I really enjoyed the following books:
1. "Sempre Susan" by Sigrid Nunez, Nunez' memoir about Susan Sontag. Short, but interesting. I also liked Nunez' "The Friend."
2. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese, his epic about indo-ethiopians that grow up in an Addis Ababa hospital. Definitely the best novel about fistulae that I've ever read.