READING & LISTENING LIST
Essays, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, podcasts, and zines relating to the body, illness, pain, disability, trauma, and more.
MemoirThe Undying by Anne Boyer
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Tiger and The Cage by Emma Bolden
Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Some of Us Just Fall by Polly Atkin
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
Happening by Annie Ernaux
The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
Inferno by Catherine Cho
Sick by Porochista Khakpour
Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Hysteria by Katerina Bryant
Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
Codependence by Amy Long
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones
Non Fiction/essay
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber
Blackfishing the IUD by Caren Beilin
Crippled by Frances Ryan
Invisible by Michele Lent Hirsch
Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant
Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
Health Justice Now by Timothy Faust
Exposure by Olivia Sudjic
Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Bodyminds reimagined by Sami Schalk
What Her Body Thought by Susan Griffin
The Rejected Body by Susan Wendell
When The Sick Rule The World by Dodie Bellamy
The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry
Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare
Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Life in the sick-room by Harriet Martineau
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Conditioner by Liz Barr
Body Work by Melissa Febos
How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The Way We Survive by Catriona Morton
Who Wants Normal? Life Lessons from Disabled Women by Frances Ryan
Anthologies
Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled, & Neurodivergent Poets, edited by Rachael Boast
Criptiques edited by Caitlin Wood
A Queer Anthology of Sickness published by Pilot Press
Cusp: Feminist Writing on Bodies, Myth & Magic published by Ache magazine
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong
On Bodies published by 3 of Cups Press
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf and Audre Lorde (new, collaborative edition featuring various writers)
Fiction
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Want by Lynn Steger Strong
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin
Maps of our Spectacular Bodies by Maddy Mortimer
Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss
All’s Well by Mona Awad
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottesa Moshfegh
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hotel World by Ali Smith
Severance by Ling Ma
Nervous Systems by Lina Meruane
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Poetry
Don’t Let it Kill You by Theo LeGro
The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise
Trust Fall by William Gee
Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White
The Relativity of Living Well by Ashna Ali
Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer
Rheuma by William Gee
In the Sick Hour by Jane Hartshorn & Kaiya Waerea
Curses, Curses by Kirstie Millar & Alice Blackstock
Metamorphosis by Charlotte Lunn
Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer
Virgins by Jesse Darling
Descriptions by Alec Finlay
Shield by Jamie Hale
Body Count by Kyla Jamieson
Hyperlove by Naomi Morris
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Zines & Publications
Blued, published by Silken Reference
Counter Signals 4, published by Other Forms
Manifesto: Profitit for Survival by Be Oakley, published by GenderFail
Monthly Mail-out, published by Sticky Fingers Publishing
Spring 2022 Instalment of Thick Press’ ongoing INQUIRY INTO CARE
Trans Masc Studies Volumes 1-3
Transgender Health in the UK: A Primer by o.s. warren
Listens
No End in Sight - a podcast about life with chronic illness by Brianne Benness
POWER NOT PITY - a podcast by Bri M.
Down to the Struts - a podcast about disability and design by Qudsiya Naqui
Disability Visibility - a podcast by Alice Wong
Death Panel - a podcast about the political economy of health by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, and Phil Rocco