354 books
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222 voters
Illness Books
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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,828,202 ratings — published 2012
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 687,130 ratings — published 2015
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,286,680 ratings — published 2004
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 837,664 ratings — published 2016
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 263,309 ratings — published 2018
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 294,903 ratings — published 2011
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,831,993 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as illness)
avg rating 4.33 — 364,748 ratings — published 2007
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as illness)
avg rating 3.51 — 149,659 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 159,507 ratings — published 2016
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 241,506 ratings — published 2012
Extraordinary Means (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,178 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,281,413 ratings — published 1963
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 133,983 ratings — published 2021
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 269,584 ratings — published 2025
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as illness)
avg rating 3.87 — 654,827 ratings — published 2017
Before I Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,456 ratings — published 2007
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,798 ratings — published 1962
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as illness)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,455,335 ratings — published 2014
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 211,444 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 479,813 ratings — published 2016
Zac and Mia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,021 ratings — published 2013
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,498 ratings — published 2015
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,945 ratings — published 2016
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,245,547 ratings — published 1997
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 150,855 ratings — published 2012
Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,903 ratings — published 2021
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 639,268 ratings — published 2015
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,163 ratings — published 1926
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,198 ratings — published 2009
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,193 ratings — published 2021
Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.28 — 63,532 ratings — published 2014
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 850,973 ratings — published 1999
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 288,335 ratings — published 1993
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.27 — 981,677 ratings — published 2015
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 178,526 ratings — published 2001
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.22 — 632,273 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,215,719 ratings — published 2012
Ruckus (Sinners of Saint, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 74,112 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,996 ratings — published 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,150 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,299 ratings — published 2022
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,371 ratings — published 2020
Welcome to the Dark Side (The Fallen Men, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,374 ratings — published 2018
Garrett (Cold Fury Hockey, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,284 ratings — published 2015
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,261,744 ratings — published 2006
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,195 ratings — published 2010
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,205 ratings — published 2000
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.49 — 223,930 ratings — published 2014
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
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“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













