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
On being ill
Art of Cruelty
The body in pain
In the Kingdom of the Sick
AIDS and Accusation
The illness narratives
Regarding the Pain of Others
The liberal imagination
Reel to real
Between Men
Extraordinary Bodies
Swimming in a Sea of Death
A Barthes reader
The female malady
Sideshow U.S.A.
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
A disability history of the United States
War and the Iliad
The Importance of Being Iceland
Intoxicated by my illness
Making Sex
Against Interpretation