What to Read After The Cancer Journals
Readers who loved The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Cancer Journals is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Cancer Journals
Illness as metaphor
Exile and pride
Warrior poet : a biography of Audre Lorde
Crip Theory
On lies, secrets, and silence
Intoxicated by my illness
Waiting in the wings
The Gentrification of the Mind
My Dangerous Desires
The gifts of the body
Yearning
Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient
Extraordinary Bodies
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
Disidentifications
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Zami, a new spelling of my name
Sister Outsider
The alchemy of race and rights
Heaven's Coast
The loony-bin trip
Complaints and disorders
Very Easy Death
Wounded Storyteller