8 must-read biography memoir books like What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin Williams

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What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

By: Erin Williams

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, …

If you liked the biography memoir plot in What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin Williams , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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2. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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3. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

By: Julia Wertz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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4. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

Similar categories in Vera Brosgol's Plain Jane and the Mermaid book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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5. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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6. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hulls's Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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7. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

By: Ai Weiwei

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more

Similar categories in Ai Weiwei's Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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8. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Gallagher's Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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9. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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10. The Fox Maidens

By: Robin Ha

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korea… read more

Similar categories in Robin Ha's The Fox Maidens book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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11. Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir

By: Denise Dorrance

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , an unputdownable debut graphic The what… read more

Similar categories in Denise Dorrance's Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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12. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Lavender Clouds

By: Bex Ollerton

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lavender Clouds is a collection of autobiographical comics about mental health, neurodiversity and … read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Lavender Clouds book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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15. What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

By: Erin Williams

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, … read more

Similar categories in Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • graphic novels
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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16. The New Girl (The New Girl #1)

By: Cassandra Calin

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with thi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Calin's The New Girl (The New Girl #1) book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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17. Look Again

By: Elizabeth A. Trembley

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Once, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead body. Trauma can m… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth A. Trembley's Look Again book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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19. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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20. Brittle Joints

By: Maria Sweeney

4.54

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disabil… read more

Similar categories in Maria Sweeney's Brittle Joints book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • memoir
  • health
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
Cover of Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager

21. Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory

By: Solomon J. Brager

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-sh… read more

Similar categories in Solomon J. Brager's Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory book and Erin Williams's What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

16 must-read nonfiction books like What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin Williams

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Julia Wertz

4.35

Transform Your Habits

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

4.52

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14 Best adult books like This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

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