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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,624,590 ratings — published 2012
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 671,675 ratings — published 2015
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,267,369 ratings — published 2004
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as illness)
avg rating 4.18 — 253,592 ratings — published 2018
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 778,961 ratings — published 2016
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as illness)
avg rating 4.35 — 286,115 ratings — published 2011
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,774,784 ratings — published 2012
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as illness)
avg rating 3.51 — 147,724 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 357,592 ratings — published 2007
Ghosts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 154,225 ratings — published 2016
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 39 times as illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,799 ratings — published 2012
Extraordinary Means (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 3.92 — 21,967 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,176,963 ratings — published 1963
Before I Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 57,816 ratings — published 2007
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as illness)
avg rating 3.88 — 632,145 ratings — published 2017
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 119,218 ratings — published 2021
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 771,888 ratings — published 1962
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,346,334 ratings — published 2014
Zac and Mia (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 12,867 ratings — published 2013
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as illness)
avg rating 3.79 — 204,664 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 4.04 — 441,396 ratings — published 2016
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 619,928 ratings — published 2015
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,125 ratings — published 2015
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 840,276 ratings — published 1999
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 148,509 ratings — published 2012
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,216 ratings — published 2009
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.94 — 272,046 ratings — published 1993
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.40 — 119,293 ratings — published 2025
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 179,667 ratings — published 2016
Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.29 — 61,616 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,910 ratings — published 2010
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,169,065 ratings — published 1997
Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 259,626 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.29 — 883,720 ratings — published 2015
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 173,041 ratings — published 2001
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 569,380 ratings — published 2021
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,817 ratings — published 2021
Ruckus (Sinners of Saint, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 70,195 ratings — published 2017
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,784 ratings — published 2020
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,767 ratings — published 2020
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,177,885 ratings — published 2012
Garrett (Cold Fury Hockey, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,089 ratings — published 2015
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.07 — 597,946 ratings — published 2014
Welcome to the Dark Side (The Fallen Men, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,594 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.49 — 213,166 ratings — published 2014
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,845 ratings — published 1926
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,193,986 ratings — published 2006
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,762 ratings — published 2010
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ”
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“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
