| Honoree | Book Title | Book Author | Year Honored |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Distinguished Professor and Henry Samueli Chair Biomedical Engineering | Memoirs of Hadrian | Yourcenar, Marguerite | 2023 |
| Alexandre Chan, Department Chair and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Murakami, Haruki | 2023 |
| Autumn Ivey, Associate Professor, Pediatrics | The Disordered Cosmos | Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda | 2023 |
| Homegoing | Gyasi, Yaa | ||
| Mark Lazenby, Dean and Professor, Nursing | Blood Meridian | McCarthy, Cormac | 2023 |
| Melissa Pinto, Associate Professor, Nursing | The Midnight Library | Haig, Matt | 2023 |
| The Love & Lemons Cookbook | Donofrio, Jeanine | ||
| Harinder Singh, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Medical Education, Physiology & Biophysics | The Gene: An Intimate History | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | 2023 |
| Understanding Medical Education | Swanwick, Tim et al. | ||
| Robert Steele, Professor, Biological Chemistry | The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | 2023 |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Murakami, Haruki | ||
| Constance Steinkuehler, Professor, Informatics | The Magic Mountain | Mann, Thomas | 2023 |
| Heike Thiele de Bocanegra, Adjunct Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology | The Kite Runner | Hosseini, Khaled | 2023 |
| The Kurdish Bike: A Novel | Lightbourne, Alesa | ||
| Bernadette Boden-Albala, Director and Founding Dean | Quantum | Cornwell, Patricia | 2020 |
| Murder in the Sentier | Black, Cara | ||
| Encylopedia of Plague & Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present | Kohn, George C. | ||
| Jan Hirsch, Director and Founding Dean, Pharmaceutical Sciences | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Christie, Agatha | 2020 |
| Leesa Li, Co-President, Associated Medical Student Government | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Mukherjee, Siddhartha and Sanders, Fred, et al. | 2020 |
| Ajay Nair Sharma, Co-President, Associated Medical Student Government | Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey - and Even Iraq - Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport | Kuper, Simon and Szymanski, Stefan | 2020 |
| Luohua Jiang, Associate Professor | Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | Dweck, Carol S. and Dunne, Bernadette, et al. | 2020 |
| Nakia C. Best, Assistant Professor | The Color Purple | Walker, Alice | 2020 |
| The Universal Ethiopian Students' Association 1927-1947: Mobilizing Diaspora | Anthony, TaKeia N | ||
| Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Professor and Chair, Department of Population and Health Disease Prevention | How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease | Greger, Michael and Stone, Gene, et al. | 2020 |
| Gaia, A New Look at Life on Earth | Lovelock, J.E. | ||
| Steve A. N. Goldstein, Vice Chancellor | Cutting for Stone | Verghese, Abraham | 2020 |
| Charles P. Vega, Executive Director PRIME-LC | Rabbit, Run | Updike, John | 2019 |
| Margaret Schneider, Pilot Grant Direction | Eats, Shoots & Leaves | Truss, Lynne | 2019 |
| Tiffany K. Nielsen, Assistant Clinical Professor | The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures | Johansson, Frans | 2019 |
| Chad T. Lefteris, Chief Operating Officer | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Goodwin, Doris Kearns | 2019 |
| Dawn Marie Elfenbein, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery | The Poisonwood Bible | Kingsolver, Barbara | 2019 |
| Will Minteer, Co-President, Associated Medical Student Government | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Diamond, Jared | 2019 |
| Tara Zand, Co-President, Associated Medical Student Government | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Rowling, J.K. | 2019 |
| Miriam Bender, Assistant Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Rhodes, Richard | 2018 |
| Mother Nature: a History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection | Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer | ||
| Penny Murata, Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics School of Medicine | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | 2018 |
| The Once and Future King | T.H. White | ||
| Susan Christensen, Director of Medical Surgical Services | The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 2018 |
| Ryan Gibney, Association of Medical Student Government | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Bourdain, Anthony | 2018 |
| Jamie Miller, Association of Medical Student Government | Ready Player One | Cline, Ernest | 2018 |
| Lisa Reiser, Chief Patient Care Services | Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul | Canfield, Jack | 2006 |
| Frank Meyskens, Director of the Chao Family Comprehensive Can. | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Diamond, Jared | 2006 |
