My Own Country: A Doctor's StoryModern · Nonfiction, Memoir, Medicine
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
1994 · 432 pages · Nonfiction
47
Modern
★ 4.23 on Goodreads · 14K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1994). 4.23★ from 14K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
47Must-Read Score
- Readers83 out of 100 · counts 40%+38
- Critics24 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+9
- Bestseller3 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #54 of the 87 science and ideas books we rank
- #107 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #283 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #627 of the 1,405 books we rank
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1994)
Reads as
True story
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