Intensive care (Beginners):
The Beginner’s Guide to Intensive Care – Laha and Arora
The Little ICU book of Facts and Formulas – Marino
Oxford Handbook for Critical Care – Singer

Intensive care (advanced):
Oxford’s Desk Reference Critical Care – Waldmann, Soni and Rhodes
Oh’s intensive care manual – Bersten and Handy

Physiology:
Basic physiology for anaesthetists – Chambers, Huang and Matthews
Physics, pharmacology and physiology for anaesthetists – Cross and Plunkett
West’s respiratory physiology – West and Luks

Pharmacology:
Pharmacology for anaesthesia and intensive care – Peck and Hill
The Renal Drug Handbook – Ashley and Dunleavy

Physics:
Basic physics and measurement in anaesthesia – Davis and Kenny
Physics in Anaesthesia – Middleton, Phillips, Thomas, Stacey

Equipment:
Essentials of anaesthetic equipment – Al-Shaikh and Stacey
Ward’s anaesthetic equipment – Davey and Diba

Anatomy:
Anatomy for anaesthetists – Ellis
Quick Draw Anatomy for anaesthetists – Fox

Major reference books:
A-Z anaesthesia, intensive care and preoperative medicine – Yentis
Fundamentals of Anaesthesia – Smith, Lin and Pinnock

Obstetrics:
Analgesia, anaesthesia and pregnancy – Yentis and Malhotra

Neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care:
Textbook of neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care – Prabukhar and Ali
Core topics in neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care – Matta, Menon and Smith

Paediatrics:
Neonatal and paediatric anaesthesia in a nutshell – Black and McEwan

Primary FRCA:
Masterpass 1 and 2 – McCombe and Wijayasiri
Doctor Podcast Scripts for the Primary FRCA – Leslie, Johnson, Goodwin

Final FRCA:
CRQs for the final FRCA – Akuji, Martin, Chambers and Thomas
Masterpass 1 and 2 for final FRCA – Combeer, Krisnachetty and Sethi
Doctor podcast scripts for the Final FRCA – Leslie, Johnson, Goodwin, Thomas

Autism:
The Reason I Jump – Naoki Higashida
The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time – Mark Haddon

Dementia:
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (also a film)

Stroke:
My stroke of insight – Jill Bolte Taylor (she is a neuroscientist)

Mental health:
Rx – Rachel Lindsay (this is a graphic novel!)
Marbles – Ellen Fornay (another excellent graphic novel)
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The centre cannot hold – Elyn Saks

Infectious disease:
The Plague – Albert Camus

Epilepsy:
Epileptic/ ‘L’Ascension du haut mal – David B (a great graphic novel)

Palliative care:
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Tolstoy

Families dealing with illness:
The spirit catches you and you fall down – Anne Fadiman
The shock of the fall – Nathan Filer
So much for that – Lionel Shriver

Addiction:
From the ashes – Jesse Thistle

Cancer:
The emperor of maladies – Siddartha Mukerjee
C – John Diamond
Mortality – Christopher Hitchens

Postpartum depression:
Things that helped – Jessica Friedmann

Pain medicine:
The Pain-Free mindset – Deepak Ravindran

Intensive Care medicine:
Seven signs of life – Aoife Abbey

Medicine in low resource settings:
A fortunate man – John Berger (Country medicine)
Mountains beyond mountains – Tracy Kidder
War doctor – David Nott (Trauma surgery in war zones)
Your heart is the size of your fist – Martina Scholtens (about refugee medicine)
Ask me why I hurt – Randy Christensen (about medicine for homeless children)

Being a medical student/ junior doctor:
This is going to hurt – Adam Kay
House of God – Samuel Shem

Being a female doctor:
This won’t hurt a bit – Michelle Au
A not entirely benign procedure – Perri Klass
Memoirs of a woman doctor – Nawal el Saadawi

Neurosurgery:
Do no harm – Henry Marsh
Into the magic shop – James Doty

Palliative care:
Dear Life – Rachel Clarke

Doctors coping with illness:
When breath becomes air – Paul Kalanithi
In shock – Rana Awdish

Neurology:
The man who mistook his wife for a hat and Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks

Psychiatry:
Our necessary shadow – Tom Burns

Thinking:
Thinking, fast and slow – Daniel Kahnemann
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
Black box thinking – Matthew Syed

Communication skills:
How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnegie
Talking to strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
Never split the difference – Chris Voss

Science and its problems:
Bad science and bad pharma – Ben Goldacre
Invisible women – Caroline Perez
Doing harm – Maya Dusenbery

Social commentary:
Poverty safari – Darren McGarvey
Cancer ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To repair the world – Paul Farmer

History:
The greatest benefit to mankind – a history of medicine – Roy Porter
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

Empathy:
The empathy exams (by a medical actor) – Leslie Jameson
Kitchen table wisdom – Rachel Remen

Self help:
The 7 habits of highly effective people – Stephen Covey