Here is a massive list of books that I have enjoyed over the years. Some of these books I read when I was a young teenager – they may not be as amazing to me now but they deserve a spot on this list if they have some impact on me years later. Remember to read critically but also for enjoyment :)
Published: September 2, 2018. I will update this post as I read more so check back for an updated version.
Note: If a book is part of a series, only the first book in the series is named.
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Bloodlines - Richelle Mead
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Cider House Rules - John Irving
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
Every Day - David Levithan
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Shaffer, Annie Barrows
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Invisble Man - Ralph Ellison
It’s Kind of a Funny Story- Ned Vizzini
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Looking For Alaska - John Green
The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Native Son - Richard Wright
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
Othello - William Shakespeare
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
Will Grayson, Will Graysyon - John Green, David Levithan
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime - Adrian Raine
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance - Atul Gawande
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment - Babette Rothschild
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories From a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook - Bruce Perry
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Norman Doidge
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity - Norman Doidge
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience - Sally Satel
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche - Ethan Watters
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create the Difference - Cordelia Fine
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh
The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth - Irving Kirsch
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis - Lisa Sanders
Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality - Pauline Chen
First, Do No Harm - Lisa Belkin
The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain - Lisa Barrett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
The Mind’s Eye - Oliver Sacks
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues - Martin Blaser
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - Steve Silberman
The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the ER - Brain Goldman
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond - Sonia Shah
The Princess Saves Herself In This One - Amanda Lovelace
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year - Matt McCarthy
The River of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks
Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life - Allen Frances
The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur
The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons - Sam Kean
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
The Women Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation - Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
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