Normal People
The Silent
by Sally
Patient by Alex Rooney
2019 Book of the
Michaelides
This shocking
psychological
thriller, set
on a secure
psychiatric ward,
sees a criminal
psychotherapist’s
attempt at
uncovering
the mysterious
truth of a young
woman’s act of
violence against
her husband.
Similarly
compelling for
fans of this genre
is The Couple
Next Door
by Shari
Lapena.
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30
Year in British
Book Awards
The touching
story of two
teens in Ireland
as they grow
and change
into adulthood,
set on the
background of
the post-2008
Irish economic
downturn.
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The Times Current Affairs
Book of the Year 2019
Historian Hallie Rubenhold shines
A shocking look at the
a light on the five previously
gender bias in data-
voiceless victims of Jack the
collection, from the
Ripper. Rather than focus on
government sector, medical
the grim details of their death,
research, and even car The Gendered Brain
she narrates each of their
by Gina Rippon
manufacturing. A revelatory
fascinating lives and highlights
In this thought-
must-read for just about
the experiences of working- class
provoking non-
everyone, but for
women in the Victorian
fiction, Professor
medical students
Era. The only shame
it is practically Rippon, a researcher
about this book is
in cognitive
obligatory.
that it wasn’t
neuroscience,
written a
explains how recent
hundred
Jess Catchpole
breakthroughs in
years
neuroscience can
4th Year
earlier.
disprove the long
questionable idea
of the ‘female
brain’ once
and for all.
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Cutting for Stone by
Abraham Verghese
Twice New York Times Bestseller
An awe-inspiring novel set in
Ethiopia, about the lives of conjoined
twin brothers who were orphaned
at birth and raised by doctors from the
hospital they were born in. With a title
eponymous with a phrase from the Hippocratic
Oath, the novel goes on to explore the human side
of medicine in magnificent depth.
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Invisible Women by
Caroline Criado Perez
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Unnatural Causes by
Dr Richard Shepherd
Memoir of one of the
UK’s most prominent and
experienced forensic
pathologists. A shocking
and unique insight
into this extraordinary
profession, and how its
landscape has changed
over time.
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Educated by Tara
Westover
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Chasing the
Scream by Johann
Hari
This non-fiction is
a thorough history
of the war on drugs
and the science of
addiction, from the
nineteen-thirties to
now. Johann Hari
travelled the world to
research this moving
and gripping
investigative
book.
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Tara was seventeen the
first time she ever set foot
in a classroom. Her strive for
knowledge eventually takes her from
a family of American survivalists in the
Idaho mountains all the way to Harvard and
Cambridge. This internationally best-selling
memoir is both moving and intense.
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