5 best-selling health books like This is Cancer by Laura Holmes Haddad

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This is Cancer

By: Laura Holmes Haddad

4.20

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed or color. Its patients are literally eve…

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1. My Husband's Wife

By: Jane Corry

3.54

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

When young lawyer Lily marries Ed, she’s determined to make a fresh start and leave the secrets of … read more

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2. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

By: Richard Preston

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

3. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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4. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

By: Nora Ephron

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more

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5. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

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6. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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  • self help
"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

8. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

By: Sarah Wilson

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding bet… read more

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9. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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10. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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11. A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.62

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she… read more

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"Well, Harold,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"If you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

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12. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • nonfiction
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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13. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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14. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."

-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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15. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

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"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

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16. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

By: Nedra Glover Tawwab

4.28

Format: 282 pages, ebook

End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

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17. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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18. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

By: Jessi Klein

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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19. The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters

By: Joanna Gaines

3.48

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

We all have a story to tell. This happens to be mine—every chapter a window into who I am, the jour… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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21. Cottage by the Sea

By: Debbie Macomber

3.99

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes h… read more

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22. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab

23. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

By: Nedra Glover Tawwab

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
"Visit the past, but don't stay there."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

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24. I'm Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions That Happen When Life Falls Apart

By: Kris Carr

4.23

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Kris Carr, comes a transformational book about love, loss, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

By: Kasey Edwards

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The seven qualities that enable girls to thrive in a world that tells them they are flawed. When… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives by Rachel Simmons

26. Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

By: Rachel Simmons

4.11

Format: 320 pages, ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, a deeply urgent audiobook that gives ad… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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27. This is Cancer

By: Laura Holmes Haddad

4.20

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed or color. Its patients are literally eve… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science

18 Top nonfiction books like This is Cancer by Laura Holmes Haddad

Transform Your Habits

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

Richard Preston

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Kate Bowler

3.80

Transform Your Habits

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Susan Cain

3.98

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19 best-selling audiobook books like Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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