BOOKS: CANCER OR ILLNESS-RELATED
- Bauby JD. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death. New York, NY: Vintage Books, Random House, Inc.; 2007
- Bolte-Taylor, J. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. New York, NY: Viking Press; 2008 (YouTube video)
- Genova, L. Still Alice. New York, NY: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc.; 2009
- Gould SJ. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press; 1996 (especially Chapter 4, Case One: A Personal Story, Where any measure of central tendency acts as a harmful abstraction, and variation stands out as the only meaningful reality, pp 45-56; note Figure 7 on page 55)
- Harpham WS. Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc; 2005 (Website)
- Holland J and Lewis S. The Human Side of Cancer: Living with Hope, Coping with Uncertainty. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers; 2000
- Pausch R with Zaslow G. The Last Lecture. New York, NY: Hyperion Books; 2008 ("We cannot change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand." YouTube video)
BOOKS: OTHER
- Collins G. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. New York, NY: Little, Brown, and Co.; 2009
- Cunningham M. The Hours. New York, NY: Picador; 2000
- Daniell E. Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 2008 (Book talk)
- Gilbert E. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia. New York, NY: Penguin Books; 2007 (Website)
- Kellaway L and Lukes M. Who Moved My Blackberry? New York, NY: Hyperion; 2006
- Kristof ND and WuDunn S. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf; 2009
- Lamott A. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York, NY: Anchor Books, Random House; 1995
- Niles B. New York's 50 Best Places to Take Tea. New York, NY: Universe Publishing; 2008 (If you're not a New Yorker, get a similar book for your home town, and go!)
- Obama B. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Random House; 2006
- Patchett A. Bel Canto. New York, NY: HarperCollins; 2001
- Quindlen A. A Short Guide to a Happy Life. New York, NY: Random House; 2000
- Rubin G. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. New York, NY: HarperCollins; 2009
SHORT STORIES
- Carver R. Where I'm Calling From. New York, NY: Vintage Contemporaries; 1989 (or anything else by him)
- Hemingway E. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York, NY: Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster; 1998 (or anything else by him)
- Klass P. Love and Modern Medicine. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin; 2001 (or anything else by her)
- Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf; 2008 (or anything else by her)
PLAYS
- Edson M. Wit. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service; 1999
- Linsay-Abaire D. Rabbit Hole. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service; 2007
- Loomer, Lisa. Distracted. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service; 2007
- Wasserstein W. Third. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service (unpublished manuscript)
POETRY
- Carver R. All of Us: The Collected Poems. New York, NY: Vintage; 2000
- Dickinson E. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition. Belknap Press; 2005
