Please share any great books you have read that has helped you in your journey with D. It may be a book that is directly Diabetes related or not. Let us know how and why it was helpful to you! I would love to gather a comprehensive list to share!
Thanks for all your contributions!
Happy Weekend!
I like The Book of Better: Life with Diabetes Can’t Be Perfect. Make It Better, by Chuck Eichten.
It’s a quick read with plenty of whimsical artwork. The author is a T1D and focuses on pump use but his overall philosophy is great. Any improvement in life happens on the margins. Using this relative, instead of absolute, yardstick provides just the right amount of elasticity to motivate yet not becoming discouraging.
These are my favorites. A number of these authors are members or contributors at TuD.
Richard K. Bernstein, Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution, 4th. ed. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011)
Jenny Ruhl, Blood Sugar 101: What They Don’t Tell You About Diabetes (Turners Falls: Technion Books, 2013)
Gary Scheiner, Think Like A Pancreas (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2011)
Gary Scheiner, The Ultimate Guide To Accurate Carb Counting (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2011)
John Walsh et al., Using Insulin (San Diego: Torrey Pines Press, 2003)
Riva Greenberg, 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2009)
James S. Hirsch, Cheating Destiny (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006)
William H. Polonsky, Diabetes Burnout – What to Do When You Can’t Take It Anymore (Alexandria: American Diabetes Association, 1999)
Ginger Vieira, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout (New York: Demos Medical Publishing, 2014)
Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories (New York: Anchor Books, 2008)
Robert H. Lustig, M.D., Fat Chance – Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease (New York: Plume [division of Penguin], 2014)
Volek and Phinney, The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living (2011)
was just going to recommend the book of better, too! it will make you laugh out loud. you can read it from cover to cover or you can just open it to any page when youre having a bit of a d meltdown day. or week. or life…
also Breakthrough was also good-about the discovery and development of insulin.
Thanks Everyone! Keep em coming!
Stephen Ponder, MD: Sugar Surfing
Top of the list: Polonsky’s “Diabetes Burnout”. Kerri’s book, Balancing Diabetes. Also I agree with The Book of Better… It’s so much better! (It really is). 
I really liked 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes by Sheri R. Colberg and Steven V. Edelman.
Has anyone read Islands and Insulin? By Erin Spineto
@cynthia_rogers I have. Great read!
Diabetes Rising by Dan Hurley
Had just finished reading “One Second After” by William Forstchen when I was first diagnosed with T1. Unfortunate timing.
I want to second David_dns’s great list! The first book I read was Jenny Ruhl’s Blood Sugar 101 and it was a huge help! I went on to Dr. Bernstein’s book and others, but Blood Sugar 101 was such a readable and thorough place to start for a beginner! I will always be grateful for it!
Best wishes to all!
marty1492
we’ve had Erin visit us twice for live interviews, one specifically to talk about “Islands and Insulin”
http://www.tudiabetes.org/?s=spineto&post_type=external-videos
Very cool Marie!
Marty, thanks for the kind words. Jenny Ruhl is a member of TuD, or used to be at any rate.
I’m reading this book right now. I can’t remember if I downloaded it from reading this post, or whether it was from watching a documentary on Netflix that also mentioned it, but in either case, it was in my to-read list. It’s very interesting!! It’s mentioned things regarding insulin and its interaction with the rest of the body that I’ve never even heard of before, and that will hopefully help me in my weight-loss efforts (I’m only on chapter 5).
@jen thanks for sharing this! I really want to make a nice list of all of these books so we can have it as a resource for the community and new members especially. And also when TuD is on the road at events… Something really unique to hand out and share “from all of us at TuDiabetes” with hugs and support!
Yikes! That is unfortunate… 
Another great book that summarizes a lot of research and provides great information on a wide variety of topics in diabetes management is Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults by Ragnar Hanas (I think it would be great for plain ol’ adults, too).