My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure
10 best books like My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure (Shawn Decker): Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival, Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath, Hyper-chondriac: One Man's Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down, An Unfinished Marriage, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star
| Author | Joy Ladin |
| ISBN | 0299287300 |
After years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world by returning to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman: Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created...
Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT
| Author | Jane Stern |
| ISBN | 1400048699 |
Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0307592987 |
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that...
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
| Author | Jonathan Engel |
| ISBN | 0061144886 |
From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses of the more radical edges of...
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
| Author | Sean Strub |
| ISBN | 1451661975 |
The founder of POZ magazine shares “a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic” (Next) and “a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man’s life” (San Francisco Chronicle).
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington,...
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath
| Author | Andrew Holleran |
| ISBN | 0786720395 |
Andrew Holleran’s Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized...
Hyper-chondriac: One Man's Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down
| Author | Brian Frazer |
| ISBN | 0743293398 |
Does your blood pressure surge if the car in front of you turns without signaling? Do your neck veins pulsate when a cashier takes too long to ring you up? Does relaxing seem like it'll have to wait until you're dead? Then your name could very well be Brian Frazer. On paper, Frazer is the world's healthiest...
| Author | Joan Anderson |
| ISBN | 0767908716 |
In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.
With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her brave...
| Author | Jacob Lentz |
| ISBN | 1608190250 |
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
I'm not sure exactly why I read this - it was short, it was on my bookshelf, I thought maybe it had something interesting about weight loss - but honestly...Meh. Not a great memoir. This is no "Bossypants" or "Yes Please," the celebrity books against which I judge all celebrity books. This read very much...
| Author | Kevin Jennings |
| ISBN | 0807071463 |
Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his son's eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasn't supposed to cry.
He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals,...
| Author | Richard Hammond |
| ISBN | 0297855212 |
Richard Hammond is approaching his fortieth birthday and this is the book that retells the events of that year. The book is actually quite witty - even occasionally laugh out loud funny – and told in a very conversational style. You can almost picture Hammond sitting in the saloon bar with his mates...
| Author | Kirk Read |
| ISBN | 0142002992 |
With bold Southern humor, journalist and performer Kirk Read takes readers on a guided tour of his precocious and courageous adolescence. Recalling his years as an openly gay high school student, Read describes how he navigated the hallways with his sense of humor and dignity intact. He fondly recalls...
| Author | Michael Thomas Ford |
| ISBN | 1555834965 |
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
| Author | Helen Boyd |
| ISBN | 1580051936 |
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her...
An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner
| Author | Cheryl T. Cohen Greene |
| ISBN | 1593765061 |
For the past forty years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, helping clients to confront, consider, and ultimately accept their sexuality. In this riveting memoir, Cohen Greene shares some of her most moving cases, and also reveals her own sexual coming-of-age. Beginning with...
Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
| Author | Elizabeth Edwards |
| ISBN | 0767925378 |
She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched...
No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones
| Author | Carol Lynn Pearson |
| ISBN | 0963885243 |
In her best-selling "Goodbye, I Love You," Carol Lynn Pearson shared the moving story of her life with her homosexual husband Gerald--their Mormon temple marriage, the birth and raising of four children, their mutual anguish in realizing his orientation had not changed, their divorce and ongoing...
| Author | Frank Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0758291329 |
In his stunningly honest and poignant memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life. . .
Frank Spinelli grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian-born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to...
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0156002027 |
...I've been visiting my own grave for years now--pre-need, as they call it--and I don't require any further vigil from anybody. Unless it is some kind of safety zone. And as long as there's no piety in the gesture. I don't like flowers, but the deer do. Keats and Lawrence and Stevenson all died of their...
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father...
The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
| Author | Mike Leonard |
| ISBN | 0345481488 |
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic...
The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have
| Author | Dennis DiClaudio |
| ISBN | 0760366349 |
Hypochondriacs can now fret appropriately and factually with this pocket guide to more than 40 disgusting, horrible diseases. All entries include symptoms, a diagnosis guide, treatment suggestions, a prognosis, and—if you are not yet infected—prevention tips.
Do you suffer from...
Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness
| Author | Betty Jean Lifton |
| ISBN | 0465036759 |
Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she...
A Kiss Before You Go: An Illustrated Memoir of Love and Loss
| Author | Danny Gregory |
| ISBN | 1452101949 |
After the loss of his wife in a tragic accident, beloved artist Danny Gregory chronicled his grief in the medium he knows best—the pages of his illustrated journals. This intimate volume reproduces these journal pages in a stirring visual memoir of Gregory's journey towards recovery. Uniquely...
