Let’s say this is me collecting spoons, aka: a list of memoirs by fellow chronically ill spoonies. May the selection give you empathy or make you feel seen ❤️
created by foresty.creature
last updated August, 2026
In the Field Between Us: Poems
Molly McCully Brown
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Sarah Manguso
A Flat Place
Noreen Masud
Sanatorium
Abi Palmer
Sea Bean
Sally Huband
Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
Polly Atkin
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
Tessa Miller
Poor Little Sick Girls
Ione Gamble
Sick: A Memoir
Porochista Khakpour
Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
Emma Bolden
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives)
Sonya Huber
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke
Dizzy: A Memoir (Connective Tissue)
Rachel Weaver
Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World
Alyssa Graybeal
Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in Essays
Margeaux Feldman
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
Johanna Hedva
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Thank you 🥹
My pleasure 🤗
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