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
The Cancer Journals
Wounded Storyteller
Art of Cruelty
On Being Ill
The Body in Pain
In the Kingdom of the Sick
The Illness Narratives
AIDS and Accusation
Regarding the Pain of Others
Reel to Real
Sideshow U.S.A.
Making Sex
A Barthes reader
Swimming in a Sea of Death
Between Men
Extraordinary Bodies
The Liberal Imagination
The Female Malady
The Importance of Being Iceland
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
A disability history of the United States
On Longing
Intoxicated by My Illness
War and the Iliad