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Not Quite a Ghost (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,297 ratings — published 2024
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,343 ratings — published 2019
Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,016 ratings — published 2020
The Astonishing Color of After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.04 — 34,407 ratings — published 2018
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 286,629 ratings — published 2025
The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,091 ratings — published 2021
I Crawl Through It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.53 — 3,357 ratings — published 2015
Gentle Hugs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.62 — 24 ratings — published
Fatkini (The Fatkini Chronicles #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,160 ratings — published 2023
The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 604 ratings — published 2025
The Glass Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.29 — 23,449 ratings — published 2024
Expiration Dates (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 144,399 ratings — published 2024
Three Things About Emmy Crawford: A Type-A Senator's Daughter's Young Adult Journey of Debate, Crohn's Disease, and Heartbreak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 179 ratings — published 2024
Wink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,985 ratings — published 2020
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,480 ratings — published 2000
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.82 — 55,756 ratings — published 1996
Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,302 ratings — published 2017
Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,789 ratings — published 2023
The Chronicles of Illness: Embracing Grief: A Guide to Living Fully with Chronic Illness, Diagnosed or Not (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published
Séance Tea Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,403 ratings — published 2020
Another Elizabeth (Janes #2)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 29 ratings — published 2023
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.57 — 43,456 ratings — published 2021
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 236,324 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 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.79 — 815 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.83 — 625,013 ratings — published 2014
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 285,590 ratings — published 2016
You'd Be Home Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 86,326 ratings — published 2021
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.99 — 723,750 ratings — published 2018
This Is My Brain in Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,673 ratings — published 2020
Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: it's mitochondria, not hypochondria! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 284 ratings — published 2014
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,187 ratings — published 2018
Tender Points (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.49 — 818 ratings — published 2015
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 871,817 ratings — published 2019
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 265,010 ratings — published 2018
Sick Kids in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,381 ratings — published 2019
Fire & Brimstone (Neighbor from Hell, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,720 ratings — published 2016
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Other Invisible Illnesses: The Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 79 ratings — published 1992
Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Personal Story of the Struggle for Recovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published 1994
The Fibromyalgia Advocate: Getting the Support You Need to Cope with Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 112 ratings — published 1998
Fibromyalgia Controversy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2009
The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.18 — 28 ratings — published 1999
Just Fine: Unmasking Concealed Chronic Illness And Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.72 — 32 ratings — published 2004
Encounters With the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 46 ratings — published 2005
Freedom from Fibromyalgia : The 5-Week Program Proven to Conquer Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.68 — 40 ratings — published 2001
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.77 — 294 ratings — published 2008
Hiking Hot Springs in the Pacific Northwest (Regional Hiking Series)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 80 ratings — published 2001
The Merck Manual of Medical Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 265 ratings — published 1997
YOU: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 256 ratings — published 2006
A Delicate Balance: Living Successfully With Chronic Illness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as invisible-illness)
avg rating 3.86 — 35 ratings — published 2000
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 161 ratings — published 1992
“hierarchies of diseases exist among patients and healthcare professionals...and when it comes to hierarchies of illness, evidence shows that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) /myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), features at the bottommost end of the medical “favoured” list”
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“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