

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18. 

    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    Adam Higginbotham

    Nonfiction · Medicine · Emotional · Graphic Medical Content

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    The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

    Melinda Gates

    Nonfiction · Health & Wellness · Emotional · Memoir & Biography

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    The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

    Tim Schwab

    Nonfiction · Health & Wellness · Medicine

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