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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,888,541 ratings — published 2012
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 691,850 ratings — published 2015
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,292,458 ratings — published 2004
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 854,797 ratings — published 2016
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 72 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 266,306 ratings — published 2018
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,494 ratings — published 2011
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,848,834 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as illness)
avg rating 4.33 — 366,831 ratings — published 2007
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as illness)
avg rating 3.51 — 150,189 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 161,160 ratings — published 2016
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,531 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as illness)
avg rating 4.31 — 301,275 ratings — published 2025
Extraordinary Means (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,257 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,318,579 ratings — published 1963
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 137,127 ratings — published 2021
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.87 — 661,561 ratings — published 2017
Before I Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,581 ratings — published 2007
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,474 ratings — published 1962
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as illness)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,485,371 ratings — published 2014
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,179 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 490,013 ratings — published 2016
Zac and Mia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,060 ratings — published 2013
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,589 ratings — published 2015
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,262 ratings — published 1926
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 644,373 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 — 1,277,254 ratings — published 1997
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 151,657 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 — 198,560 ratings — published 2016
Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 334,609 ratings — published 2021
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 855,666 ratings — published 1999
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,684 ratings — published 2009
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,282 ratings — published 2021
Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.28 — 64,165 ratings — published 2014
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 293,063 ratings — published 1993
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as illness)
avg rating 4.22 — 648,759 ratings — published 2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,633 ratings — published 2010
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 180,089 ratings — published 2001
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,226,413 ratings — published 2012
Ruckus (Sinners of Saint, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 75,233 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,646 ratings — published 2010
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,049 ratings — published 2010
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,992 ratings — published 2000
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,013,649 ratings — published 2015
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,448 ratings — published 2022
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,488 ratings — published 2020
Garrett (Cold Fury Hockey, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,337 ratings — published 2015
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,283,539 ratings — published 2006
Welcome to the Dark Side (The Fallen Men, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,563 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.49 — 227,252 ratings — published 2014
“Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes—a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker—
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.”
― Love & Misadventure
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes—a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker—
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.”
― Love & Misadventure
“Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
