When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

By
Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi
2016 • 256 pages

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135 books

Memoirs

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Haunt
Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival
My Appalachia: A Memoir
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
My Lobotomy: A Memoir
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir
Yours Cruelly, Elvira

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88 books

Non Fic

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Bianca Pasqualini
The Noonday Demon
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die
The Cancer Chronicles
Both of Us: My Life with Farrah
When Breath Becomes Air

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77 books

Bio Memoir

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Bianca Pasqualini
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
When Breath Becomes Air
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Both of Us: My Life with Farrah
Happiness: A Memoir

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26 books

Favorites

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Bianca Pasqualini
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
When Breath Becomes Air
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Trial
Walden
Rendezvous with Rama

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29 books

Death And Dying

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Bianca Pasqualini
When Breath Becomes Air
How We Die
Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
On Death and Dying
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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3 books

Thought Provoking

YourHighness
Chloe
No Longer Human
When Breath Becomes Air
Of Mice and Men

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3 books

Autobiographical

YourHighness
Chloe
No Longer Human
When Breath Becomes Air
I'm Glad My Mom Died

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1 book

Memoir

YourHighness
Chloe
When Breath Becomes Air

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8 books

Good Writing Style

YourHighness
Chloe
Nevernight
The Inheritance Games
Icebreaker
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

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26 books

2024 Tbr

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Matija
The Republic
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Factfulness
The 48 Laws of Power
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
Persepolis, Vol. 1
A Christmas Carol

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58 books

Favorites

Louisa
Louisa
The Joyous Science
Schopenhauer as Educator: Nietzsche's Third Untimely Meditation
Interpreting Dreams
How to Be an Antiracist
Between the World and Me
The Second Sex
La nausée

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55 books

Memoirs

Louisa
Louisa
When Breath Becomes Air
Going Solo
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard: Library Edition
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
The Diary of a Young Girl
Boy
Just Kids

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53 books

Recs

Louisa
Louisa
When Breath Becomes Air
Ένας γέρος που διάβαζε ιστορίες αγάπης
Exit West
Going Solo
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Opposite of Loneliness
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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14 books

Kindle

Sophy
Sophy
Mad Honey
The Pact
The Broken Circle
Strong Woman
We All Looked Up
The Hobbit
My Sister's Keeper

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42 books

Love With My Whole Heart

qbert
Michelle
When Breath Becomes Air
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Little Life
The Painted Veil
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Nightingale
The Complete Novels

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46 books

Non Fiction

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Michelle
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Happy, Happy, Happy
Five Days at Memorial
Unbroken
The Hiding Place
Yes Please

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30 books

2016

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Michelle
For Real
The Diviners
Deviant & Fracture
Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises & The Exhilarating Future that Awaits You
Nowhere Ranch

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21 books

Memoirs

qbert
Michelle
The Complete Maus
Happy, Happy, Happy
Marble Season
A House in the Sky
The Hiding Place
Yes Please
My Fight / Your Fight

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189 books

Nonfiction

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Tara
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision
Where Am I Now?
Alan Turing: the enigma
Why Not Me?
The Story of Stuff
Crying in H Mart

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72 books

Owned

Ursula
Ursula Rosien
Love at First Book
Jane Eyre
Redeeming Love
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
11/22/63
Mrs. Kennedy and me
Me Before You

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27 books

Death And Dying

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Kay
Good Mourning
How to Die: A Book About Being Alive
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
The Year of Magical Thinking

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34 books

Dnf

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Brig Berthold
Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
The Joy Luck Club
I Will Always Write Back
Jack of Spies
Doctor Sleep
Atlas Shrugged
Ghost in the Wires

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450 books

Unowned Tbr

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Jo
Man's Search for Meaning
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
The chrysanthemum and the sword
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Kallocain

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93 books

Nftbr

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Jo
It Didn't Start with You How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
The Mountain People
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
Devices and Desires
The Book of Eels
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

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15 books

Philos

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Sephos
Meditations
The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
The Communist Manifesto
The Birth of Tragedy
Symposion
Apology
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