Ten Favorite Novels About (Actual) Illnesses
(alphabetically by author)
The Plague Sower by Gesualdo Bufalino
Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
The Blood of the Lamb by Peter De Vries
Difficult Light by Tomás González
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O’Nan
Chez L’arabe by Mireille Silcoff
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
— November 18, 2020