The most popular chronic illness books

Books about chronic illness describe living with a condition that does not go away. Pain, fatigue, good days and bad days, and the struggle to be believed are part of the picture. Memoirs and novels here make an invisible experience visible, with frankness and often with wit.

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Diana's story
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Diana's story

Deric Longden

1989 · 1990 edition

319 pages

Bleeder
Cover of Bleeder

Bleeder

Shelby Smoak

Published 2013

214 pages

Climbing Higher
Cover of Climbing Higher

Climbing Higher

Montel Williams, Lawrence Grobel

Published 2004

240 pages