The Book Poll ~ Your top favorite books about Cancer.
Need a new read?
We asked what your favorite books are for Cancer Patients, Survivors and Caregivers and here are the top 10 results……
Drum roll please…..
10. In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer by Teva Harrison who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease.
9. How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick by Letty Cottin Pogrebin which reviews say is guidebook for anyone hoping to rise to the challenges of this most important and demanding passage of friendship.
8. One for the Caregivers, The Color of Rain by Michael & Gina Spehn. This story explores the differences between despair and grief, denial and joy, bitterness and redemption.
7. Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips by Kris Carr. One Stupid Cancer community member said “this book helped through the initial weeks after diagnosis”
6. F*** You Cancer by Deborah James. How to face the big C, live your life and still be yourself Also, this title really speaks to us at Stupid Cancer ;)
5. For you Caregivers out there, check out 128 Days and Counting. This is a detailed account of a young couple during a cancer diagnosis and their relationship during the most difficult time of their lives.
4. Here We Grow: Mindfulness through Cancer and Beyond by Paige Davis. This book is filled with honesty, humor, and present-moment awareness that reveals our true capacity for joy, connection, grace, and resilience, Here We Grow is Davis’s story of meeting fear and uncertainty with mindfulness, meaning, and the unconditional love inherent in us all.
3. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book is a deep dive on the history of cancer. One Stupid Cancer community member said “When my emotions were all out of control, I enjoyed reading the science to keep me grounded.”
2. NY Times Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi a neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live.
1. By overwhelming response, everyone’s favorite is Big Ballsey Comics by Thomas Cantley a really cool comic book series for the fight against all cancers. Check it out! The graphics are really great!
