12 best-selling nonfiction books like Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history by Katerina Bryant

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Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties: Stories book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Similar categories in Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

"Life can turn out a million ways. - Pg. 82"

-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector

"Every second of every day has its own magic. - Pg. 163-4"

-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector

"The world had become like an exhibit at Ward’s museum: pretty and nostalgic and watered down, something old and sealed off you weren’t allowed to touch. - Pg. 204"

-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector

"He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day's light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight…"

-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3) book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Happening book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir

"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

Similar categories in Jamila Rowser's Wash Day Diaries book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

Similar categories in Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

Similar categories in Chloé Cooper Jones's Easy Beauty book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• disability

"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

Similar categories in Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• medical
• nonfiction
• history

"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

Similar categories in Selma Blair's Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• nonfiction
• disability

"To outlive your child is the worst grief, my mother said later that night."

-Selma Blair, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• memoir
• mental health

"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

"I can do this. I can learn. I can survive."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"What I want has nothing to do with who wins." -Ouyang"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"With sufficient competence, there's no need of flattery"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

Similar categories in Alice Te Punga Somerville's Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Similar categories in Kylie Maslen's Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• nonfiction
• disability

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Girlhood book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• memoir

"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

Similar categories in Jill Gutowitz's Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• memoir

"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Similar categories in Torie Jean's Finding Gene Kelly book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• disability

Similar categories in Jessica Kirkness's The House With All The Lights On book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• disability

Similar categories in Kandi Steiner's Rush (Palm South University, #1) book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

Similar categories in Molly McCully Brown's Places I've Taken My Body: Essays book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• disability

"Constant motion camouflages the extent to which I'm alien even to myself."

-Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

"We both know there's no returning to the beginning, no knowing who you've always been, no going home again. But we also know that there's no staying where you are: that the moment that your body sutu…"

-Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

"To work your way forward when you are permanently lost means, yes, to be exhausted and adrift, a stranger in a strange land. But... it also means living in a state of endless discovery. The world unf…"

-Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

Similar categories in Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history book and Katerina Bryant's Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history

• history
• biography
• memoir
• medical
• mental health
• nonfiction
• disability