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Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
Dr. Jonathan Southard, Dr. Ying Long, Dr. Andrew Kolbert, Dr. Shri Thanedar, and I coauthored a paper titled “Presence of L-canavanine in Hedysarum alpinum seeds and its potential role in the death of Chris McCandless,” which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine in October 2014.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl—as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Health care in North Korea is supposedly free, but in reality it isn’t free at all. Poor people can’t get treatment without some form of payment. If you don’t have any money—bring some alcohol. Bring some cigarettes. Bring some Chinese medicine. Or forget it.
Masaji Ishikawa • A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
“Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa.”