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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
Suzanne Scanlon
Memoir
The Last Samurai
Helen De Witt
Fiction
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Fiction
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Fiction
The Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway
Essays
I Heard Her Call My Name
Lucy Sante
Memoir
To the End of the Land
David Grossman
Fiction
Asymmetries: A Memoir of Difference
Caren Rabbino
Memoir
James
Percival Everett
Fiction
Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies
Neta Alexander
Nonfiction
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle
Nonfiction
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Fiction
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction
Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity
Danielle Spencer
Essays
When Nietzsche Wept
Irvin D. Yalom
Fiction
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Fiction
Pulse
Julian Barnes
Fiction
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Nonfiction
A Leg to Stand On
Oliver Sacks
Memoir
Tin Man
Sarah Winman
Fiction
Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin
Fiction
The Mind-Body Problem
Rebecca Goldstein
Fiction
The Safekeep
Yael Van Der Wouden
Fiction
Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
Fiction
A Boys Own Story
Edmund White
Fiction
She Wants It: Desire, Connection and Toppling the Patriarchy
Jill Soloway
Memoir
Slow Man
J.M. Coetzee
Fiction
All Fours
Miranda July
Fiction
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Stephen Cope
Nonfiction
Moving Violations
John Hockenberry
Memoir
Change
Edouard Louis
Memoir
Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
Memoir
I Live a Life Like Yours
Jan Grue
Memoir
Heavy
Kiese Laymon
Memoir
Staring
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Essays
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe
Fiction
Family Life
Akhil Sharma
Fiction
A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
Reynolds Price
Memoir
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
Matthew Sanford
Memoir
Yoga
Emanuel Carrère
Memoir
Lives Other Than My Own
Emanuel Carrère
Nonfiction
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
Emily Rapp Black
Memoir
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy
Memoir
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Elaine Scarry
Essays
In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
Eve Ensler
Memoir
What is an Emotion? A Sublime Book
William James
Essays
Motherhood
Sheila Heti
Fiction
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
Memoir
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Fiction
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
Martha Nussbaum
Essays
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon
Essays
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk
Essays
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
Memoir
Just Kids
Patti Smith