John Lu

MD-PhD Student | Stanford University School of Medicine

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John Lu | MD-PhD Student Stanford University School of Medicine

Here are some of the books I’ve read:

Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Outliers: The Story of Success
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Chaos: Making a New Science
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Origin
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The Gene: An Intimate History
Modern European History
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Let the Great World Spin
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry
Venture Deals
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Billy Budd, Sailor
The Sun Also Rises
The Professor's House
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Ender's Game
The Goldfinch
The Rosie Effect
The Rosie Project
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Death of a Salesman
This Side of Paradise
A Fighting Chance
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
The Juice: Vinous Veritas
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
All the King's Men
A Truck Full of Money
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Thing Around Your Neck
Olive Kitteridge
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
On Immunity: An Inoculation
The Road to Character
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Causing Death and Saving Lives
The Metamorphosis
The Art and Politics of Science
The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug
When Breath Becomes Air
Wit
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
How to Lie with Statistics
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
The House of God
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Bilharzia: A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine
Unaccustomed Earth
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
King Leopold's Ghost
Cancer Virus: The Story of Epstein-Barr Virus
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
41: A Portrait of My Father
Think Like a Freak: How to Solve Problems, win Fights and Be a Slightly Better Person
Economics in Minutes
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Bury the Chains
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Da Vinci Code
Catching Fire
Life of Pi
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hunger Games
The Kite Runner
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Water for Elephants
Memoirs of a Geisha
Americanah
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Diary of a Young Girl
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Brave New World
Hamlet
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Freak the Mighty
The Outsiders
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
1984
Angels & Demons