Hope Was Here
Joan Bauer
2000 · 2015 edition
208 pages
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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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Rachel Joyce
2014 · 2015 edition
352 pages
The Bright Hour A Memoir of Living and Dying
Nina Riggs
Published 2017
310 pages
No Cure for Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear)
Kate Bowler
2021 · 2022 edition
202 pages
Dying to Be Me My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Anita Moorjani
2012 · 2022 edition
240 pages
Back on Blossom Street
Debbie Macomber
2006 · 2011 edition
416 pages
Don't Die, My Love
Lurlene McDaniel
1995 · 2013 edition
256 pages
This Star Won't Go Out The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl
Published 2014
448 pages
Yellow World
Albert Espinosa
2008 · 2012 edition
216 pages
We Should Hang Out Sometime
Josh Sundquist
2014 · 2016 edition
352 pages
The Second Time Around
Mary Higgins Clark, Jan Maxwell
Published 2003
482 pages
The Unwinding of the Miracle
Julie Yip-Williams
Published 2019
336 pages
Tear Me Apart
J.T. Ellison
Published 2018
481 pages
Death Be Not Proud A Memoir
John Gunther
1971 · 2007 edition
205 pages
Refuge
Terry Tempest Williams
Published 1991
320 pages
Talk Before Sleep
1994 · 2009 edition
240 pages
After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick
Published 2010
260 pages
Paris in Love A Memoir
Eloisa James
Published 2012
260 pages
Just One Wish
Janette Rallison
Published 2009
264 pages
The Spare Room
Helen Garner, Bernard Turle
2008 · 2019 edition
208 pages
How Starbucks Saved My Life A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Michael Gates Gill, Michael Gill
Published 2007
265 pages
It's Always Something
Gilda Radner
Published 1989
269 pages
Through a Glass, Darkly
Jostein Gaarder
Published 1998
161 pages
I'm Just a Person
Tig Notaro
2016 · 2017 edition
256 pages