Berthoud, Ella. <br/><br/>
The novel cure :  from abandoment  to zestlessness : 751 Books to Cure What Ails You / 
Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin. 
 - 420 pages :  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction--<br/>Ailments a to z--<br/>Acknowledgents--<br/>Ten-best list index--<br/>Author index--<br/>Novel title index. 
<br/><br/> The authors frame this book as a "literary apothecary." The book contains an alphabetical listing of emotional, mental, and physical ailments such as shyness, a broken heart, paranoia, anxiety, baldness, a broken leg, and even caring for someone with cancer. Each ailment and hardship is followed by at least one suggestion for a novel that, according to the authors, serves as "literary medicine. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143125938 (paperbacks) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013017177 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.<br/>Reading, Psychology of.<br/>Bibliotherapy.<br/>Best books.<br/>Ficción--Historia y critica--Teoría, etc.<br/>La biblioterapia.<br/>Los Mejores Libros.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 3352  / B542n 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.3