List of my favorite books

Epidemiology & Biostat

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Epidemiology: An Introduction by Ken Rothman	Companion Site
Epidemiology By Design: A Causal Appoach to the Health Sciences by Daniel Westreich
Modern Epidmiology 3rd Ed By Rothman, Greenland and Lash	The First Edition and 2nd Edition are also excellent!
What If, Causal Inference by Miguel Hernan and Jamie Robins	PDF
Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath
Probability by Joseph Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang	Version 1 PDF Version 2 PDF
Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank Harrell	PDF here
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis by Fitzmaurice, Laird and Ware
An Introduction to Statistical Learning by James, Witten, Hastie, And Tibshirani	PDF and YouTube Videos
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis by John Kruschke	Whats new in the 2nd Ed.
Explanation in Causal Inference	Great resource for causal analysis, although the book is really written for SAS users and not R users, unfortunately. Companion Website here
Statistical Issues in Drug Development by Stephen Senn	Excellent resource for learning about and understanding statistical issues in Clinical Trials and RCTs

Medical

Favorites from medical school and training. Included basic science books and might be a good reference for med students looking for the best references. Cince my focus is surgery and critical care you will get books slanting that way (eg, anatomy, physiology, pathophys, surgical)

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Medical Physiology by Boron and Boulpaep	Wuite detailed covereage of physiology, useful for a deep dive.
Best and Taylor’s Physiologic Basis of Medical Practice by Tandon and Tripathi	I love the presentation of the information in this book. Also useful for a deep dive.
Marino’s The ICU Book by Paul Marino	The ICU book for quick learning.
West’s Respiratory Physiology by West	Wonderful companion lectures at UCSD to go with it
West’s Pulmonary Pathophysiology by West	Wonderful companion lectures at UCSD
Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice By Standring	Quite in depth anatomy book way beyond just an atlas. Great reference particularly for a surgeon
Anatomy: A Photographic Atlas	Wonderful book that includes real dissection photographs
Toronto Notes	Fabulous summaries of medical information you will need
First Aid for the Basic Sciences: General Principles and First Aid for the Bacis Sciences: Organ Systems	These are both wonderful resources to summarize the “first two years” of med school curriculum and should accompany study of lecture and material (imo)
Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank Netter	Didnt appreciate how awesome this is until I was in surgery residency. Its a great reference
Essentials of General Surgery by Lawrence	Excellent intro summary for medical students going into MS4 rotations
Anatomy as a basis for clinical medicine by ECB Hall-Craggs	This is an out of print and not well known book, but have found it to be a great way to learn anatomy and a great reference too
The Physiologic Basis of Surgery By O’Leary	One of my favorite surgery textbooks
Medical Microbiology By Murray	The book I used in med school and quite useful for that purpose. The author, murray, was actually my lecturer
Basic Immunology By Abbas	The book I used in med school, much lighter than Janeways and hits all the pertinent points for physicians

Popular Science and Math

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
We Have No Idea by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
Academia Obscura by Glen Wright

Fiction

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Douglas Adams books in general The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Dirk Gently Series
Terry Pratchett books in general, too Discworld Series Good Omens
The Dinosaur Feather and The Arc of the Swallow	Thrillers set in the world of academia, whats not to love?

Mathematics

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Calculus 9th ed. By Thomas and Finney	Wonderfully lucid exposition of calculus
Intro. to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang	Might be best paired with the MIT OCW Course
Calculus by Spivak

Physics

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Feynman’s Lectures on Physics	Online Version of the books here
University Physics with Modern Physics by Young and Freedman	Calculus based physics
Physics, Volume 1, 5th Edition and Physics, Volume 2, 5th Edition by Resnick Halliday and Krane	Two parter but also great

Chemistry

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Biochemistry by Matthews and Van holde	Best Intro Biochem book, and better than Lehninger IMO
Biochemistry by Voet and Voet	The tome; side note: I got to meet Drs. Voet and Voet and have my 3rd Ed signed
Organic Chemistry by Marc Loudon	Better than McMurray and Fay in my opinion. There great great corresponding review sheets here
Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight by Atkins Jones and Laverman or Principles of Modern Chemistry by Oxtoby	Both are great resources for gen chem learning with calculus base in the kinetics and energetics sections
Inorganic Chemistry by Miessler and Tarr

Biology

Title and Author	Description and/or Extra Material
Campbell Biology	What can be said about this? Comprehenseive intro level biology text covering the entirety of the field from 1000ft view
Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts	I used the 4th ed. (linked) but Im sure the 5th & 6th eds. are great too!
Physical Biology of the Cell by Philips et al.
Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish and Baltimore
Karp’s Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments	I used this as my into cell bio book and loved it; was a great intro book.
Janeway’s Immunobiology By Murphy and Weaver	Research Immunology text, too much depth for medical school more for adv undergrad or grad school
Brock Book of Microorganisms	Great intro to microbiology text

…more to come