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by Susannah Cahalan · about this book

Loved Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, Girl, Interrupted and What My Bones Know. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · First Person Narrator · Female Lead · Hospital

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