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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as illness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,860,893 ratings — published 2012
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 689,756 ratings — published 2015
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,289,690 ratings — published 2004
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as illness)
avg rating 4.41 — 846,956 ratings — published 2016
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 265,036 ratings — published 2018
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 296,257 ratings — published 2011
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as illness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,841,017 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as illness)
avg rating 4.33 — 365,815 ratings — published 2007
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as illness)
avg rating 3.51 — 149,958 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 160,252 ratings — published 2016
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,528 ratings — published 2012
Extraordinary Means (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,222 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as illness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,300,456 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 — 286,976 ratings — published 2025
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 4.42 — 135,604 ratings — published 2021
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.87 — 658,395 ratings — published 2017
Before I Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as illness)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,520 ratings — published 2007
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,657 ratings — published 1962
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as illness)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,473,027 ratings — published 2014
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,359 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 485,825 ratings — published 2016
Zac and Mia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,044 ratings — published 2013
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,554 ratings — published 2015
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 642,091 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 — 1,261,764 ratings — published 1997
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 151,256 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 — 195,769 ratings — published 2016
Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,085 ratings — published 2021
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 853,817 ratings — published 1999
On Being Ill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,221 ratings — published 1926
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,469 ratings — published 2009
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,249 ratings — published 2021
Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 4.28 — 63,871 ratings — published 2014
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as illness)
avg rating 3.95 — 290,898 ratings — published 1993
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,308 ratings — published 2010
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.27 — 998,195 ratings — published 2015
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 179,314 ratings — published 2001
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.22 — 641,175 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,221,502 ratings — published 2012
Ruckus (Sinners of Saint, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 74,709 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,894 ratings — published 2010
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as illness)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,646 ratings — published 2000
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,393 ratings — published 2022
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,430 ratings — published 2020
Garrett (Cold Fury Hockey, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,313 ratings — published 2015
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,273,129 ratings — published 2006
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 23,673 ratings — published 2010
Welcome to the Dark Side (The Fallen Men, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,471 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as illness)
avg rating 4.49 — 225,712 ratings — published 2014
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Illness as Metaphor
― Illness as Metaphor
“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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