• The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
• A.J. Cronin's 1937 novel The Citadel
• A Piece of My Mind: A New Collection of Essays from JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
• House of God by Samuel Shem, John Updike (Introduction)
• The Man Who Grew Two Breasts: And Other True Tales of Medical Detection by Berton Roueche (Paperback - May 1996) (whole series by this author)
• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen (Paperback - August 1997)
• A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As a Medical Student by Perri Klass (Paperback - July 1994) I believe this one is written by a woman and mother
• Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor by Robert Marion (Mass Market Paperback - April 1993)
• The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor by Robert Marion (Paperback - September 2001)
• First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin (Mass Market Paperback - April 1994)
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (Paperback)
• Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School by Melvin, Md. Konner, Melvin J. Konner (Paperback - July 1988)
• The Intern Pocket Survival Guide by Thomas M. Masterson (Paperback - January 1992)
• The Washington Manual Internship Survival Guide by Tammy L. Lin, et al (Paperback - April 2001)
• Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics by Gregory E. Pence (Paperback)
• The Med School Survival Guide : How to Make the Challenges of Med School Seem Like Small Stuff by Jennifer Danek M.D.
• Kill As Few Patients As Possible by Oscar London
• Becoming a Physician: A Practical and Creative Guide to Planning a Career in Medicine by Jennifer Danek, Marita Danek
• Rotations by Robert Marion (not as highly recommended)
• Intern by Doctor X
• Anything by Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, etc. Both of these authors have written numerous medical fiction thriller novels. Robin Cook has a book (his first one, I believe) that is semi-autobiographical called Year of the Intern and discusses his experiences as a new resident.

- from a google thread

• Complications by Atul Gawande
• Compassion's Way: A Doctor's Quest into the Soul of Medicine by Ralph Crawshaw
• Death, Society and Human Experience by Robert J. Kastenbaum
• First Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin
• Human Side of Medicine by Laurence A., MD Savett
• Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic of the Making of a Doctor by Robert Marion, MD
• Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death by Anatole Broyard
  • Kill as Few Patients as Possible by Oscar London, MD
  • Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor by Robert Marion, MD
  • White Coat by Ellen Lerner Rothman
  • A Casebook of Medical Ethics by Terrance F. Ackerman & Carson Strong
  • The New Medicine and the Old Ethics by Albert R. Jonsen
  • Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs by Leon Kass, MD
  • A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perry Klaus, MD
  • The Med School Survival Guide by Jennifer Danek M.D.
  • How to Choose a Medical Specialty by Anita D. Taylor
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks
  • Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzar, MD
• The House of God by Samuel Shem, MD, PhD
• Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas, MD

from http://web.mit.edu/~career/www/preprof/medexplore.html