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If you loved The House of God by Samuel Shem, John Updike, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande, Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg

No. 2

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Atul Gawande

No. 3

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

No. 4

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

No. 5

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

No. 6

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Shawn Achor

No. 7

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

Tracy Kidder

No. 8

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

Jon Krakauer

No. 9

The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)

Noah Gordon

No. 10

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

Oliver Sacks

No. 11

Jasper Jones

Craig Silvey

No. 12

In One Person

John Irving

No. 13

Hyperspace

Michio Kaku

No. 14

I am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe

No. 15

Inherit the Wind

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

No. 16

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

No. 17

The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock

No. 18

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

No. 19

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

No. 20

A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-2)

George R.R. Martin

No. 21

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

No. 22

Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Orson Scott Card

No. 23

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No. 24

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen