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…
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1. The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
By: Maureen Murdock
4.04
Format: 9 pages,
This workbook guides readers through the heroine's journey--the quest to heal the deep wounding of … read more
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- feminism
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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. If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
By: Donald Miller , Jamie Tworkowski
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
The New York TimesBestseller In 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Ar… read more
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4. 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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5. How to Stay Sane
By: Philippa Perry
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everyone accepts the importance of physical health: isn't it just as important to aim for the menta… read more
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6. 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
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- adult
7. 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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"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
8. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to he… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- health
"Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth."-Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
9. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
By: Taylor Harris
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed—about science and… read more
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10. Unstoppable Us, Vol. 2: Why the World Isn't Fair
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens,… read more
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- audiobook
11. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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12. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
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"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
13. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- disability
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"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
14. The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary
By: Clark Strand
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the … read more
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"In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. But the truth is, words came later. In the beginning was the rose."-Clark Strand, The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary
15. 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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- health
- medical
- feminism
- 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
16. Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge (Marion Lane, #3)
By: T.A. Willberg
3.69
Format: 352 pages, ebook
The raven had struck. And thing was, she knew exactly who was next…London, 1960. Marion Lane, a twe… read more
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17. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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18. 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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19. Grand: A Memoir
By: Sara Schaefer
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, comedian and E… read more
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20. Waste of a Life (Decluttering Mysteries #3)
By: Simon Brett
3.69
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Ellen Curtis is about to have her own life thrown into chaos in this third light-hearted declutteri… read more
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21. 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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- feminism
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- 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
22. 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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- adult
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23. 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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- disability
- audiobook
24. 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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- disability
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"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
25. Anna Bright Is Hiding Something
By: Susie Orman Schnall
3.56
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The Dropout meets Inventing Anna in this cinematic and page-turning summer read! A ripped-from-the-… read more
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- audiobook
26. American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
By: Jennifer Lunden
4.07
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves … read more
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27. #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
By: David Hogg
4.14
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declarati… read more
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"If you want to overthrow the government, you’re not really conservative anymore."-David Hogg, #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
28. Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
By: Sadie Dingfelder
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind, and investigates the neuroscience of sig… read more
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- adult
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29. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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30. The Glass Girl
By: Kathleen Glasgow
4.39
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more
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31. The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
By: Gayle Brandeis
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history… read more
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