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The Lord's House Series

This series delves into the raw reality of medical training, where young interns grapple with grueling hours and immediate life-and-death decisions. With unflinching honesty and dark humor, it portrays the challenging journeys required to become a doctor. It explores not only medical skills but also the profound human transformations and ethical dilemmas inherent in the profession. A landmark of unvarnished medical fiction, it has resonated with readers for its brutal authenticity.

Mount Misery
The house of God
The Spirit of the Place

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    The house of God

    • 397 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.9(20458)Add rating

    As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top.Put another way it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up! Roy Basch, the 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.He hadn't even met any of the Gomers ('Get Out of My Emergency Room!'), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive!

    The house of God
  2. 2

    Mount Misery

    • 576 pages
    • 21 hours of reading
    3.8(1061)Add rating

    In trade paperback for the first time, the lacerating and brilliant novel of psychiatrists and patients--"[a] superbly incisive and witty sequel to Shem's bestselling "The House of God" ("Publisher's Weekly").

    Mount Misery
  3. 3

    The Spirit of the Place

    3.5(172)Add rating

    From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

    The Spirit of the Place