Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
Ranked #4 in Neurology, Ranked #5 in Psychiatry — see more rankings.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent,... more
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Rankings by Category
Brain on Fire is ranked in the following categories:
- #29 in Autobiography
- #52 in Biography
- #8 in Bipolar
- #77 in Book Club
- #13 in Brain
- #10 in Diseases
- #46 in Documentaries
- #24 in Health
- #19 in How Things Work
- #12 in Human Brain
- #33 in Journalism
- #7 in Journalists
- #5 in Medical
- #12 in Medicine
- #12 in Memoir
- #10 in Mental Health
- #22 in Neuroscience
- #51 in Nonfiction
- #39 in Psychology
- #35 in Real Life
- #46 in Recent
- #18 in Social Work
- #20 in Soul
- #39 in Therapy
- #27 in True Stories
- #16 in True Story
- #12 in Writers
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