Gloria's Favorite Books & Stuff
List of books I love and
useful things for note-taking
¡Hola, hola!
People often ask me for book recommendations, and I always promise to share a list. While reorganizing my books, I decided it was the perfect time to finally follow through!
This list includes books on medicine, translation, interpreting, language, and related topics that are both fun and interesting. Some I’ve read, while others are still on my to-read list. It’s not a definitive collection, as I plan to keep adding to it. I’m not suggesting you need to buy all these books, but I do find them useful and reliable. Most books are written in English and some are in Spanish.
Don’t forget, pre-owned books are fantastic! I’ve bought several second-hand books, and they’re often much cheaper than the latest editions. Plus, I have two great reasons for doing so: I’m saving a book from ending up in a landfill, and let’s be honest, the human body hasn’t exactly changed between editions. Tee-hee!
I’ve also included a list of useful tools for note-taking, ranging from notepads and pens to tablets.
Science and languages are constantly evolving, so if you come across a broken link or have a book recommendation you’d like me to add to the list, feel free to reach out at info@blueurpi.com.
Happy learning!
Gloria
ps. For most books, I included a link to Amazon. There, you can find a book review (to learn more about it) and ISBN (so you can buy a used edition and save one book from a landfill).
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Books - Languages
📘 Lengua española
- Ortografía de la lengua española por la RAE
- Ortografía y ortotipografía del español actual (OOTEA 3) por José Martínes de Sousa
- Libro de estilo de la lengua española por RAE y ASALE
- Normativa lingüística española y corrección de textos de Alicia María Zorrilla. El libro no está disponible, así que compré la versión electrónica en Libros del Zorzal.
📗 Idioma español
- El Español de los Estados Unidos por Anna María Escobar y Kim Potowski
- Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: el español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas por Manel Lacorte Peña, Luis A. Ortiz López
- Lo uno y lo diverso: La riqueza del idioma español por Instituto Cervantes
- 1001 curiosidades, palabras y expresiones de la lengua española por Fundeu
📕 English Language
🪧 Language and Linguistics
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
- The Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark
- Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
- An illustrated book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments) by Ali Almossawi (Author), Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator)
- The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure
- Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff
- The Edge of Meaning by James Boyd White
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
🤬 Cussing
- The Anatomy of Dirty Words by Edward Sagarin
- For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache
- Swearing Is Good for You by Emma Byrne
- Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language (Illustrated Edition) by Emma Byrne
- Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
- Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
- On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn
- Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? by Edwin Battistella
- Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets by Timothy Jay
- What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves by Benjamin K. Bergen
- Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English by Geoffrey Hughes
- Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter
- Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James.
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- Uglier Than a Monkey’s Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World by Dr. Robert Vanderplank
- Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell
🇵🇪 Cussing en español
- Estructura del insulto por Martín Alomo
- El chingonario por María del Pilar Montes de Oca Sicilia
Books - General Medical
👩🏻💻 Medical Terminology
- ❤️ The Language of Medicine (11th Edition) by Davi-Ellen Chabner BA MAT
- ❤️ Professional English in Use Medicine: Book with answers by Eric H. Glendinning (EN-UK)
- Medical Terminology: A Short Course (9th Edition) by Davi-Ellen Chabner
- The Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms: A Concise, Practical Guide to Etiology, Evaluation, and Treatment by Robert S. Porter
- Medical Terminology For Dummies (3rd Edition) by Henderson.
