16 Books to Curl Up With This Fall
With the switch of summer to fall comes an exciting and varied new book list—Ring in the new season with these twisted fantasies, profound autobiographies and vivid collections of short stories.
By Roxane Gay, Leigh Haber and Sarah Meyer
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Black Man in a White Coat
By Damon Tweedy, MD
304 pages;
Picador
A proud med student at Duke, Tweedy was rocked to the core when a professor assumed he was a janitor who'd come to fix the classroom lights. In this fascinating, heartbreaking memoir, Tweedy documents his experiences as an African American doctor in a medical system that can be "just as sick as its patients."
— Sarah Meyer
Published 08/17/2015