Chronic Illness Books

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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by: Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by: Ed Cohen
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,361 ratings
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Within These Four Walls
Within These Four Walls 4.59 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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Everything is Always Changing
Everything is Always Changing 4.83 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,131 ratings
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How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers 4.19 avg rating — 2,514 ratings
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Living With Long-term Illness: Essays on Hope, Healing & Mental Health
Living With Long-term Illness: Essays on Hope, Healing & Mental Health 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Please Read This Leaflet Carefully
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully 3.78 avg rating — 754 ratings
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Within These Four Walls
Within These Four Walls 4.59 avg rating — 106 ratings
12.
Wit
Wit 4.14 avg rating — 17,229 ratings
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System 4.32 avg rating — 463 ratings
14.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.14 avg rating — 205,007 ratings
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How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide 4.16 avg rating — 610 ratings
16.
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 4.13 avg rating — 19,777 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
18.
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer 4.20 avg rating — 760 ratings
19.
Still Alice
Still Alice 4.32 avg rating — 355,930 ratings
20.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,413 ratings
21.
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves 3.62 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 3,336,366 ratings
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The Death of a Beekeeper
The Death of a Beekeeper 3.79 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain 3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
26.
Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death 3.94 avg rating — 478 ratings
27.
When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,158 ratings
28.
Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)
Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature) 3.87 avg rating — 371 ratings
28.
A Two-Spirit Journey
A Two-Spirit Journey 4.24 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
28.
One for All
One for All 3.85 avg rating — 3,532 ratings
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Neoclassical Acupuncture: An adventure into China’s ancient past and the rediscovery of a revolutionary method of acupuncture
Neoclassical Acupuncture: An adventure into China’s ancient past and the rediscovery of a revolutionary method of acupuncture 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Invisible No More: Embracing Your Road to Recovery from Long Covid and Other Complex Chronic Illnesses
Invisible No More: Embracing Your Road to Recovery from Long Covid and Other Complex Chronic Illnesses 3.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
33.
Not One of These Poems Is About You
Not One of These Poems Is About You 4.11 avg rating — 285 ratings
33.
Illness as Metaphor
Illness as Metaphor 3.96 avg rating — 3,401 ratings
35.
Sick: A Memoir
Sick: A Memoir 3.34 avg rating — 3,386 ratings
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Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness
Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness 4.19 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes
Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes 3.82 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,594 ratings
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Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness 4.39 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling 3.41 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11)
The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11) 4.26 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Morphine
Morphine 4.06 avg rating — 10,902 ratings
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Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression 4.28 avg rating — 611 ratings
44.
Come Away with Me (With Me in Seattle, #1)
Come Away with Me (With Me in Seattle, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 63,090 ratings
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In the Land of Pain
In the Land of Pain 3.70 avg rating — 555 ratings
46.
The Two Kinds of Decay
The Two Kinds of Decay 3.97 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 84,149 ratings
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Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye
Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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When Bodies Break: How we survive and thrive with illness and disability
When Bodies Break: How we survive and thrive with illness and disability 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain 4.13 avg rating — 70,775 ratings
51.
The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person (Jewish Encounters Series)
The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person (Jewish Encounters Series) 4.04 avg rating — 730 ratings
52.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
When Bad Things Happen to Good People 4.02 avg rating — 19,695 ratings
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The Body Broken
The Body Broken 3.54 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness 3.94 avg rating — 8,800 ratings
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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand 3.97 avg rating — 506 ratings
55.
Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS
Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS 4.50 avg rating — 185 ratings
57.
Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating — 29,612 ratings
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Shifting into High Gear: One Man's Grave Diagnosis and the Epic Bike Ride That Taught Him What Matters
Shifting into High Gear: One Man's Grave Diagnosis and the Epic Bike Ride That Taught Him What Matters 4.29 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Private Parts; How To Really Live With Endometriosis
Private Parts; How To Really Live With Endometriosis 4.36 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis
The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties 3.77 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache 3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,628 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating — 22,257 ratings
66.
Stitches: A Memoir
Stitches: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 27,704 ratings
66.
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
68.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,129 ratings
68.
A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary
A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary 3.66 avg rating — 308 ratings
70.
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved 3.80 avg rating — 51,872 ratings
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The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes
The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes 4.04 avg rating — 495 ratings
72.
Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir 4.37 avg rating — 6,033 ratings
73.
Green Migraine
Green Migraine 3.82 avg rating — 107 ratings
74.
What Katy Did
What Katy Did 3.89 avg rating — 20,239 ratings
75.
Period Piece
Period Piece 3.99 avg rating — 582 ratings
75.
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 523 ratings
77.
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,570 ratings
78.
Verity Red's Diary: A Story of Surviving M. E.
Verity Red's Diary: A Story of Surviving M. E. 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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On Being Ill
On Being Ill 3.98 avg rating — 2,779 ratings
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Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients
Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients 4.25 avg rating — 4,370 ratings
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The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life
The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
82.
Pilcrow (John Cromer, #1)
Pilcrow (John Cromer, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 180 ratings
82.
Between Gardens
Between Gardens 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
84.
Karma
Karma 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
84.
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive 3.46 avg rating — 3,492 ratings
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A Girl Behind Dark Glasses
A Girl Behind Dark Glasses 4.58 avg rating — 219 ratings
86.
The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life
The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life 3.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
88.
Our Year of Maybe
Our Year of Maybe 3.69 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
88.
The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one
The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one 4.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick 4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
90.
One-Breasted Woman
One-Breasted Woman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine 4.05 avg rating — 840 ratings
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The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness
The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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When the Flood Falls (The Falls Mysteries #1)
When the Flood Falls (The Falls Mysteries #1) 3.56 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness 3.61 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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Girl in the Window
Girl in the Window 3.49 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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Deep in the Brain: Living with Parkinson's Disease
Deep in the Brain: Living with Parkinson's Disease 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
98.
Girl in the Dark
Girl in the Dark 3.52 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder 3.22 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Epileptic
Epileptic
by: David B.
3.89 avg rating — 13,738 ratings
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