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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Miriam Toews

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Sarah Ruhl

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Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Patricia Foster

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Blindness Through The Looking Glass

Georgina Kleege

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When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Ann Patchett

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The Life of the Mind

Christine Smallwood

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The Anatomy Lesson

Philip Roth

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D. H. Lawrence

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On Being Ill

Virginia Woolf

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Healing Together: A Family Guide to Recovering from Sexual Harm

Elizabeth Clemants

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The Kiss

Kathryn Harrison

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Written on the Body

Jeanette Winterson

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Kaleidoscope: On Seeing and Being Seen

Dani Shapiro

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The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

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Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

Greg Marshall

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Kitchen Table Wisdom

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Her Body Knows

David Grossman

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Where in the World are my Boobs?

Claudia Silver

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Women Who Run With the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Milk Fed

Melissa Broder

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Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds

Eva Kittay

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Famesick

Lena Dunham

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Necromancer

William Gibson

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R. J. Palacio

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Hardly Creatures

Rob Macaisa Colgate

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The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind

Noga Arikha

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The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Siri Hustvedt

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Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Stephen Grosz

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A Dialogue on Love

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Happening

Annie Ernaux

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Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

Katherine E. Standefer

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

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The Vegetarian

Han Kang

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Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

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Sula

Toni Morrison

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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Elephant Man

Bernard Pomerance

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

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The Lovers

Vendela Vida

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Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Passing

Nella Larson

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Pain: A Novel

Zeruya Shalev

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Dolly City

Orly Castel-Bloom

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The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison

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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

Suzanne Scanlon

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The Last Samurai

Helen De Witt

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Orlando

Virginia Woolf

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Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

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The Cyborg Manifesto

Donna Haraway

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I Heard Her Call My Name

Lucy Sante

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To the End of the Land

David Grossman

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Asymmetries: A Memoir of Difference

Caren Rabbino

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Percival Everett

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Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies

Neta Alexander

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity

Danielle Spencer

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When Nietzsche Wept

Irvin D. Yalom

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Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

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Pulse

Julian Barnes

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The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

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A Leg to Stand On

Oliver Sacks

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Tin Man

Sarah Winman

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Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

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The Mind-Body Problem

Rebecca Goldstein

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The Safekeep

Yael Van Der Wouden

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Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson

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A Boys Own Story

Edmund White

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She Wants It: Desire, Connection and Toppling the Patriarchy

Jill Soloway

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Slow Man

J.M. Coetzee

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All Fours

Miranda July

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Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

Stephen Cope

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Moving Violations

John Hockenberry

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Change

Edouard Louis

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Easy Beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones

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I Live a Life Like Yours

Jan Grue

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Kiese Laymon

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Rosemarie Garland Thomson

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A Personal Matter

Kenzaburō Ōe

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Akhil Sharma

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A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing

Reynolds Price

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Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence

Matthew Sanford

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Yoga

Emmanuel Carrère

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Lives Other Than My Own

Emmanuel Carrère

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Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Emily Rapp Black

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Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Elaine Scarry

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In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

Eve Ensler

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What is an Emotion? A Sublime Book

William James

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Motherhood

Sheila Heti

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Judy Blume

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

Martha Nussbaum

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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

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