TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berthoud,Ella
AU  - Elderkin,Susan
TI  - The novel cure: from abandoment  to zestlessness : 751 Books to Cure What Ails You 
SN  - 9780143125938 (paperbacks)
AV  - PN 3352 B542n 2014
U1  - 809.3 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Reading, Psychology of
KW  - Bibliotherapy
KW  - Best books
KW  - Ficción
KW  - Historia y critica
KW  - Teoría, etc
KW  - La biblioterapia
KW  - Los Mejores Libros
N1  - Includes index; Introduction--
Ailments a to z--
Acknowledgents--
Ten-best list index--
Author index--
Novel title index
N2  - 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
ER  -