Complications

Atul Gawande

评分 9.0分

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in i

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

评分 9.3分

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Mason Currey, 梅森·柯瑞

评分 7.6分

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if

Something to Declare

Julian Barnes, [英] 朱利安·巴恩斯

评分 0.0分

Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its cultu

This is Going to Hurt

Adam Kay

评分 9.1分

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

Former People

Douglas Smith

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The Patrick Melrose Novels

Edward St. Aubyn

评分 8.4分

For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an acrid portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This singl

A Bend in the River

V. S. Naipaul

评分 8.7分

'Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is

Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

评分 8.2分

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa

Uncle Tungsten

Oliver Sacks

评分 0.0分

著名的神经学学者奥利弗·萨克斯写的《钨叔叔》（UNCLE TUNGSTEN）被《纽约时报书评》评为2001年度最佳图书之一。

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams

评分 9.1分

When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - "Where shall we have dinner?" "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

评分 0.0分

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is r

In America

Susan Sontag

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"In America" is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel "The Volcano Lover," Susan Sontag casts a story located in the past in a fresh,

The Pianist

Wladyslaw Szpilman

评分 8.7分

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the "Los Angeles Times," "The Pianist "is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody ("Son of Sam"). "The Pianist" won the C