Books like I forgot to remember by Su Meck

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

A novel about a man who gives his daughter with Down syndrome to a nurse, sparking controversy and gaining widespread attention in the media.

A sweeping family drama set on a Midwestern dairy farm, A Map of the World explores how one accidental death roils a household, forcing its members to confront past mistakes, guilt, and the boundaries of community acceptance.

Barbara Ehrenreich revisits her teenage journals to trace a personal journey from scientific curiosity to mystical encounters, blending memoir with philosophical inquiry.

A biography of H.M., the renowned amnesic whose life chronicled major advances in neuroscience, told by long‑time collaborator Suzanne Corkin.

A memoir of a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who guides amputee and PTSD patients through Iraq and Afghanistan war injuries, blending humor with penetrating insight into veteran rehabilitation.

"Still Alice" follows a Harvard professor who confronts the sudden onset of Alzheimer’s disease, depicting the emotional and cognitive challenges of losing one’s memory while striving to maintain independence.

Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir traces her journey from a Bronx housing project to becoming the first Hispanic woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, revealing the grit, mentorship, and self‑belief that propelled her success.

The Bright Hour is a moving memoir in which poet Nina Riggs chronicles her life with terminal breast cancer, exploring how to live fully amid death, illness, and the emotional landscape of being a mother and patient.

A gripping personal memoir of Clark Elliott’s eight‑year struggle and recovery from a concussion, detailing his battle with amnesia, severe cognitive loss and the breakthrough treatments that restored his life.

"With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity. Melody Moezzi was born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland. When at eighteen, she began battling a severe physical illness, her community stepped up, filling her hospital rooms with roses, lilies, and hyacinths. But when she attempted suicide and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, there were no flowers. Despite several stays in psychiatric hospitals, bombarded with tranquilizers, mood-stabilizers, and antipsychotics, she was encouraged to keep her illness a secret-by both her family and an increasingly callous and indifferent medical establishment. Refusing to be ashamed, Moezzi became an outspoken advocate, determined to fight the stigma surrounding mental illness and reclaim her life along the way. Both an irreverent memoir and a rousing call to action, Haldol and Hyacinths is the moving story of a woman who refused to become torn across cultural and social lines. Moezzi reports from the front lines of the no-man's land between sickness and sanity, and the Midwest and the Middle East. A powerful, funny, and poignant narrative told through a unique and fascinating cultural lens, Haldol and Hyacinths is a tribute to the healing power of hope, humor, and acceptance"-- "Iranian-American activist Melody Moezzi speaks out on behalf of the mentally ill with a bracingly funny and poignant tale of her own suicide attempt, bipolar disorder diagnosis, and reclamation of her life"--

Sue Halpern explores the cutting‑edge science of memory and Alzheimer’s disease, blending personal experience with research from psychologists, neuroscientists, and pharmacologists to illuminate current treatments, diagnostics, and hope for the future.

Debbie Reynolds shares her life story in this definitive memoir, offering an intimate look at her journey from child star to Hollywood icon.

At nineteen, Nicole Kear learns she has retinitis pigmentosa and a decade before blindness. She embraces a carpe diem life—circus school, travel, romance—then becomes a mother and learns to accept her fading vision and the truth she has hidden.