Memoirs by people with cancer
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by:
Kate Bowler
3.80 avg rating — 51,878 ratings 4. 
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
by:
Miriam Engelberg
3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings 
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The Upside of Cancer: How a Terrifying Illness Can Lead You to a New Life 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Before I Say Goodbye: Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year
by:
Ruth Picardie
4.15 avg rating — 623 ratings 
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Rocking the Pink: Finding Myself on the Other Side of Cancer
by:
Laura Roppe
4.17 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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It's Just Cancer: Making A Great Day, One Round of Chemo At A Time
by:
Brad Lubken
4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 16. 
Intuition, Cancer & Miracles: A Passage of Hope & Healing
by:
Sara Wiseman
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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B.O.O.B.S.: A Bunch of Outrageous Breast-Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories of Courage, Hope, & Healing 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
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It's Not Harder Than Cancer: The Mindsets You Need to Survive and Thrive After Serious Illness
by:
Michael Holtz
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Both Sides of the Bedside: From Oncology Nurse to Patient, an RN's Journey with Cancer 4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Man with a Backpack: One Regular Guy's Fight Against Stomach Cancer
by:
Rob Lukens
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 16. 
Conquering a Relentless Cancer: With God by My Side
by:
Gene Burnell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 16. 
Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words
by:
Janet M. Todd
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 16. 
An Unfashionable Cancer: From Fashion Victim to Cancer Survivor
by:
Debbie Murphy
4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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A Path Forward: My Journey to Find Healing through Integrative Medicine
by:
Jocelyn Johnson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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My Faith Has Found a Resting Place: The 26.7 Most Important Lessons I Learned Battling Cancer Multiple Times
by:
Deborah Isaacs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 16. 
Illumination - Finding Light in Cancer's Shadow: A couple's journey through pain and love
by:
Linda Chung
4.93 avg rating — 29 ratings 16. 
I Don't Wanna Be Pink: How a single, 39-year-old woman refused to let breast cancer and its fervent culture define her
by:
Dena Taylor
4.63 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy While Grieving
by:
Tony Stewart
4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings 
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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery 4.28 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
by:
Jerri Nielsen
3.99 avg rating — 3,877 ratings 
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A Salamander's Tale: My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer
by:
Paul Steinberg
3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings 55. 
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Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
by:
Anatole Broyard
3.94 avg rating — 478 ratings 
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
by:
Anne Boyer
4.16 avg rating — 5,455 ratings 60. 
Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
by:
Meredith Norton
3.71 avg rating — 515 ratings 60. 
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer 3.80 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
by:
Gail Caldwell
3.96 avg rating — 12,229 ratings 
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Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation 4.45 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Stranger in the Village of the Sick: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery, and Healing
by:
Paul Stoller
3.79 avg rating — 92 ratings 72. 
When My World Was Very Small: A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch
by:
Ruth Rakoff
3.46 avg rating — 46 ratings 
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Blood Brothers: A Memoir of Faith and Loss While Raising Two Sons With Cancer 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Reflections of a Woman: My Memoir of Breast Cancer: Loss, Love and Laughter
by:
Lisa Tugnette
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 78. 
If We Must Dance, Then I Will Lead: A Memoir of Breast Cancer Survival
by:
Jane Rudden
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
80. 
Between Me and the River: Living Beyond Cancer: A Memoir
by:
Carrie Host
3.96 avg rating — 110 ratings 
82. 
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by:
Lance Armstrong
3.71 avg rating — 41,093 ratings 
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Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee
by:
Hoda Kotb
4.07 avg rating — 1,598 ratings 85. 
Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
by:
Robert Schimmel
4.15 avg rating — 314 ratings 86. 
Cancer Is a Bitch: Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis
by:
Gail Konop Baker
3.59 avg rating — 143 ratings 87. 
Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Genes
by:
Sarah Gabriel
3.72 avg rating — 117 ratings 
89. 
Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain
by:
Josh Sundquist
4.18 avg rating — 1,837 ratings 90. 
Nine Lives: Football, Cancer And Getting On With Life
by:
Adam Ramanauskas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 91. 
In Your Face: One Woman's Encounter with Cancer, Doctors, Nurses, Machines, Family, Friends, and a Few Enemies
by:
Lia Mills
4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings 92. 
I Signed As the Doctor: Memoir of a Cancer Doctor Surviving Cancer
by:
Laura Liberman
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 93. 
Let Me Get This Off My Chest: A Breast Cancer Survivor Over-Shares
by:
Margaret Lesh
4.14 avg rating — 643 ratings 
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There's a Flying Squirrel in My Coffee: Overcoming Cancer with the Help of My Pet
by:
Bill Goss
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 97. 
Living Through the Racket: How I Survived Leukemia...and Rediscovered My Self
by:
Corina Morariu
3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings 
