Books like Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene

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.

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York as they confront trauma, love and the enduring scars of their pasts, weaving themes of friendship, family, and identity into a profound coming‑of‑age story.

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

After her father’s sudden death, Helen Macdonald turns to falconry, training a fierce goshawk named Mabel as a way to cope with grief and explore human-animal bonds.

Lacey Elliot faces a family mystery when her estranged mother recovers from illness and a hidden letter reveals a great-aunt’s connection to her missing father, leading her to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, to uncover long‑shrouded truths.

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.

The Bright Hour is a moving memoir in which poet Nina Riggs chronicles her life with terminal breast cancer, exploring how to live fully amid death, illness, and the emotional landscape of being a mother and patient.

Elizabeth Alexander, a celebrated African‑American poet, chronicles the profound grief and renewal she finds after her husband’s sudden death, offering a moving memoir of loss, family, and the search for meaning.

With his sun-burnished hair, his chiseled features and muscles of warm steel, he was the most dangerous--and desirable--man shed ever met. A Seattle-based free-lance photojournalist, Jenny was assigned an article on mountain climbing--the challenging new leisure activity for women. The only woman enrolled in Logan Kent's climbing school, she certainly felt challenged. Clearly Logan was committed to scaling impossible heights as he would never be committed to any woman. She called herself a fool for loving a man who thrived on danger

Indigo, a twelve‑year‑old boy, defends himself and an American newcomer from classmates’ bullying, spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose.