The Nightstand Collective Book Lists gather the books that appear on the nightstands photographed as part of the project. These lists are not recommendations or curated reading guides, but records, traces of what people living with chronic illness keep close, return to, or read slowly over time.
Collected annually, the lists form an informal archive of reading as care, comfort, inquiry, and survival. Together they reflect the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional landscapes that surround chronic illness in everyday life.
