On this page, you'll find a categorised list of suggested reads by our fantastic Mullany e-Mentors. The aim is simple, we'd like to provide you with additional reading support you may find of interest to you. Each title has been linked to Amazon or Google Books so you can view the summary and access titles easily.
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Please note this is not an extensive reading list, universities and colleges may have suggested reads of their own.
* Suited for a more mature audience
Anatomy:
Ross and Wilson Anatomy and physiology - Anne Waugh and Allison Grant
Anatomy and Human Movement - Roger W. Soames, Nigel Palastanga and Richard Tibbitts
Anatomy Coloring Book - Wynn Kapit and Lawrence Elson
Biochemistry:
Clinical Biochemistry - Allan Gaw, Michael J. Murphy, James Sheperd, Michael J. Stewart, Robert A. Cowan and Denis St. J. O'Reilly
Clinical Chemistry - William J. Marshall, Andrew P. Day and Marta Lapsley
Biology:
DNA - James Watson
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Biomedical:
Institute of Biomedical Science website
Dentistry:
Getting into Dental School - Adam Cross
Anatomy for Dental Students - Martin Atkinson
Whole-Body Dentistry - Mark A Breiner
So you want to be a Dentist? – Marcus Neff
Dental Anatomy Coloring Book - Samkeylon Publication
Ecology:
Habitat loss doesn’t just affect species, it impacts networks of ecological relationships - Miguel Lurgi
Live fast, die small: how global heating is simplifying the world’s ecosystems - Miguel Lurgi
A numbers game: killing rabbits to conserve native mammals - Euan Ritvhie, Damien Fordham and Miguel Lurgi
General Science:
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman! – Richard Feynman
Immunology:
How the immune system works – Lauren Sompayrac
The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health – Daniel M Davis
The Compatibility Gene – Daniel M Davis
Marine Biology:
What's it like to be a...? Marine Biologist - Elizabeth Dowden and Lisa Thompson
Mapping the Deep – Robert Kunzig
The secret life of sharks – Peter Klimley
Neptune’s Ark – David Rains Wallace
Voyage of the turtle: In pursuit of the Earth’s last dinosaur – Carl Safina
Medicine:
Medical school interviews - Olivier Picard and George Lee
Get into medical school -1250 UKCAT practice questions - Oliver Picard
The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside - Sherwin Nuland *
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddartha Mukherjee *
The House of God - Samuel Shem *
Your life in my hands - Rachel Clarke *
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi *
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande *
Better - Atul Gawanda *
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot *
Trust me I’m a junior doctor – Max Pemberton
This is going to hurt – Adam Kay *
A crack in creation - Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg
The Prison Doctor - Amanda Brown *
Critical - Matt Morgan *
With the End In Mind - Kathryn Mannix *
The Four Pillars Plan - Rangan Chatterjee
It's All in Your Head - Suzanne O'Sullivan *
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig *
Unnatural Causes - Richard Shepherd *
Midwifery:
Becoming a Student Midwife – Ellie Durant
Catching babies – Sheena Byrom
Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook - Vicky Chapman and Cathy Charles
The Roar Behind the Silence - Sheena Byrom
Giving Birth Like a Feminist - Milli Hill
Natural Science:
The Running Hare – John Lewis Stempel
Dry Store Room Number 1 - Richard Fortey
Neuroscience:
Do No Harm - Henry Marsh *
Rhythms of the Brain - Gyorgy Buzsaki *
Behave - Robert Sapolsky *
Innate - Kevin Mitchell *
Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith *
Neurotribes - Steve Silberman *
The Brain That Changes Itself - Normal Doidge
Nursing:
The Language of Kindness - Christie Watson
How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm - Mei Ling (children’s nursing)
The Nurse’s Anatomy and Physiology Colouring Book - Neal Cook, Andrea Shepherd and Jennifer Boore
Clinical Skills for Nurses (Student Survival Skills) - Claire Boyd
Nutrition and dietetics:
Food and Public Health: A Practical Introduction - Allison Karpyn
Food policy: integrating health, environment and society -Tim Lang, David Barling and Martin Caraher*
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health - Marion Nestle and Michael Pollan
Spoon Fed – Tim Spector
Paramedic Science:
Emergency care in the streets – Nancy Caroline
Pharmacy/Pharmacology:
Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre
www.bps.ac.uk/careers-in-pharmacology
Physiotherapy:
Born to Walk: Myofascial Efficiency and the Body in Movement – James Earls
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution - Nick Lane
The Concise Book of Muscles - Chris Jarmey
Psychology:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
Essentials of Human Memory - Alan D.Baddeley *
The Little Book of Psychology - Emily Ralls and Caroline Riggs
Starting out in methods and statistics for psychology - Victoria Bourne *
The Notebook of a New Clinical Neuropsychologist: Stories From Another World - Rudi Coetzer
The autistic brain - Temple Grandin and Richard Panek
Respiratory:
ARTP handbook to Spirometry
Veterinary Science:
Getting into Veterinary School – James Barton (11th edition)
Getting into Veterinary School – John Handley (4th edition)
Veterinary Anatomy Coloring Book - Rambaumniel Publication
How to Become a Veterinarian - Susanna Lee
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
Every Living Thing – James Herriot
All Things Wise and Wonderful – James Herriot
Encounters with Animals – Gerald Durrell
A Zoo in My Luggage – Gerald Durrell
The Vet Record (Magazine)
General Recommendations:
Self improvement:
How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong - Elizabeth Day
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day Podcast
Feel the feel and do it anyway - Susan Jeffers
Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life – Tom Rath
The Chimp Paradox – Steve Peters
You Are Awesome – Matthew Syed
Think Like a Monk - Jay Shetty
Science:
The Body - Bill Bryson
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Dr Yuval Noah Harari *
A brief history of everyone who ever lived - Adam Rutherford *
Classics:
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Novels:
Wonder - R.J.Palacio
My sisters keeper - Jodi picoult *
Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey *
Still Alice - Lisa Genova *
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon