Books like Handle with care by Dorothy Snodgrass Brown

A poignant young‑adult tale of two teens—Hazel and Augustus—who meet in a cancer support group, and whose unlikely romance forces them to confront love, illness, and the meaning of life.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Louisa Clark, an ordinary young woman, becomes caregiver to the ex‑British billionaire Will Traynor, who has become wheelchair‑bound after an accident. Their unlikely relationship compels Louisa to challenge what it means to live fully and to help Will find a reason to survive.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks follows the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her consent and later became the first immortal human cell line, HeLa, driving major scientific breakthroughs while raising questions of ethics, race, and medical exploitation.

In 1970s Ohio, the Lee family’s fragile harmony shatters when their daughter Lydia is found dead in a lake, forcing them to confront hidden secrets and cultural expectations.

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

A compelling biography of Susannah Cahalan's battle with encephalitis and the challenges of diagnosis and recovery.

"Still Alice" follows a Harvard professor who confronts the sudden onset of Alzheimer’s disease, depicting the emotional and cognitive challenges of losing one’s memory while striving to maintain independence.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

A practical guide for families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s and related memory disorders, offering updated advice on care, safety, legal and financial planning, and support resources.