What to Read After Narrative Medicine
Readers who loved Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Narrative Medicine 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 Narrative Medicine
Wounded Storyteller
On being ill
The Cure Within
Constructing the self, constructing America
Intoxicated by my illness
The illness narratives
A fortunate man
The lost art of healing
Darkness Visible
Are you my mother?
An Unquiet Mind
Being Mortal
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Not that kind of girl
Golden Son
Americanah
On The Road
Red Rising
Yes Please
Life of Pi
Beloved
The Scarlet Letter