A diverse, essential guide to understanding HIV/AIDS through history, activism, and personal storytelling. Read, reflect, and share these revealing perspectives.
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last updated January, 2026
Saturday Is for Funerals
Unity Dow
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
Sarah Schulman
The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America (Gender and American Culture)
Paul M. Renfro
Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art
Keiko Lane
Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System
Michael Saag
Nurses On The Inside: Stories Of The HIV/AIDS Epidemic In NYC
Ellen Matzer
Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
M.K. Czerwiec
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Jack Lowery
The Farewell Symphony (The Edmund Trilogy, #3)
Edmund White
Becoming a Man
Paul Monette
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Abraham Verghese
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
Royles
Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
Ruth Coker Burks
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Mark Doty
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Sean Strub
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Richard A. McKay
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer
The Destiny of Me
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
David Wojnarowicz
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy Shilts
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