| Warren Wiechmann, Co-President | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Levitt, Steven D | 2006 |
| Michael Stamos, Professor and John E. Connolly Chair in Surgery | Surgery: A Clinical Approach | Stamos, Michael | 2006 |
| Douglas Wallace, Professor of Molecular Medicine & Director | The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher | Lewis, Thomas | 2006 |
| Gail Ryan Raphael, Co-President | The Rule of Four | Caldwell, Ian | 2006 |
| Lloyd Rucker, Vice Chair for Education | Time to Heal : American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care | Ludmerer, Kenneth | 2006 |
| Alan Jeffery, Co-Owner | Je me souvien (As I remember) | Geoffrion, Robert Donat | 2007 |
| Mary Knudtson, HS Clinical Professor | No Excuses | Maynard, Karl | 2007 |
| Dana Stradling, RN, Nursing Informaticist | The Best Loved Poems of the American People | Felleman, Hazel | 2007 |
| Neda Mehr, Co-President | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Albom, Mitch | 2007 |
| David Bailey, Vice Chancellor, Health Affairs; Dean, School of Medicine; Professor of Pathology | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir | Bryson, Bill | 2007 |
| Darren Raphael, Co-President | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century | Friedman, Thomas L. | 2007 |
| Carl Schultz, Clinical Professor | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper | 2007 |
| Jeff Suchard, Professor of Clinical EM | The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 2007 |
| Federico Vaca, Associate Professor | Orthodoxy | Chesterton, C.K | 2007 |
| Charles Nguyen, Assistant Clinical Professor and director | A beautiful mind: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 | Nasar, Sylvia | 2008 |
| Laura Mosqueda, Director and physician | Buddah | Armstrong, Karen | 2008 |
| Ellen Lewis, HS Associate Director | Mother, heal my self: An intergenerational healing journey between two worlds | Koerner, JoEllen Goertz | 2008 |
| Boback Zianeian, Co-President | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | 2008 |
| Jim Herron, AVC- SoM, UCI Retiree | The Appeal | Grisham, John | 2008 |
| Amish Dangodara, HS Clinical Professor-Hospitalist Program | The Golden Bough | Frazer, James G. | 2008 |
| Ellen Olshsnsky, Professor of Nursing Science | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper | 2008 |
| Thomas Cesario, Professor Emeritus | William Osler: A life in medicine | Bliss, Michael | 2008 |
| Luanne Sims, Assistant Director Cancer Center | Wooden: A lifetime of observations and reflections on and off the court | Wooden, John | 2008 |
| Ralph Clayman, Professor and Dean of School of Medicine | Good to great: Why some companies make the leap--and others don't | Collins, James | 2009 |
| Ma. Dalor King, Clinical Nurse IV | Journal of WOCN | 2009 | |
| Kenneth Chang, MD, FACG, FASGE Professor and Chief of Gastro. | Life Application Bible : New Revised Standard Version | Tyndale House Publishers | 2009 |
| Jeff Mercer, Resident Physician | Lonesome Dove | McMurtry, Larry | 2009 |
| Zeev Kain, Professor and Chair | Our iceberg is melting: Changing and succeeding under any conditions | Kotter, John P. | 2009 |
| Gay Serway, Director, Special Projects | The difference maker: Making your attitude your greatest asset | Maxwell, John C. | 2009 |
| Aileen Anderson, Associate Professor | The Munschworks Grand Treasury | Munsch, Robert | 2009 |
| Leslie Michels Thompson, Professor | The Poisonwood Bible | Kingsolver, Barbara | 2009 |
| Rick Williams, Medical Media Manager | The Power of One | Courtenay, Bryce | 2009 |
| Peter Donovan, Professor | Touching the void: The true story of one man's miraculous survival | Simpson, Joe | 2009 |
| Daniel Gromis, Co-President | Overdo$ed America: The broken promise of American medicine | Abramson, John | 2009 |
| Steve Clancy, Health Sciences Librarian | Slack, Adrian | 2010 | |
| Terry Belmont, Chief Executive Officer | Leading Change | Kotter, John P. | 2010 |
| Bob Johnson, Health Sciences Librarian | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Kundera, Milan | 2010 |
| Jennifer McBride, Co-President | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Hurston, Zora Neale | 2010 |
| Katherine Hartzell , Co-President | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper | 2010 |
| Linda Murphy , Health Sciences Librarian | Yes, my darling daughter | Leroy, Margaret | 2010 |
| Linda Lippa, HS Clinical Professor | A Year in Provence | Mayle, Peter | 2011 |
| Shahram Lotfipour, Professor of EM & Public Health | Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking | Bickley, Lynn S. | 2011 |
| Brian Kim, Co-President | Decoded | Jay-Z | 2011 |
| Scott Goodwin, Professor and Chair | Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap--and others don't | Collins, James | 2011 |
