tell me where it hurts

Description
sickness and disease in fiction
1
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
8,782 members
400 reviews
4.1
4 Members
brewergirl, aulsmith, nessreader, ManWithAnAgenda
2
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
9,459 members
434 reviews
4
3 Members
brewergirl, KimarieBee, nessreader
3
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,597 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
nessreader, AmourFou
4
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
6,022 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Hospital Station
by James White
678 members
19 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aulsmith, nessreader
6
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
22,728 members
714 reviews
4
2 Members
brewergirl, nessreader
7
The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
3,890 members
181 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
8
Fever
by Mary Beth Keane
869 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
nessreader
9
Man in the Holocene
by Max Frisch
597 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
10
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,166 members
281 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
11
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
11,253 members
195 reviews
4.2
Member
aulsmith
12
The Death of a Beekeeper
by Lars Gustafsson
312 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
13
The Stand
by Stephen King
5,707 members
123 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
brewergirl
14
The Masque of the Red Death [short story]
by Edgar Allan Poe
932 members
31 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
The Rose of Sebastopol
by Katharine McMahon
735 members
33 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
nessreader
16
The Plague Sower
by Gesualdo Bufalino
359 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
17
The Medusa Plague
by Mary Kirchoff
385 members
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
3,821 members
155 reviews
3.9
Member
brewergirl
19
Briar's Book
by Tamora Pierce
3,216 members
38 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
The Calcutta Chromosome
by Amitav Ghosh
1,014 members
22 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
nessreader
21
World Without End
by Ken Follett
14,346 members
341 reviews
4.1
Member
brewergirl
22
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
11,473 members
132 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
23
The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally
754 members
38 reviews
4
Member
nessreader
25
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,588 members
189 reviews
3.9
Member
nessreader
26
The Thran
by J. Robert King
156 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
27
Dreamsnake
by Vonda N. McIntyre
2,110 members
69 reviews
3.8
Member
nessreader
28
The Chemistry of Death
by Simon Beckett
2,007 members
62 reviews
4
Member
nessreader
29
The Book of Madness and Cures
by Regina O'Melveny
484 members
42 reviews
3
Member
nessreader
30
The House of God
by Samuel Shem
1,631 members
29 reviews
3.9
Member
nessreader
31
Bodies
by Jed Mercurio
128 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
nessreader
32
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
5,325 members
133 reviews
4.2
Member
AmourFou,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : Not fiction
33
A Case Of Knives
by Candia McWilliam
52 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
nessreader
34
James Miranda Barry
by Patricia Duncker
239 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
nessreader
35
Goldblatt's Descent
by Michael Honig
6 members
4
Member
nessreader
36
One Pair of Feet
by Monica Dickens
262 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
nessreader