My Personal Book List: The most Helpful Books on The Topic of Illness

100 Questions and Answers About Endometriosis, David Redwine, MD

Adventures in Being Human, Gavin Ferancis

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande

Biography of a Germ, Arno Karlen

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Giving Up The Ghost, a Memoir, by Hilary Mantel

Heal Pelvic Pain, by Amy Stein M.P.T

How To Be Sick, by Toni Bernhard

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors, Susan Sontag

Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind, Daniel Seigel

Migraine, Oliver Sacks

Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Daniel Siegel

Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays From Your Nervous System, by Sonya Huber

Stop Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain, by Andrew Cook M.D

Survival of The Sickest, Dr. Sharon Moalem

The Alchemy of Illness, by Kat Duff

The Autoimmune Epidemic, by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Van Der Kolk M.D

The Body in Pain: Making and Unmaking of the World, Elaine Scarry

The Mindful Way Through Depression, Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindal Segal, Jon Kabbat-Zinn

The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon

The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating, by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, by Karen Armstrong

The TMJ Healing Plan: Ten Steps to Relieving Headaches, Neck Pain and Jaw Disorders, by Cynthia Peterson, PT

The Two Kinds of Decay A Memoir, Sarah Manguso

The Wisdom of the Body: Discovering the Human Spirit, Sherwin Nuland

The Wounded Storyteller, by Arthur Frank

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, Sharon Begley