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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,711 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 — 2,737 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,477 ratings — published 2022
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,110 ratings — published 2021
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,240 ratings — published 2010
Sick Kids in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,413 ratings — published 2019
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,999 ratings — published 2021
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,336 ratings — published 2020
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 646 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 — 441 ratings — published 2013
The Matzah Ball (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.62 — 23,333 ratings — published 2021
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 240,878 ratings — published 2021
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,566 ratings — published 2020
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 266,970 ratings — published 2018
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 244,066 ratings — published 2012
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,902,403 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 4.04 — 879 ratings — published 2018
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 692,843 ratings — published 2015
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.76 — 292 ratings — published 2008
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,018,480 ratings — published 2023
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,641 ratings — published 2020
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,780 ratings — published 2018
You Don't Look Sick!: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.99 — 297 ratings — published 2005
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,300 ratings — published 1926
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.89 — 179,782 ratings — published 2015
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 138,207 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 — 313,146 ratings — published 2014
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.31 — 503 ratings — published 2017
It's All in Your Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,599 ratings — published 2026
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,850 ratings — published 2021
With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.07 — 29,592 ratings — published 2021
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,482 ratings — published 2014
The Two Kinds of Decay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,568 ratings — published 2008
Reel (Hollywood Renaissance, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 38,637 ratings — published 2021
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.74 — 39,369 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 — 828 ratings — published 2017
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 526 ratings — published 2017
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.29 — 40,093 ratings — published 2022
Love from A to Z (A Coming-of-Age Romance)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,350 ratings — published 2019
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,210 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 3.65 — 162 ratings — published 1992
His Tesoro (Empire of Royals, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,529 ratings — published 2024
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,431 ratings — published 2020
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.50 — 5,344 ratings — published 2018
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,052 ratings — published 2003
Not Quite a Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,375 ratings — published 2024
Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.76 — 145,554 ratings — published 2024
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,189 ratings — published 2021
Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 337,741 ratings — published 2021
Sick: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,482 ratings — published 2018
“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as not really sick and not really suffering. What the patient comes to require in these circumstances, in the absence of help, are facts—tests and studies that show that they might “in fact” have something.”
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“Wait." Lucas's voice had gone low, and there was something sharp underneath the softness of it, something almost protective. "He got embarrassed because you asked a server whether your food would make you sick?”
― Worth the Risk: A Fake-Dating, Chronic-Illness Romance
― Worth the Risk: A Fake-Dating, Chronic-Illness Romance