- Inglés Médico / Medical English (Spanish Edition) by Ribes, Ramon, Ros, Pablo R. (2010)
- Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish (2nd Edition) by Pilar Ortega, MD
- Lengua Médica (2da Edición) by Óscar G. Pamo Reyna: ISBN 9786124242267
👁️🗨️ Providers' Points of View
❤️ An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Just here, trying to save a few lives. Tales of life and death from the ER by Pamela Grim, MD
Danger to Self. On the frontlines with an ER psychiatrist by Paul R. Linde, MD
This is going to hurt. Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay
❤️ Nosotras, enfermeras: Historias de unos días que nos cambiaron para siempre by Enfermera Saturada (Hector Castineira) de España
Loquerías, manicomios y hospitales psiquiátricos de Lima por Santiago Stucchi Portocarrero
👤 Anatomy
- Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy (8th Edition) by Frank Netter
- Anatomy and Physiology in Healthcare (1st Edition) by Paul Marshall
- 30-Second Anatomy Edited by Gabrielle M. Finn
- Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies
- Anatomy & Physiology: A Complete Introduction
- Memmler’s The Human Body in Health and Disease
- Kay’s Anatomy by Adam Kay. [Fun facts about the human body]
- Gray. Anatomía básica (3.ª Edición)
👐🏼 Physical Exam
- Pocket Companion for Physical Examination & Health Assessment (9th Edition) by Carolyn Jarvis, PhD, APN, CNP
👁️🗨️ Disease's Points of View
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- A Mind of its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran
- An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale of Four Lives by Matt Richtel
- Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To. By Dean Burnett
Books - Medical
🧠 Psych
- ❤️ An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder by Susie Dent
- Las cuatro emociones básicas por Marcelo Antoni, Jorge Zentner
😩 Pain
- Dolor: Asistencia Clínica. Manejo en el ámbito médico-psicológico por Vicente Valentín Maganto, José Carlos Mingote Adán, Manuel López Espino
🧬 Genetics
- Genetics for Dummies (4th Edition)
- Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes
- The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine T. Bettinger
🏥 Healthcare Systems
- Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (8th Edition) by Leiyu Shi, Douglas A. Singh
- ❤️ This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay: Perspective of an OB/Gyn resident in the UK.
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD.
- Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER by Pamela Grim . (Emergency Room Doctor)
🪦 Death & Grief
- When Someone Dies: The Practical Guide to the Logistics of Death by Scott Taylor Smith
🍀 Drugs
- The Little Book of Marijuana. Mind-blowing Facts, History, Trivia and Recipes by Spruce
🌐 Diagnosis
Books: Translation & Interpreting
👩🏻💻Translation
- Translation: An advanced resource book (2nd Edition) for students by Basil Hatim, Jeremy Munday
- In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation (3rd Edition) Mona Baker
Español
- Introduction to Spanish Translation (2nd Edition) by Jack Child
- Thinking Spanish Translation (Thinking Translation) (2nd Edition) by Louise M. Haywood, Michael Thompson Sándor Hervey
- Introducción a la traducción: inglés < > español por Antonio F. Jiménez Jiménez
- Manual de traducción Inglés-Castellano por Juan Gabriel López Guix
- La traducción. El modelo interpretativo por Marianne Lederer. Traducido por Beatriz Rodriguez
- Taller de traducción: Guía práctica para la traducción de libros del inglés al español por Maite Fernández Estañán
- La traducción de la A a la Z por Vicente Fernández González
👩🏻💻Traductology
- Introducción a la traductología: Teorías y aplicaciones (4th Edition) por Jeremy Munday
- Translating as a Purposeful Activity (Translation Theories Explored) (2nd Edition) by Christiane Nord
- ❤️ Traducción y Traductología: Introducción a la traductología por Amparo Hurtado Albir
💬 Interpreting
- Medical Interpreting and Cross-cultural Communication by Claudia V. Angeleli
📑 Editing
- Revising and Editing for Translators (4th Edition) by Brian Mossop
👩🏻💻 About Translators and Interpreters
- Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
- ❤️ Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Untranslated Series) by Daniel Hahn
- Dancing On Ropes. Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslayan
- A Little Book of Language by David Crystal
- Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzschel
- Malinche by Laura Esquivel. Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed
👅Linguistics
Lingüistística aplicada a la traducción por Ángel López García, Montserrat Veyrat Rigat
Books: Culture
📘 Culture (Theory)
- ❤️ Communication Between Cultures (9th Edition) by Larry Samovar et al
- Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice by Dalia Magaña, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo
- ❤️ Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation by Michael Agar
- Culture – The Anthropologist’s Account (99) by Adam Kuper
- Culture by Terry Eagleton
📘 Translation & Culture
- The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture by Sue-Ann Harding, Ovidi Carbonell Cortés
- Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice by Dalia Magaña, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo
- ❤️ Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation by Michael Agar
🍵 Folk Medicine
💃🏻 Latino/Hispanic
❤️ Ask, Listen, Act: A New Model for Philanthropy by Luz Vega-Marquis
🤺 Conflic Resolution
- Don’t Mess with My Professionalism: How to Resolve Conflict Across Cultures by Vanessa Barros, PhD. How to deal with misunderstandings in a culturally diverse workplace.
