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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

If you loved The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Books like The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

If you loved The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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No. 3

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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No. 4

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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No. 5

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

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No. 6

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

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No. 8

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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No. 9

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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No. 10

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

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No. 11

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

No. 12

Cutting for Stone

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No. 13

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 14

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

No. 15

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 16

Middlesex

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No. 17

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

No. 18

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

No. 19

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Joshua Foer

No. 20

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

No. 21

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

Randy Shilts, William Greider

No. 22

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

No. 23

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

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No. 24

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean