Drama
• W;t by Margaret Edson
  
  
• Medical Reader's Theater: A Guide and Scripts ed. T.L. Savitt
  
  Fiction
• "A Nurse's Story" from A Nurse's Story and Others by Peter Baida
  
  
• Regeneration by Pat Barker
  
  
• Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
  
  
• The Plague by Albert Camus
  
  
• "We are Nighttime Travelers" from Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin
  
  
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver
  
  
• He's at the Office by Allan Gurganus
  
  
• You Are Not A Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
  
  
• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  
  
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  
  
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  
  
• Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
  
  
• "People Like That Are the Only People Here" from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
  
  
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
  
  
• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
  
  
• The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy
  
  Non-Fiction
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  
  
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
  
  
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
  
  
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
  
  
• Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War by Margaret R. Higonnet
  
  
• "On Being a Cripple" from Plain Text by Nancy Mairs
  
  
• Turkegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Studies in Social Medicine) edited by Susan Reverby
  
  
• Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
  
  Poetry
• Without by Donald Hall
  
  
• Otherwise: Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon
  
  
• Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill, poems by Veneta Masson
  
  
• The Book of Job trans. Stephen Mitchell
  
  
• Between the Heart Beats: Poetry & Prose by Nurses edited by Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer
  
  

updated March, 2005