🌏 Asian and Pacific Islander
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
🩺 Living with a condition
- Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (Parkinson Disease)
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison. (Asperger’s syndrome)
- The Story of My Life by Hellen Keller.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Still me by Christopher Reeve
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
📗 Indigenous People
- I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray
- Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
- Embracing Indigenous Knowledge in Science and Medical Teaching (Cultural Studies of Science Education, 10) by Mariana G. Hewson
- ❤️ Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future by Robert Henry, Amanda LaVallee
- Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota by Wallace Black Elk
LGBTQIA+, Gender, Diversity
📘 EN
- Seeing Gender by Iris Gottlieb
- This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
- A Queer History of The United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
- x+y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
- Fast Facts about LGBTQ+ Care for Nurses: How to Deliver Culturally Competent and Inclusive Care by Tyler Traister
- Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques
- The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker
- The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis
👎🏽 Race and Prejudice
- ❤️ White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- ❤️ Stereotypes and Prejudice (Key Readings in Social Psychology) by Charles Stangor
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
💻 ES
- Psicología del Genero por Vicki S. Helgeson
- Deshacer el género por Judith Butler
- Mujeres trans en el Perú: Historias de vida e identidad by Ximena Salazar Lostanau
- Libertad y Prejuicio: Reflexiones para la defensa de los derechos LGBTIQ+ editado por Yesenia Alvarez y Dieto Ato
- Me vestí de reina: Diez historias de vida drag en el Perú
- Manifiesto contrasexual de Paul B. Preciado
- Notas maricas por Facu Soto
- Sexualidades: Tensiones entre la psiquiatría y los colectivos militantes (Psicología) by Silvia Di Segni
- Propuesta de acuerdo sobre el lenguaje inclusivo por Álex Grijelmo
- La rebelión del género por Olga Montero Rose
- Furia travesti: Diccionario de la T a la T por Marlene Wayar
- La rebelión de las disidencias por La Montaña: Ediciones Socialistas
Note-Taking
📝 Pen & Paper
Pens
- Paper Mate Flair felt tip pen, medium point (0.7 mm), Black. I love this pen because it slides and I feel it writes faster!
- Sakura Pigma Micron fine liner pen, 10 Point. This is my favorite pen right now. It slides smoothly and does not bleed.
Notepads
- Note pad (lined): 8.5 inch x 11.75 inch, White. These are my favorite because this size fits in any pocket!
- Top spiral steno pad note pad (lined): 6×9 inches, white paper. White Paper. They are a bit too big for me, but some of my colleagues love them.
🤖 Digital/Electronic
- ❤️ iPad Mini (6th gen): Love it because it fits in my lab coat pocket at work, it is very light, the battery lasts a long time, and it saves trees!
- ❤️ Apple Pencil (2nd Generation): Smooth and never runs out of ink. The 1st generation is also good. I like this one because it attaches magnetically to the iPad, so I don’t lose it as often as I used to.
- ❤️ Screen protector: I have a Paperlike 2.0 for iPad Mini 8.3″ and makes it feel like I am writing on real paper. Whatever brand and model you choose, make sure it matches your iPad. Having a screen protector has saved me of replacing my screen many times.
- Apple Smart Folio for iPad Mini (6th Gen): It is not necessary to purchase exactly this one, just make sure it fits your iPad so you can protect your investment.
This is a live list that I’ll update regularly as I discover more resources. If you come across a broken link or have site suggestions, feel free to reach out at info@blueurpi.com
Happy Learning!
Gloria