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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhen Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 256 pages
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve me
Lucky Man
Michael J. Fox · 304 pages
This memoir discusses Michael J. Fox’s life--growing up in Canada and then becoming a national television star in the U.S. at the age of 19. Fox reveals the excess and temptations he fell into as a young star, and how with the help of his wife, Tracy Pollan, he quit drinking and drowning in self-pity. He tells of noticing the first tremors of Parkinson’s disease, which he ignored; finding out at t
Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir
Julie Flygare · 214 pages
Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers · 263 pages
The Test of My Life
Yuvraj Singh, Sharda urga, Nishant Jeet Arora · 189 pages
Autobiography of an Indian cricket player.
Beautiful Affliction
Lene Fogelberg · 352 pages
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan · 288 pages
The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions. Her eventual diagnosis is made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories s
Our Cancer Year
Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
A graphic novel which depicts Harvey Pekar's struggle with cancer.
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
Richard M. Cohen · 256 pages
Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. He was a young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, and his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For thirty years Cohen has done battle with MS, only to be ambushed by two bouts of col
Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
Mary Tyler Moore · 228 pages
Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years, while also tapping into the vast diabetes research network to talk to leading experts who are discovering new ways to control diabetes and its complications.
The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Susanna Kaysen · 168 pages
"The Camera My Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen's often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with all kinds of doctors - internists, gynecologists, "alternative health" experts - as well as with her boyfriend and her friends, when suddenly, inexplicably, "something went wrong" with her vagina."--BOOK JACKET.
It's Not Yet Dark
Simon Fitzmaurice · 184 pages
In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with crystal clarity that now was not his time to die. Against all prevailing medical opinion, he chose to ventilate in order to stay alive.
In the Body of the World
Eve Ensler · 221 pages
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.
Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You
Kate Gross · 246 pages
What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time, and how to fill your life with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy. Ambitious and talented, Kate Gross worked at Number 10 Downing Street for two British Prime Ministers whilst only in her twenties. At thirty, she was
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
Girl in the Dark
Anna Lyndsey · 258 pages
"Anna was living a normal life. She was ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. But then she started to develop worrying symptoms: her face felt like it was burning whenever she was in front of the computer. Soon this progressed to an intolerance of fluorescent light, then of sunlight itself. The reaction soon spread to her entire body. Now, when her s
The Two Kinds of Decay
Sarah Manguso · 184 pages
"At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the usual puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with yet another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life, and then, furiously, to expect everything ... Manguso recounts her struggle: blood cleansings, coll
A Journey Round My Skull
Frigyes Karinthy · 288 pages
The author's account of his own life when he was suffeing from a brain tumor.
Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy
Geralyn Lucas · 208 pages
Geralyn Lucas shares her feelings and experiences after being diagnosed at age twenty-eight with breast cancer, discussing some of the choices she made, the people she met, and the courage she gained from wearing bright red lipstick to her surgery.
Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour
Amy Robach · 247 pages
""I have breast cancer." When Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach revealed her shocking diagnosis on live television in November 2013, the seasoned news reporter embarked on the most difficult and illuminating journey of her life. In this intimate memoir, she retraces the twelve months following her brave announcement and speaks candidly, for the first time, about how her illness impacted her f
Awkward Bitch: My Life with MS
Marlo Donato Parmelee · 316 pages