What to Read After Better
Readers who loved Better by Atul Gawande keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Better is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Better
Intern
When the air hits your brain
Hot Lights, Cold Steel
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
The Intern Blues
Complications
Walk on Water
Something for the Pain
How Doctors Think
The Checklist Manifesto
Mountains beyond mountains
Being Mortal
The House of God
The Emperor of All Maladies
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
My own country
Stiff
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Bonk
Five Days at Memorial
Packing for Mars
Gratitude
The Healing of America
The Ghost Map