What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,…
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1. Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties
By: Laurie Edwards
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An inspiring guide to staying in control of your health care, your life, and your dreams despite ha… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- nonfiction
- disability
- self help
2. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
By: Sonya Huber
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like … read more
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3. How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
By: Sylvia Boorstein , Toni Bernhard
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
This life-affirming, instructive, and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is--o… read more
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4. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
- audiobook
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
5. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- health
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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- memoir
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- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
7. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
8. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
9. Sick Kids in Love
By: Hannah Moskowitz
4.11
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier-- It's safer-- It's better-- --for the other person… read more
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- disability
- audiobook
"Do you ever just…"-Hannah Moskowitz, Sick Kids in Love
"I mean, I certainly find being sick only affects me in really specific situations,"-Hannah Moskowitz, Sick Kids in Love
"A good relationship isn't something you have to gather up strength to do, it's where you recharge."-Hannah Moskowitz, Sick Kids in Love
"There should be Oscars for real life, and we should give them to all the people who are still married."-Hannah Moskowitz, Sick Kids in Love
10. Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
By: Megan Nix
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This "compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An i… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
11. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
By: Haben Girma
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Audiobook
Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
12. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
By: Abby Norman
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- disability
"I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too."-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertaine…"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
13. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
14. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
By: Keah Brown
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtfu… read more
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- memoir
- disability
- audiobook
"There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"I know that I'm not the first person in the world to say "I love music; it saved me." But that doesn't make it less true."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
15. Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
By: Michele Lent Hirsch
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be hea… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
"Shared physical vulnerability, we learned, can become a bizarre aphrodisiac, A bond that is gross and uncomfortable but ultimately positive. Not so when it is just one of you and the health issue isn…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
"Language is a tricky thing, especially when we try to capture what's happening in our bodies and in our culture. Words like "health," "healthy," "sick," "illness," and "disability" are always relativ…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
"Maybe it sounds like a compliment, You're too young , something to show that you look youthful and vibrant and all. Maybe it's just a refrain I should learn to ignore. But when I talk with other youn…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
"A number of people I've interviewed have gently pointed out that a disability doesn't have to look like the one clean narrative we see in movies or on feel-good shows, the kind where a person using a…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
16. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- memoir
- health
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
17. Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
By: Ben Mattlin
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A disabled journalist documents how the “ADA Generation” has grown up, the rise of neurodiversity, … read more
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- health
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
18. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
By: Sarah Ramey
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of co… read more
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- health
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
19. Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms
By: Ilana Jacqueline
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“An important antidote to the dogmatic ‘kale and vitamins’ tone of most ‘self-help’ literature.” —A… read more
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- self help
- health
- medical
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
20. Sick: A Memoir
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.34
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of c… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"And the deal with so many chronic illnesses is that most people won't want to believe you. They will tell you that you look great, that it might be in your head only, that it is likely stress, that e…"-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
"It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that wo…"-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
21. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
By: Emma Bolden
4.51
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
For readers of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour’s Sick , this exquisitely w… read more
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