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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,788 ratings — published 2019
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,715 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,424 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 4.25 — 3,091 ratings — published 2021
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 23,892 ratings — published 2010
Sick Kids in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,388 ratings — published 2019
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,989 ratings — published 2021
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,113 ratings — published 2020
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 641 ratings — published 2015
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 — 442 ratings — published 2013
The Matzah Ball (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.62 — 23,298 ratings — published 2021
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 238,248 ratings — published 2021
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,876,398 ratings — published 2012
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,411 ratings — published 2020
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 265,745 ratings — published 2018
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,047 ratings — published 2012
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 — 2,769 ratings — published 2018
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.77 — 294 ratings — published 2008
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,941,654 ratings — published 2023
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 4.04 — 876 ratings — published 2018
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 690,931 ratings — published 2015
You Don't Look Sick!: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.99 — 296 ratings — published 2005
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,605 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 4.31 — 501 ratings — published 2017
The Two Kinds of Decay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,559 ratings — published 2008
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,243 ratings — published 1926
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.89 — 179,103 ratings — published 2015
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 136,447 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 4.33 — 308,370 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 — 11,662 ratings — published 2021
With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.07 — 29,461 ratings — published 2021
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,481 ratings — published 2014
It's All in Your Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,394 ratings — published 2026
Reel (Hollywood Renaissance, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 36,919 ratings — published 2021
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.74 — 38,898 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 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.79 — 819 ratings — published 2017
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 523 ratings — published 2017
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 — 3,195 ratings — published 2018
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,393 ratings — published 2022
Love from A to Z (A Coming-of-Age Romance)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,275 ratings — published 2019
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,312 ratings — published 2018
Sick: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,476 ratings — published 2018
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.66 — 161 ratings — published 1992
His Tesoro (Empire of Royals, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,184 ratings — published 2024
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,180 ratings — published 2021
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,369 ratings — published 2020
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,197 ratings — published 2003
Not Quite a Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,322 ratings — published 2024
Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.76 — 143,480 ratings — published 2024
One for All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,782 ratings — published 2022
“Are you feeling any better?” he asks. I shouldn’t be this mortified. I shouldn’t be embarrassed to take up space in my own life. I take another look at his face. His concern is genuine. He is offering niceties. I force myself to nod, push my mouth to a smile.”
― Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
― Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
“Mental illness
People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.
My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?
Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.
Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.
Telling me there is no problem
won’t solve the problem.
This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works.”
― The First Step
People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.
My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?
Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.
Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.
Telling me there is no problem
won’t solve the problem.
This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works.”
― The First Step
