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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,858,631 ratings — published 2012
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 689,584 ratings — published 2015
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,289,504 ratings — published 2004
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 846,391 ratings — published 2016
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 264,942 ratings — published 2018
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 296,174 ratings — published 2011
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,840,391 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as illness)
avg rating 4.33 — 365,742 ratings — published 2007
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as illness)
avg rating 3.51 — 149,939 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 160,194 ratings — published 2016
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,455 ratings — published 2012
Extraordinary Means (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,219 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,299,082 ratings — published 1963
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 285,919 ratings — published 2025
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 135,512 ratings — published 2021
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.87 — 658,143 ratings — published 2017
Before I Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,517 ratings — published 2007
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,461 ratings — published 1962
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as illness)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,472,013 ratings — published 2014
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,307 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 485,439 ratings — published 2016
Zac and Mia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,042 ratings — published 2013
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,551 ratings — published 2015
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 641,923 ratings — published 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,260,662 ratings — published 1997
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 151,223 ratings — published 2012
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 195,535 ratings — published 2016
Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,593 ratings — published 2021
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 853,668 ratings — published 1999
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,216 ratings — published 1926
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,452 ratings — published 2009
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,247 ratings — published 2021
Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.28 — 63,854 ratings — published 2014
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 290,759 ratings — published 1993
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,027 ratings — published 2010
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.27 — 997,051 ratings — published 2015
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 179,264 ratings — published 2001
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.22 — 640,608 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,221,127 ratings — published 2012
Ruckus (Sinners of Saint, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 74,659 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,836 ratings — published 2010
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,620 ratings — published 2000
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,389 ratings — published 2022
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,429 ratings — published 2020
Garrett (Cold Fury Hockey, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,312 ratings — published 2015
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,272,287 ratings — published 2006
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,649 ratings — published 2010
Welcome to the Dark Side (The Fallen Men, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,466 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.49 — 225,600 ratings — published 2014
“The story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but to me it seems like a poem. This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. "I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard," she told me. "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously." Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, "This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness." Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. "I often talk to this tree," she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. "Yes." What did it say to her? She answered, "It said to me, 'I am here-I am here-I am life, eternal life.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
