Understanding AIDS

A selections of books about the AIDS crisis, including both fiction and nonfiction.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín
Paper Book
From the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grandson. It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily,...
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by...
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
Audiobook
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder
Ebook
Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges widely-held preconceptions about poverty and healthcare.As a medical student, Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious...
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
Melissa Fay Greene
Ebook
The utterly inspiring and true story of an Ethiopian woman and the AIDS orphanage she built'More than a vivid, readable account of individual courage in the face of apparently overwhelming odds, this is an important book' The Times'Unforgettable ... Greene brings...
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France
Paper Book
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic--from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the...
Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
Ebook
Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and...

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