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Chronic Illness Books
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 209,295 ratings — published 2019
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,631 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,136 ratings — published 2022
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,986 ratings — published 2021
Sick Kids in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,250 ratings — published 2019
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,110 ratings — published 2010
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,922 ratings — published 2021
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 630 ratings — published 2015
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.94 — 50,007 ratings — published 2020
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.49 — 439 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,767,159 ratings — published 2012
The Matzah Ball (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.62 — 23,099 ratings — published 2021
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 260,159 ratings — published 2018
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.44 — 17,675 ratings — published 2020
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.77 — 294 ratings — published 2008
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 222,566 ratings — published 2021
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,728 ratings — published 2018
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,278 ratings — published 2012
Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.05 — 862 ratings — published 2018
You Don't Look Sick!: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.00 — 292 ratings — published 2005
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,653,647 ratings — published 2023
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,464 ratings — published 2020
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 488 ratings — published 2017
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 681,919 ratings — published 2015
The Two Kinds of Decay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,531 ratings — published 2008
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.89 — 176,320 ratings — published 2015
With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,821 ratings — published 2021
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 129,790 ratings — published 2021
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 288,665 ratings — published 2014
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,812 ratings — published 2021
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.79 — 801 ratings — published 2017
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 515 ratings — published 2017
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,036 ratings — published 1926
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,478 ratings — published 2014
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,666 ratings — published 2022
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,869 ratings — published 2021
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,070 ratings — published 2018
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.66 — 163 ratings — published 1992
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,129 ratings — published 2021
Sick: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,443 ratings — published 2018
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,157 ratings — published 2003
Reel (Hollywood Renaissance, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,467 ratings — published 2021
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,173 ratings — published 2018
Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 132,338 ratings — published 2024
One for All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,687 ratings — published 2022
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,049 ratings — published 2020
Love from A to Z (A Coming-of-Age Romance)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,878 ratings — published 2019
Tender Points (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.48 — 810 ratings — published 2015
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,889 ratings — published 1989
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,970 ratings — published 2003
“Having a chronic illness, Molly thought, was like being invaded. Her grandmother back in Michigan used to tell about the day one of their cows got loose and wandered into the parlor, and the awful time they had getting her out. That was exactly what Molly's arthritis was like: as if some big old cow had got into her house and wouldn't go away. It just sat there, taking up space in her life and making everything more difficult, mooing loudly from time to time and making cow pies, and all she could do really was edge around it and put up with it.
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.”
― The Last Resort
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.”
― The Last Resort
“Incurable, hopeless, excessive, organic, ill: this is the language of chronic disease, of the static bodies it indexes and the defective temporalities it engenders. The modality of the chronic, then, is less safely habitual than the compromised, the unconjugated, the "would" in the sense of being able or unable to realize one's will.”
― Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
― Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
