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Chronic Illness Books
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.79 — 207,130 ratings — published 2019
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,594 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,026 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 4.26 — 2,934 ratings — published 2021
Sick Kids in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,199 ratings — published 2019
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,527 ratings — published 2010
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,874 ratings — published 2021
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.94 — 49,602 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 — 626 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 — 437 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,718,501 ratings — published 2012
The Matzah Ball (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.62 — 22,917 ratings — published 2021
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.18 — 257,563 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 — 17,359 ratings — published 2020
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 217,894 ratings — published 2021
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 237,563 ratings — published 2012
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.77 — 295 ratings — published 2008
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,711 ratings — published 2018
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 — 859 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 — 289 ratings — published 2005
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,509,279 ratings — published 2023
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.33 — 483 ratings — published 2017
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 678,086 ratings — published 2015
The Two Kinds of Decay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,511 ratings — published 2008
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.89 — 175,286 ratings — published 2015
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,384 ratings — published 2020
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.35 — 279,372 ratings — published 2014
With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,584 ratings — published 2021
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 126,302 ratings — published 2021
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,476 ratings — published 2014
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,447 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 3.80 — 793 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 3.97 — 515 ratings — published 2017
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,968 ratings — published 1926
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.74 — 35,967 ratings — published 2021
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
Sick: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,427 ratings — published 2018
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 4.17 — 3,023 ratings — published 2018
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,458 ratings — published 2022
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,108 ratings — published 2021
Reel (Hollywood Renaissance, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.45 — 24,812 ratings — published 2021
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,096 ratings — published 2018
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,141 ratings — published 2003
One for All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,650 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 — 9,913 ratings — published 2020
Love from A to Z (A Coming-of-Age Romance)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,632 ratings — published 2019
Tender Points (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.48 — 803 ratings — published 2015
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.18 — 34,761 ratings — published 2003
Not Quite a Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,060 ratings — published 2024
Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as chronic-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 127,603 ratings — published 2024
“Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”
― A Distant Heart
― A Distant Heart
“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
