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  1. 1.
    How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
    by Sherwin B. Nuland

  2. 2.
    Health and Happiness
    by Diane Johnson

  3. 3.
    Eighty-Sixed
    by David B. Feinberg

  4. 4.
    My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
    by Abraham Verghese

  5. 5.
    The Good Husband (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Gail Godwin

  6. 6.
    Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
    by Elizabeth Wurtzel

  7. 7.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

  8. 8.
    Autobiography of a Face
    by Lucy Grealy

  9. 9.
    Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics)
    by Paul Monette

  10. 10.
    Breaking the Surface
    by Greg Louganis

  11. 11.
    An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
    by Oliver Sacks

  12. 12.
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    One boy at war; my life in the AIDS underground.
    by Paul A Sergios

  13. 13.
    Days of Grace
    by Arthur Ashe

  14. 14.
    Last Wish
    by Betty Rollin

  15. 15.
    A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
    by Reynolds Price

  16. 16.
    A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  17. 17.
    Legwork: An Inspiring Journey Through A Chronic Illness
    by Ellen MacFarlane Burstein

  18. 18.
    Fatigue Artist
    by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  19. 19.
    Learning How the Heart Beats: The Making of a Pediatrician
    by Claire McCarthy

  20. 20.
    The Heart: A Memoir
    by Lance Morrow

  21. 21.
    Walking on Air: A Novel
    by R.S. Jones

  22. 22.
    Dying Young
    by Marti Leimbach

  23. 23.
    As Max Saw It
    by Louis Begley

  24. 25.
    Martin and John: A Novel
    by Dale Peck

  25. 26.
    Scissors, Paper, Rock: A Novel
    by Fenton Johnson

  26. 27.
    The Furies (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Janet Hobhouse

  27. 28.
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    Every 17 Seconds - Brian Weil

  28. 29.
    Marabou Stork Nightmares
    by Irvine Welsh

  29. 30.
    Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
    by Evan Handler

  30. 31.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

  31. 32.
    Sleep Thieves
    by Stanley Coren

  32. 33.
    Geography Of The Heart
    by Fenton Johnson

  33. 34.
    First Comes Love
    by Marion Winik

  34. 35.
    Going the Distance: One Man's Journey to the End of His Life
    by George Sheehan

  35. 36.
    Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer
    by Michael Korda

  36. 37.
    Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
    by George McGovern

  37. 38.
    Push: A Novel
    by Sapphire

  38. 39.
    The Beauty of Men: A Novel
    by Andrew Holleran

  39. 40.
    Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
    by Nancy Mairs

  40. 41.
    Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
    by Joseph B McCormick

  41. 42.
    My Name Is Mary: A Memoir
    by Mary Fisher

  42. 43.
    In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
    by Kathryn Black

  43. 44.
    Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback)
    by Sandra M. Gilbert

  44. 45.
    Being Brett: Chronicle of a Daughter's Death
    by Douglas Hobbie

  45. 46.
    Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
    by Christina Middlebrook

  46. 47.
    Terms of Endearment: A Novel
    by Larry McMurtry

  47. 48.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  48. 49.
    Out of This World: A Journey of Healing (Bur Oak Book)
    by Mary Swander

  49. 50.
    Paula
    by Isabel Allende

  50. 51.
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    Mortal Embrace
    by Emmanuel Dreuilhe

  51. 52.
    It's Always Something
    by Gilda Radner

  52. 53.
    52 Simple Steps to Natural Health
    by Mark Mayell

  53. 54.
    I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir
    by Jimmy Breslin

  54. 55.
    A Healing Family
    by Kenzaburo Oe

  55. 56.
    The Insult
    by Rupert Thomson

  56. 57.
    Blue Italian
    by Rita Ciresi

  57. 58.
    This Wild Darkness: The Story of my Death
    by Harold Brodkey

  58. 59.

  59. 60.

  60. 61.
    Life-Size
    by Jenefer Shute

  61. 62.
    The Voices of AIDS
    by Michael Thomas Ford

  62. 63.
    Experiencing HIV
    by Barry D. Adam

  63. 64.
    The Horizontal Woman: The Story of a Body in Exile
    by Suzanne Berger

  64. 65.
    Moon Tiger
    by Penelope Lively

  65. 66.
    Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
    by Susan Sheehan

  66. 67.

  67. 68.
    Under the Eye of the Clock
    by Christopher Nolan

  68. 69.
    Epigraph: A Novel
    by Gordon Lish

  69. 70.
    Ablaze
    by Larry E. Arnold

  70. 71.
    Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
    by Judith Walzer Leavitt

  71. 72.
    Rats, Lice and History
    by Hans Zinsser

  72. 73.
    Dying Well
    by MD, Ira Byock

  73. 74.
    The Island of the Colorblind
    by Oliver Sacks

  74. 75.
    Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
    by Kenneth V. Iserson

  75. 76.
    Cleaned Out (French Literature Series)
    by Annie Ernaux

  76. 78.
    What Girls Learn: A Novel
    by Karin Cook

  77. 79.
    She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

  78. 81.
    Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues
    by Frank Ryan

  79. 82.

  80. 83.
    Hurry Down Sunshine
    by Michael Greenberg

  81. 85.
    No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
    by Frank Owen

  82. 86.

  83. 87.
    My Brother
    by Jamaica Kincaid

  84. 88.
    Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
    by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

  85. 89.
    Medicine Men
    by Alice Adams

  86. 90.
    Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness
    by Ben Watt

  87. 92.
    A Field Guide to Germs, Revised and Updated Edition
    by Wayne Biddle

  88. 94.
    The Story of Junk: A Novel
    by Linda Yablonsky

  89. 95.
    Purple America: A Novel
    by Rick Moody

  90. 96.
    Hunger Point: A Novel
    by Jillian Medoff

  91. 97.
    The Light in the Skull: An Odyssey of Medical Discovery
    by Ronald Glasser

  92. 98.

  93. 99.
    Look up for Yes
    by Julia Tavalaro

  94. 100.
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    Open Water
    by Maria Flook

  95. 101.
    The Broken Cord
    by Michael Dorris

  96. 105.
    How We Live
    by Sherwin B. Nuland

  97. 106.
    Brains of Rats
    by Michael Blumlein

  98. 107.
    Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
    by Sean Tejaratchi

  99. 109.
    Blindsight: A Novel
    by Herve Guibert

  100. 110.
    Alice in Bed
    by Cathleen Schine

  101. 112.
    Signs of Life: A Memoir of Dying and Discovery
    by Tim Brookes

  102. 113.
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
    by Jean-Dominique Bauby

  103. 115.
    Love Has No Fear: One Couple's Search for Healing
    by Joan Peterson

  104. 116.
    A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor
    by David Loxterkamp

  105. 117.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

  106. 118.
    God Said, Ha!: A Memoir
    by Julia Sweeney

  107. 120.
    The Gifts of the Body
    by Rebecca Brown

  108. 121.
    Hospital Time
    by Amy Hoffman

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