Books
- Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (1978) [published together with AIDS as Metaphor]
- Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (1980)
- Arthur Frank, At the Will of the Body (1991)
- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991)
- Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death (1992)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love (1999)
- Lance Armstrong, It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000)
- David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death (2008)
- Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
Additional readings by:
Barbara Ehrenreich, Michel Foucault, David B. Morris, Sandra Steingraber, Arthur Frank, Ann Jurecic, Michael Lundblad, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ira Byock, Devra Davis, Roberto Esposito, and Rob Nixon