Abraham Verghese Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Abraham Verghese is an author. Official account. Author of THE COVENANT OF WATER. Physician & professor at Stanford. Previous books: CUTTING FOR STONE, THE TENNIS PARTNER, MY OWN COUNTRY.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twenty-First Edition (Vol.1 & Vol.2)
Joseph LoscalzoAbraham VergheseA book that I’ve had a love affair with ever since I encountered the seventh edition in 1974. My ambition is always to read it cover to cover before the next edition, but for the last five editions I haven’t come close. In my defense, it’s 4,384 pages.
Mixed Media Product, 2022
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A Fine Balance
Rohinton MistryAbraham VergheseRohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance is the kind of book that stops time. You enter another world, live a full life span, and return to find that it’s only Tuesday!
Paperback, 2001
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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul BellowAbraham VergheseI had only sampled Saul Bellow (“Humboldt’s Gift”) when I was in my 20s. I picked up “The Adventures of Augie March” during the darkest days of the Covid pandemic. I found it stunning. It left me no choice but to systematically read everything of his.
Paperback, 2006
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The Citadel
A. J. CroninAbraham VergheseThe oppressive conditions described in the fictional Welsh mining town so captivated the public’s imagination that it ostensibly shares responsibility for the creation of the [NHS]. A generation of physicians outside of America name [it] as the book that called them to medicine.
Paperback, 1983
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Abraham VergheseAbraham VergheseI'm shocked, delighted, and overflowing with gratitude that @oprah chose THE COVENANT OF WATER for @oprahsbookclub. What a blessing! "It's one of the best books I've ever read in my entire life, and I've been reading since I was three."— @oprah
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Abdulrazak GurnahAbraham VergheseI’m reading Abdulrazak Gurnah’s PARADISE. An extraordinary book! So evocative of an Africa of colonial times.
Paperback, 1995
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Abraham VergheseAbraham VergheseProud to be on President @barackobama’s reading list with writers I greatly admire! James McBride and I were honored to receive the National Humanities Medal from President Obama at the same time... I just saw James again in NYC. Love his book! And I love this list!
Hardcover, 2023
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García MárquezAbraham VergheseOnly in your fifth decade will you have experienced enough heartbreak to truly grasp this great love story.
Paperback, 2007
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor DostoyevskyAbraham Verghese“The Brothers Karamazov”... made me go back to and better appreciate “Crime and Punishment” and to commit to read all of Dostoyevsky’s oeuvre. I think editors today would take a red pen to Dostoyevsky’s long digressions, but to me those are integral to his charm.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2007
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek H. MurthyAbraham VergheseGreat conversation @vivek_murthy & @erictopol. "Our greatest moments are when our head and our heart fuse together, when our sense of mission is married to our knowledge, and we bring that to bear in the service of the patient in front of us." https://t.co/uBQeiWjJ07
Paperback, 2023
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