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Medicine

Choose a book about the medical field: about doctors and nurses, operations, health, genetics, memory, the human body. It does not have to be non-fiction, but there are some powerful heart-wrenching and funny autobiographies.

Alternatively, you could explore famous writers who were doctors or (at a stretch) titles with Dr. in them. (Dr Zhivago, The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr No, Frankenstein).

Click on the bubbles for information about the books.

Website Lists:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79912/15-writers-who-were-also-medical-doctors

https://crimereads.com/9-great-medical-thrillers-chosen-by-a-physician/

Medicine

When Breath Becomes Air

by

Paul Kalanithi

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017

'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.

Review:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/31/when-breath-becomes-air-paul-kalanithi-review

Videos:

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships… Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides an essential, brutally frank account of what life is like for the beleaguered vanguard of the NHS. Now providing the groundwork for a sell-out stand-up tour, This is Going to Hurt is an unmissable window into Britain’s ailing health system and the lives of the people who are its lifeblood. Simply essential reading.

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

by

Adam Kay

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

What is it like to be a brain surgeon?

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong?

Do No Harm offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity.

With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions.

Review:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/19/do-no-harm-brain-surgery-henry-marsh-review

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsMYZTqMfRg

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

by

Henry Marsh

Sporting Chance

The literature inspired by sport is varied and wonderful. Choose from autobiographies by and biographies about the greatest and most mediocre. Follow your hero/heroine: they will give you an inside tour into the world of their disciplines and many have led incredible lives.

Or choose from some of the literary novels about sport.

The William Hill Sports Book of the Year Winner is a good place to start for fine writing.

http://www.williamhillplc.com/newsmedia/sports-book-of-the-year/previous-winners/

Sporting Chance

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

by Shehan Karunatilaka

"For all the seriousness of his subject matter, Karunatilaka has a real lightness of touch. He mixes humour and violence with the same deftness with which his protagonist mixes drinks. What he lacks in lyricism, he makes up for with brashness. (...) What is most remarkable about this novel, though, is how fact and fiction are manipulated. Real personalities parley with invented ones. (...) This may not be the Great Sri Lankan novel, as Karunatilaka's publishers loudly proclaim. But it is a great novel, and it is most certainly Sri Lankan." - Tishani Doshi, The Observer

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/01/the-chinaman-shehan-karunatilaka-review

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

Fever Pitch is Hornby’s tribute to a lifelong, obsession soccer. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby’s award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men’s coming of age stories, Fever Pitch is one for the home team.

‘Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby’s obsession and the state of the game—The funniest book of the year’

GQ

‘Hornby…comes closer to capturing the truths and absurdities of the obsessed sports fan’s mind than anyone else I have read’

The Observer

”Fever Pitch is the anatomy of an obsession, a knowing, bittersweet, and very funny autobiography in which the writer’s life is measured not in years but in seasons. I’ve read no better account of what being a fan really means’

Pete Davies

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.

As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment - to oneself and to others.

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Pick a country of the world that interests you. Research a famous author from that country and select a book set there. Stick to fiction and do not worry if it is in translation.

Here is a map already set up for ideas: https://www.lovereading.co.uk/bookmap/#

Click on the bubbles for some suggestions.

Read around the World

Read around the World

South Africa

“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”

–The New York Times

“Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.”

–Cleveland Plain Dealer

In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.

“Totally engrossing . . . [presents] the metamorphosis of a most remarkable young man and the almost spiritual influence he has on others . . . Peekay has both humor and a refreshingly earthy touch, and his adventures, at times, are hair-raising in their suspense.”

–Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Marvelous . . . It is the people of the sun-baked plains of Africa who tug at the heartstrings in this book. . . . [Bryce] Courtenay draws them all with a fierce and violent love.”

–The Washington Post Book World

“Impressive.”

–Newsday

“A compelling tale.”

–The Christian Science Monitor

South Africa

Australia

Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier

Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/28/narrow-road-deep-north-richard-flanagan-review

A Film based on a similar experience:

The Railway Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px04904hm88

Australia

Q & A by Vikas Swarup

India

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut, which provided the inspiration for the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is a page-turning and beguiling story of love, perseverance, and drama.

Vikas Swarup's remarkable debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.

Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history—from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.

Swarup's Q & A is a charming blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know—not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil—and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.

Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa

Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and idiomatic English - makes this a unique and powerful novel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/ken-saro-wiwa-widow-talks-execution-20-years-151110143101367.html

https://www.choices.edu/video/who-was-ken-saro-wiwa/

Nigeria

Who am I?

Make a list of ten identities (race, class, religion, sexuality, gender, nationality, etc.) that are different to yours. Now research and read a book written by an author who holds one of those identities.

Explore the myths and epic tales of the ancient Greek world and Find modern adaptations of these classics.

https://bookriot.com/2019/03/14/classical-mythology-retellings/

https://www.mydomaine.com/best-mythology-books-4770351

Or choose form the panoply of world myths.

Classics and retelling the world of myths

School Days

Find a book set in a school or campus.

School Days

Historical Novels

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." L. P. Hartley

Discover the world of the past through fiction set in days gone by ...

First choose your time period and then research the novels set in that time.

https://bookriot.com/2019/01/23/best-historical-fiction-books/

Historical Novels

The launch to other worlds

Explore the world of Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction.

Spy Thrillers

Choose from the spy thriller genre.

Magic and Fantasy

Graphic Novels

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-graphic-novels

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/533862948/lets-get-graphic-100-favorite-comics-and-graphic-novels?t=1585390699481

Reading Guidelines

Your Reading Challenge is to stock the virtual library by reading books from as many of the categories as you can.

Find the eleven categories by clicking on the objects and signs in the library. In some of the sections you will see book suggestions, but you are encouraged to find your own.

Once you have read the book you must submit the book with a short review in a Word Document sent to your Don.

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