What to Read After Illness as Metaphor
Readers who loved Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Illness as Metaphor 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 Illness as Metaphor
Wounded Storyteller
The Cancer Journals
Art of Cruelty
On Being Ill
In the Kingdom of the Sick
The Body in Pain
AIDS and Accusation
The Illness Narratives
Regarding the Pain of Others
A Barthes reader
On Longing
Between Men
The Importance of Being Iceland
A disability history of the United States
Reel to Real
Swimming in a Sea of Death
The Liberal Imagination
War and the Iliad
Sideshow U.S.A.
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Extraordinary Bodies
Intoxicated by My Illness
The Female Malady
Making Sex