The most popular cancer books

Books about cancer follow people through diagnosis, treatment and whatever comes after. Patients write with honesty and dark humor, relatives describe loving someone through it, and novelists imagine both. These stories are about fear, courage and ordinary life going on in the middle of it all.

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My Sister's Keeper
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My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult, [德]埃克哈特·托利

2004 · 2005 edition

423 pages

A Monster Calls
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A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

2011 · 2021 edition

240 pages

The Rainmaker
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The Rainmaker

John Grisham

Published 1995

434 pages

Next
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Next

Michael Crichton

2006 · 2008 edition

300 pages

The Matchmaker
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The Matchmaker

Elin Hilderbrand

2001 · 2022 edition

400 pages

Dewey
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Dewey

Vicki Myron, Bret Witter

2000 · 2014 edition

265 pages

Before I Die
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Before I Die

Jenny Downham

1998 · 2007 edition

336 pages

How Not to Die
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How Not to Die

Michael Greger

2015 · 2025 edition

672 pages

Truth & Beauty
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Truth & Beauty

Ann Patchett

2001 · 2004 edition

272 pages

Mortality
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Mortality

Christopher Hitchens

2012 · 2021 edition

106 pages