26 Best memoir books like In Sickness: A Memoir by Barrett Rollins

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In Sickness: A Memoir

By: Barrett Rollins

3.77

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A medical emergency forces a brilliant Harvard oncologist to reveal that she has been hiding her ad…

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1. The Best of Us

By: Joyce Maynard

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the firs… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Every night, as we sat down together at the table, I still took Jim's hand and closed my eyes before we lifted our forks, our silent prayer." "There was no need to ask what we prayed for, though I wo…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Best of Us

"Those fourteen months had shaken me to my core, to the point where I no longer knew anything for sure except that parents should not look to their children to meet their needs. You don't adopt a chil…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Best of Us

"Not until we learned of his illness, and we walked the path of that terrible struggle together, did I understand what it meant to be a couple - to be a true partner and to have one. I learned the ful…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Best of Us

"Not all at once, but gradually, over the months, another revelation came to me: None of that other stuff, much as I'd loved it, was what made a marriage. Not restaurant dinners or romantic vacations.…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Best of Us

Cover of Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford

2. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Mimi Alford

3.58

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

In '62, Mimi Beardsley was a naive teen, a product of her class & time. She'd attended the same exc… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Alford's Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. At Home in the World

By: Joyce Maynard

4.31

Format: 110 pages,

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Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's At Home in the World book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

By: Julie Holland

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more

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Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

5. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

Similar categories in Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

7. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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8. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

Similar categories in Jay Wellons's All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton

10. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

By: Henry Marsh

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more

Similar categories in Henry Marsh's And Finally: Matters of Life and Death book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

13. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

By: Nathan H. Lents

3.95

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more

Similar categories in Nathan H. Lents's Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. All of This

By: Rebecca Woolf

3.93

Format: 256 pages, ebook

"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Woolf's All of This book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. In Sickness: A Memoir

By: Barrett Rollins

3.77

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A medical emergency forces a brilliant Harvard oncologist to reveal that she has been hiding her ad… read more

Similar categories in Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

By: Azra Raza

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience … read more

Similar categories in Azra Raza's The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Treating cancer as one disease is like treating Africa as one country."

-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

"There is one and only one goal for all of us—to ensure that all our intellectual efforts are directed toward the relief of humanity’s suffering."

-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

"The vast majority of researchers are studying diseases they never see, in animals who don’t get them spontaneously, or in test tubes where the “cancer"

-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

"We should not be aiming for weeks of improved survival. Our goals should be higher. The public needs to see how far we have drifted from the original aims as oncologists and researchers and at what c…"

-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

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17. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir

By: Kate Nason

4.17

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more

Similar categories in Kate Nason's Everything is Perfect: A Memoir book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma by John Melithoniotes

18. Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma

By: John Melithoniotes

4.31

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

There is no test of a couple’s bonds like the revelation that one of them has a life-threatening di… read more

Similar categories in John Melithoniotes's Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

19. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Riordan Jarvis's End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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20. Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation

By: Stefanie Schaffer

4.61

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Without Any Warning is a first-hand account of the accident that changed Stefanie Schaffer’s life—b… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Schaffer's Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

21. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

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22. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O'Brien

23. Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

By: Meredith O'Brien

4.32

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her … read more

Similar categories in Meredith O'Brien's Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns by Dina Gachman

24. So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

By: Dina Gachman

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author an… read more

Similar categories in Dina Gachman's So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Stage 5: A Cancer Journey

By: David Chill

4.44

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Stage 5: A Cancer Journey . This book tells the remarkable story of how David Chill overcame a term… read more

Similar categories in David Chill's Stage 5: A Cancer Journey book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • medical
Cover of I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss by Erin Benson

26. I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss

By: Erin Benson

4.34

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a story about a boy who lived. Or parents who risked it all to save their child. Or mir… read more

Similar categories in Erin Benson's I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

Cover of The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron

27. The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

By: William Dameron

3.94

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out. Do you know me?… read more

Similar categories in William Dameron's The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle by Clint Edwards

28. Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle

By: Clint Edwards

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

How Are You Doing? No, Really ... In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and s… read more

Similar categories in Clint Edwards's Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

29. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver by Rachel Michelberg

30. Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver

By: Rachel Michelberg

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what’s honorable, just a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Michelberg's Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

31. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

24 Best audiobook books like In Sickness: A Memoir by Barrett Rollins

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The Best of Us

Joyce Maynard

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

Mimi Alford

3.58

Transform Your Habits

At Home in the World

Joyce Maynard

4.31

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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11 must-read medical books like Stage 5: A Cancer Journey by David Chill

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All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

Ed Patrick

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

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