Read or listen to the October 2025 podcast of Katherine Hochman's interview by NEJM Catalyst: Building Community and Empathy Through Health Care Book Clubs.
Access through your local pubic library for book copies, digital or print. New York Public Library offers a free online library access to people aged 13 or older who live, work, attend school, or pay property taxes in New York State. Sign up for an NYPL digital library card today. Read online through the Kindle or Libby app. Reach out to NYU Health Sciences Library if we can help!
NYU Langone Health's Patient Experience Book Club led by Dr. Katherine Hochman, MD is open to all members of the NYU Langone Health community. Through this book club employees engage in shared reading experiences that highlight the patient's point of view in a variety of complex healthcare situations. The book club welcomes new members! NYU Health Sciences Library provides print copies to employees of NYU Langone Health through our Document Delivery Service. (If you have not created a Document Delivery account, you must create one through the link first.) Then sign in through the link to request any of the titles below. You may pick up at the library or request delivery to your home address. Happy reading!
The Patient Experience Book Club's 2026 activities are made possible with support from The Auxiliary of NYU Langone Health.
| January | Booster Shots by Adam Ratner |
| February | James by Percival Everett |
| March |
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland |
| April | More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen |
| May | Pieces You'll Never Get Back by Samina Ali |
| June | The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater |
| July | Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif |
| August | Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt |
| September | Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver |
| October | Assume Nothing by Tanya Selvarathnam |
| November | Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green |
| December | Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat |
Links to eBook full text for reading online, when available. All books are available by request through Document Delivery. If you have not created a Document Delivery account, you must create one. Within your account, you may enter book details (author, title, etc) to request.