Morning In This Broken World
Katrina Kittle
Published 2023
The most popular health & illness books of 2023
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 2023.
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Rough Sleepers Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
Tracy Kidder
Published 2023
320 pages
A Living Remedy A Memoir
Nicole Chung
Published 2023
239 pages
Still Life with Bones Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Alexa Hagerty
Published 2023
320 pages
Breaking Through My Life in Science
Katalin Karakó
Published 2023
336 pages
Honey, Baby, Mine A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Reese Witherspoon
Published 2023
239 pages
The Other Family Doctor
Karen Fine
Published 2023
304 pages
Madame Restell The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
Jennifer Wright
2023 · 2024 edition
334 pages
The Exceptions Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
Kate Zernike
Published 2023
409 pages
Life on Delay Making Peace with a Stutter
John Hendrickson
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Girls and Their Monsters The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
Audrey Clare Farley
Published 2023
291 pages
For Blood and Money Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
Nathan Vardi
Published 2023
288 pages
My Father's Brain Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Sandeep Jauhar
Published 2023
256 pages
Wonder Drug The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Jennifer Vanderbes
Published 2023
432 pages
There’s a Cure for This
Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner)
Published 2023
192 pages
Code Gray Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
Farzon A Nahvi
Published 2023
256 pages
Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl A Memoir
Sonia Henry
Published 2023
436 pages
Talking to My Angels
Melissa Etheridge
Published 2023
224 pages
The Year I Met My Brain
Matilda Boseley
Published 2023
352 pages
The Notekeeper A beautiful, heart-breaking story full of hope
Hannah Treave
Published 2023
429 pages
Zig-Zag Boy A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
Tanya Frank
Published 2023
224 pages
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
Dasha Kiper
2023 · 2024 edition
288 pages
How to Say Goodbye
Wendy MacNaughton
Published 2023
128 pages
Dear Body What I Lost, what I Gained, and what I Learned Along the Way
Brittany Williams
Published 2023
256 pages