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Award Winning Books About Medicine and Illness

93 books from 19 lists, 1924 to 2025

Medicine gives writers a subject where the stakes need no explaining, which is why the books here win prizes in every category. Histories of disease sit with novels about doctors and memoirs of being ill, and the epidemics turn up often enough to read as a running theme of the last century.

Books by prize

One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.