Livre d'Or

I didn't think that I could contribute anything as I'm not much of a reader, but I'll suggest The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber. It's set in the near future and the main character is an evangelical Christian who is recruited to be the pastor to a group of aliens on a distant planet. One of the interesting aspects of it from a doctorling perspective is that the aliens lack the ability to heal, so it explores what it's like to be a human that is capable of healing. It explores issues of love, faith and the human condition. It might also be of interest because Faber is an atheist who misses having a faith and his wife was diagnosed and died of cancer over the course of his writing the book, so he's doing a lot of thinking about love and faith and disease on the page.