The most popular health & illness books of 2022

Books about health and illness tell what it is like when the body stops cooperating. Patients, families, doctors and nurses all have stories here, in novels and in memoirs. They are about fear and endurance, and about how illness changes what a person thinks matters. This list shows the ones first published in 2022.

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Undoctored
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Undoctored

Adam Kay

2022 · 2023 edition

296 pages

The Facemaker
Cover of The Facemaker

The Facemaker

Lindsey Fitzharris

2022 · 2023 edition

320 pages

Essential Labor
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Essential Labor

Angela Garbes

2022 · 2025 edition

256 pages

Nights of Plague
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Nights of Plague

Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap

2022 · 2023 edition

704 pages