Reading About Transplants and Donation: Where to Start

Transplant medicine runs on the most intimate exchange in human experience: part of one body continuing life in another. The stories on this shelf come from both sides of that exchange — the recipient who wakes with a stranger's heart keeping time, the living donor who gave a kidney or a piece of liver to someone they love, or to someone they never met.

Here is the Transplants & Donations shelf, mapped.

Receiving

Giving

Kidney, liver, lung, and bone-marrow journeys also appear on their condition shelves — see The Gift of Life, Giving a Kidney, Liver Renewed, New Breath, and Marrow Deep.

From the Reading Room

Companion pieces include kidney transplant and lung transplant.

The whole shelf lives in our Transplants & Donations collection.

These books are companion reading, not transplant advice. Listing, matching, and donation decisions belong with transplant teams — and if these stories move you, registering as a donor is a conversation worth having.

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.