Start with high-confidence disease & public health books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Raising Lazarus
Beth Macy
Dopesick
Survival of the City
Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
League of Denial
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru
Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia
Anne Stangl, Dara Carr
The Great Shadow
Susan Wise Bauer
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert
Being Positive
Robert Klitzman
Methland
Nick Reding
Blood Money
Kathleen McLaughlin