10/07/2026
October is Health Literacy Month! Our friends at the Broome County Health Department shared a great list of recommended reads from their staff! You can find all these titles and more in the Four County Library System catalog!
[Image description: Slide 1: Graphic for October Health Literacy Month on a light blue background. Large blue and gray text at the top reads “October Health Literacy Month.” Nine book covers exploring public health, medicine, patient advocacy, addiction, infectious disease, nutrition, and healthcare disparities are displayed in a grid. Featured titles include Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green, The People’s Hospital by Ricardo Nuila, True Biz by Sara Nović, The To***co Wives by Adele Myers, Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy, How to Be a Patient by Sana Goldberg, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, Eat This, Not That! by Andrea Curtis, and Food Politics by Marion Nestle. Slide 2: Graphic for October Health Literacy Month on a light blue background. Large blue and gray text at the top reads “October Health Literacy Month.” Seven book covers related to health, medicine, public health, and disease are displayed in a grid. Titles include What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha, American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, The Plague by Albert Camus, and The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science by Peter J. Hotez. Text at the bottom reads: “Find these titles & more in the Four County Library System Catalog”. End image description.]