| Ronald Miller, Clinical Professor Emeritus | Snakes: The evolution of mystery in nature | Greene, Harry W. | 2011 |
| Sonia Sehgal, Associate Clinical Professor | The Art of Happiness: A handbook for living | the Dalai Lama | 2011 |
| Anna Morgan, Co-President | White Teeth | Smith, Zadie | 2011 |
| Michael O'Leary, Co-President | AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the geography of blame | Farmer, Paul | 2012 |
| Michael Eskander, Resident Physician, Co-President AMSG | Better: A surgeon's notes on performance | Gawande, Atul | 2012 |
| Camille Fitzpatrick, HS Clinical Professor | The Art of Racing in the Rain | Stein, Garth | 2012 |
| Megan Osborn Boysen, Assistant Clinical Professor | The Bluest Eye | Morrison, Toni | 2012 |
| Bill Barron, Chief Medical Officer at UCIMC | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 2012 |
| Justin T. Hata, Assistant Clinical Professor | The Fountainhead | Rand, Ayn | 2012 |
| Mark Langdorf, Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine | 2012 | |
| Diana Cholakian, Co-President | Cutting for Stone | Verghese, Abraham | 2013 |
| Bethany Harris, Research Librarian for Health Sciences | Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr | Puller, Lewis B. | 2013 |
| Susan Claster, Professor and MD | Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in that House | Daum, Meghan | 2013 |
| Debi Boyle, Clinical Nurse Specialist | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | 2013 |
| Johnny Delashaw, MD and Chair | The Odyssey | Homer | 2013 |
| Lisa Gibbs, Professor and MD | Van Gogh, A Retrospective | Stein, Susan Alyson, ed. | 2013 |
| Martin Hofmann, Co-President | A Fine Balance | Mistry, Rohinton | 2014 |
| Susan Huang, Professor | Danny, the champion of the world | Dahl, Roald | 2014 |
| Cynthia Johnson, Head Librarian | Persuasion | Austen, Jane | 2014 |
| Bryan Brandon, Co-President | Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the mysteries of the human mind | Ramachandran, V.S. | 2014 |
| Richard A. Van Etten, Professor | The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of cancer | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | 2014 |
| Sherrie H. Kaplan, Professor, Assistant Vice-Chancellor | All the Light We Cannot See | Doerr, Anthony | 2015 |
| Kerry Burnight, Professor | Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end | Gawande, Atul | 2015 |
| Sheldon Greenfield, Professor, Executive Co-Director Health Policy Research Institute | Lawrence in Arabia: War, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East | Anderson, Scott | 2015 |
| Eric Ballon-Landa, Co-President | Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain | Sacks, Olivier | 2015 |
| Charles Limoli, Professor | The Disappearing Spoon: And other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements | Kean, Sam | 2015 |
| Divya Shenoy, Co-President | The God of Small Things | Roy, Arundhati | 2015 |
| Z. David Luo, Professor | The Seat of the Soul | Zukav, Gary | 2015 |
| Sidney H. Golub, Director, Professor Emeritus | Catch-22 | Heller, Joseph | 2016 |
| Kevin Labadie, Co-President | Cutting for Stone | Verghese, Abraham | 2016 |
| Shryl Sistrunk, Senior Associate Dean and Professor | Cutting for Stone | Verghese, Abraham | 2016 |
| Husain Majid, Co-President | Outliers: The Story of Success | Gladwell, Malcolm | 2016 |
| Munjal M. Acharaya, Assistant Professor | The Alchemist | Coehlo, Paulo | 2016 |
| Richard J. Kelly, Associate Clinical Professor | The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Brown, Daniel | 2016 |
| Dara H. Sorkin, Associate Professor | Thinking, fast and slow | Kahneman, Daniel | 2016 |
| Julie Rousseau, Associate Clinical Professor | Wemberly Worried | Henkes, Kevin | 2016 |
| Greg Chinn, Co-President | The Truth About Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it | Angell, Marcia | 2008, 2009, 2013 |
| Adey Nyamathi, Founding Dean, Nursing Science | Aching for Tomorrow: Poems | Meyskens, F.L. |
2017 |
| Anne Calof, Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology | Cryptonomicon | Stephenson, Neal | 2017 |
| Hector Perez, Research Librarian for Health Sciences | You Can Heal Your Life | Hay, Louise L. | 2017 |
| Howard Federoff, Vice Chancellor, Health Affairs and CEO, UCI Health System | The Last Days of Night | Moore, Graham | 2017 |
| Kate Bowman, Co-President, Associated Medical Student Government | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Rowling, J.K. | 2017 |
| Khanh-Van Le-Bucklin, Senior Associate Dean, Medical Education and Executive Vice Chair/Interim Chair, Department of Pediatrics | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sandberg, Sheryl; Scovell, Nell | 2017 |
| Pat Patton, Chief Nursing Officer | Once Upon a Town: the Miracle of the North Platte Canteen | Green, Bob | 2017 |
| Taylaur Smith, Co-President, Associated Medical Student Government | A Game of Thrones | Martin, George R.R. | 2017 |
