Chronic Illness Memoir books
Here are 48 books with a lot of chronic illness memoir, starting with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating and The Girl With Nine Wigs.
The Diving Bell and the ButterflyJean-Dominique Bauby
The Sound of a Wild Snail EatingElisabeth Tova Bailey
The Girl With Nine WigsSophie van der Stap
Girl in the DarkAnna Lyndsey
The Two Kinds of DecaySarah Manguso
One Litre of Tears: A Young Girl's Fight for LifeAya Kito
Cancer VixenMarisa Acocella Marchetto
The Cancer JournalsAudre Lorde
It's Not Yet DarkSimon Fitzmaurice
Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn't Go AwayJennette Fulda
Awkward Bitch: My Life with MSMarlo Donato Parmelee
The Man Who Couldn't EatJon Reiner
Brain on Fire: My Month of MadnessSusannah Cahalan
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi
Everybody's Got SomethingRobin Roberts, Veronica Chambers
Lucky ManMichael J. Fox
A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of HopeTom Brokaw
Laughing at My NightmareShane Burcaw
In the Body of the WorldEve Ensler
The Test of My LifeYuvraj Singh, Sharda urga
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their CaregiversToni Bernhard
The Camera My Mother Gave MeSusanna Kaysen
Our Cancer YearHarvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant MemoirRichard M. Cohen
Beautiful AfflictionLene Fogelberg
Wide Awake and Dreaming: A MemoirJulie Flygare
Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, DiabetesMary Tyler Moore
MortalityChristopher Hitchens
It's Always SomethingGilda Radner
My Book of DaysEric Dane
The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be MeBruce Feiler
Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill MeBryan Bishop
Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell YouKate Gross
A Journey Round My SkullFrigyes Karinthy
Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last WordsRegine Stokke
Why I Wore Lipstick: To My MastectomyGeralyn Lucas
True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My LifeKevin Sorbo
Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest HourAmy Robach
I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?Suzy Becker
HappyAlex Lemon
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing UpSelma Blair
Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me HomeJessica Fechtor
Just Don't Fall: A Hilariously True Story of Childhood, Cancer, Amputation, Romantic Yearning, Truth, and Olympic GreatnessJosh Sundquist
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & LifeDon Piper
Still MeChristopher Reeve
Every Day I FightStuart Scott, Larry Platt
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of DisintegrationDavid Wojnarowicz
The Story of My TitsJennifer Hayden