Reading About Ear, Nose and Throat Health: Where to Start
A guide to our Ear, Nose & Throat shelf — ten anthologies of first-person testimony, from hearing aids and tinnitus to sinusitis, Meniere's, and losing smell.
· By The Editors
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ENT conditions rarely threaten life, but they quietly threaten the living of it: the dinner-table conversation you can no longer follow, the ringing that moves into your head like a tenant, the sense of smell that vanished and took food and memory with it. The people in these books measure what was lost — and, often, what was recovered — in exactly those human terms.
Here is the Ear, Nose & Throat shelf, mapped.
Hearing
- Sound Recovery: Hearing Loss Treatment Stories
- Aided and Abetted: Hearing Aid Experience Stories
- Hearing the World: Cochlear Implant Stories
- Ringing True: Tinnitus Management Stories
Balance, sinuses, and airways
- Spinning World: Meniere's Disease Stories
- Sinus Relief: Chronic Sinusitis Treatment Stories
- Polyp Free: Nasal Polyp Treatment Stories
- Tonsils Out: Adult Tonsillectomy Recovery Stories
Voice, smell, and taste
- Finding My Voice: Voice Disorder Recovery Stories
- Tasting Life Again: Smell and Taste Recovery Stories
From the Reading Room
Companion pieces include living with tinnitus, hearing loss, and vertigo.
The whole shelf lives in our Ear, Nose & Throat collection.
Sources and further reading
- Health Information. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
- Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL). National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
- ENT Health. American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
These books are companion reading, not ENT advice. Sudden hearing loss in particular is time-sensitive — treat it as urgent and see a clinician promptly.
The Reading Room publishes personal stories and editorial notes from our press. Everything here is companion reading — never medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For guidance about your own health, please speak with a qualified clinician. Read how we collect and edit patient testimony in our Editorial Standards, or meet the editors on our Editors & Contributors page.
If this piece was useful, the volumes below hold fifty full-length accounts from people who have been through it — the part an article can only summarise.
