Atul Gawande Books in Order
Atul Gawande has written 5 books, published between 2002 and 2014. The first book is Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002) and the newest is Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2002–2014
- Pages on record
- 914 in 3 of 5 books
- Reading time
- 15–23 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 914 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer and public health researcher, born November 5, 1965. Gawande practises general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and holds the Samuel O. Thier Professorship of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, along with a professorship in health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Gawande has chaired Ariadne Labs, a center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit working to cut surgical deaths worldwide. Books include Complications (2002), Better (2007), The Checklist Manifesto (2009) and Being Mortal (2014), with subjects such as surgery, dying and geriatrics.
How many Atul Gawande books are there?
Atul Gawande has 5 books, released between 2002 and 2014.
Atul Gawande Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Atul Gawande books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science2002 · 269 pages · confirmed 1/420022691/4
- 2The Best American Science Writing 2006Best American Science Writing #42006 · 362 pages · confirmed 2/420063622/4
- 3Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 4The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 5Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End2014 · 283 pages · confirmed 1/420142831/4
Atul Gawande books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Best American Science Writing in order
1 bookStandalone books
4 books4 Atul Gawande titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Atul Gawande books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 5 Atul Gawande books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Atul Gawande
Start with Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Atul Gawande book?
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014) is the newest Atul Gawande book released so far.
Is there a new Atul Gawande book coming?
No next Atul Gawande book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Award nominations for Atul Gawande
Wikidata records 1 nomination for Atul Gawande. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Award for Nonfiction2002Shortlisted
Atul Gawande at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Atul Gawande title on record dates from 2014, 12 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Atul Gawande books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 914 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 283 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Atul Gawande books, 4 of 5, were published in the 2000s.
What the Atul Gawande books are about
3 of the 5 Atul Gawande books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Activities of Daily Living 1 of 3 books
- Anecdotes 1 of 3 books
- Attitude to Death 1 of 3 books
- Biography 1 of 3 books
- Chirurg 1 of 3 books
- Conduct of life 1 of 3 books
- Critical care medicine 1 of 3 books
- Dying 1 of 3 books
- Expedition 1 of 3 books
- Geriatrics 1 of 3 books
- Medicine 1 of 3 books
- Reisen und Expeditionen 1 of 3 books