 |
AMAZON.COM shopping Benefit! Whenever shopping on Amazon.com, come here first and click this banner and we get up to 15% of your purchase to use for research, and it does not cost you anything extra! You can shop on any section of Amazon
ENDLESS.COM shopping Benefit! Whenever shopping on Endless.com, come here first and click this banner and we get up to 15% of your purchase to use for research, and it does not cost you anything extra!
Scroll below the Amazon store to see more books and to vote for your favorites!
A portion (about 4%) of sales from our Amazon store are donated back to us to help support our mission of speeding up the search for the cure!
- This is a list of some of the books that we have found useful.
- They are rated on a scale of 0 to 10 - with 10 the best - by you!
- If you have read one of the books on the list, please click on the VOTE link to cast your ballot for it! 1 = worst, 10 = best
- To buy the book, click on the title. This will bring you to the Amazon.com site, where the books are cheapest! It will show you details of the book and the price before you commit!
- We will get a commission on any books you buy if you enter the site from this page, so ALWAYS stop by here before going bookshopping! It doesn't cost you anything extra, but it helps us pay to maintain this website!
- Also check out Second Chance - A book about a brain tumor survivor that you can read online (free).
- If you know of a book that belongs here, click here to suggest it!
Note to families dealing with a child who has a brain tumor: The book listed below, "Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors: A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers" is a must read. IF you can not EASILY afford it, the Candlelighters Foundation will send you a free copy. Click HERE for details - then click on books.
Dying Can Change Your Life
A FREE book about one man's experiance with a brain tumor.
"Sometimes Your Head" A FREE illustrated book for children dealing with brain tumors. Please click here to let us know how you like this book after you read it. (Note: the book is in .pdf format - which requires the free adobe reader, and it may take a few minutes to download.)
Can I Take My Panda Daddy? -(Written by his father), is a beautiful, sad and inspiring memoir about a four year old boy with a malignant brain stem tumor.
| | | |
Title / Author | |
Average Score | |
Votes | |
Vote | | |
|
100 Questions about brain tumors (New Edition 2010)
Dr. Virginia Stark-Vance | |
6.09 | |
70,239 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge (Updated Edition)
Yocheved Golani | |
5.92 | |
53,470 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living
Samuel Lee Oliver | |
5.60 | |
61,166 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
I am a Kid living with Cancer
Jenevieve Fisher | |
5.57 | |
17,720 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
The Angel Letters: Lessons That Dying Can Teach us About Living
Norman J. Fried | |
5.56 | |
53,671 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Sad but O.K. : My Daddy Died Today : A Childs View of Death
Barbara Frisbie | |
5.55 | |
68,473 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Handbook of Brain Tumor Chemotherapy
Herbert Newton | |
5.54 | |
60,207 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
The Disability Experience: A Healing Journey
Arthur Soissons-Segal, Ph.D. | |
5.54 | |
66,466 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Living with a Brain Tumor: Dr. Peter Black`s Guide to Taking Control of Your Treatment
Dr. Peter Black | |
5.54 | |
53,027 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles
Keith Black | |
5.53 | |
31,049 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
That's Unacceptable!
Rebecca Libutti | |
5.53 | |
72,808 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Vista Point (CD)
Not By Chance | |
5.53 | |
72,583 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient
Eric Anthony Galvez | |
5.53 | |
47,652 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Surviving and Thriving: A Brain Tumor Survivor's Story
Time Ward | |
5.53 | |
20,922 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life
Maria Hewitt | |
5.53 | |
65,814 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Neuroanatomy Made Easy and Simple
S. David Gertz | |
5.53 | |
68,365 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong | |
5.53 | |
67,588 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Making Miracles Happen
Gregory White Smith | |
5.52 | |
68,282 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Dance When the Brain Says No
Mary Kathleen Price | |
5.52 | |
27,599 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Magic Cancer Bullet: How a Tiny Orange Pill May Rewrite Medical History (The Story of Gleevec)
Dan Vasella | |
5.52 | |
68,057 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Not By Chance (CD)
Not By Chance | |
5.52 | |
71,225 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Making the Radiation Therapy Decision
David J. Brenner | |
5.51 | |
69,493 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Dr. Folkmans War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer
Robert Cooke | |
5.51 | |
68,484 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Glioblastoma Multiforme
James M. Markert, MD | |
5.51 | |
64,094 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
CNS Cancer
Erwin G. Van Meir | |
5.51 | |
29,326 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Notes Left Behind: 135 Days with Elena
Keith Desserich | |
5.51 | |
35,048 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
STEPPING OVER MYSELF: FINDING MY WAY AND MY LIFE AFTER A BRAIN TUMOR
AYIS CAPERONIS | |
5.50 | |
27,359 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Surviving `Terminal Cancer`: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails, and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won`t Tell You about
Ben Williams, PhD | |
5.50 | |
76,912 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
The Complete Bedside Companion : A No-Nonsense Guide to Caring for the Seriously Ill
Rodger McFarlane | |
5.50 | |
68,102 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
The Year of the Bird
Susan Spangler | |
5.50 | |
2,717 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
The Disability Experience: A Healing Journey
Arthur Soissons-Segal,Ph.D. | |
5.50 | |
64,277 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
The Busy Peoples Guide To Low Fat Cookbook (Author is the spouse of a brain tumor patient - using this book as a fundraiser)
Dawn Hall | |
5.50 | |
70,498 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors: A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers
Tania Shiminski-Maher | |
5.49 | |
67,570 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Brain Tumor Invasion : Biological, Clinical, and Therapeutic Considerations
Tom Mikkelsen | |
5.49 | |
67,460 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers
Maria M. Meyer | |
5.49 | |
68,137 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Brain Tumors: Leaving the Garden of Eden, a Survival Guide to Diagnosis, Learning the Basics, Getting Organized, & Finding Your Medical Team
Paul Zeltzer, MD | |
5.49 | |
64,024 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Navigating Through a Strange Land : A Book for Brain Tumor Patients and Their Families
Tricia Ann Roloff | |
5.49 | |
69,922 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Stella~s Story: Fighting for Life Against a Malignant Brain Tumor
Kay Loveland | |
5.48 | |
64,531 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Cancer As a Turning Point : A Handbook for People With Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals
Lawrence LeShan | |
5.48 | |
68,465 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple
Stephen Goldberg | |
5.48 | |
70,655 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
When Cancer Entered Our Family: How We Lived, Laughed, Cried and Survived
Moyra McDill | |
5.48 | |
50,438 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods
American Cancer Society | |
5.47 | |
69,821 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Brain Tumors: Finding the Ark. Meeting the Challenges of Treatment Choices, Side Effects, Childrens Issues, Healthcare Costs and Long Term Survival
Dr. Paul Zeltzer | |
5.47 | |
51,715 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
The Radiation Sonnets: For My Love, in Sickness and in Health
Jane Yolen | |
5.47 | |
65,121 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
The Practical Management of Low-Grade Primary Brain Tumors
Jack P. Rock | |
5.46 | |
69,468 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: A Life Book That Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge
Yocheved Golani | |
5.45 | |
22,951 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Brain Tumor Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Al Musella, DPM | |
5.44 | |
18,791 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Force a Miracle
Darryl C. Didier | |
5.43 | |
66,402 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
The Gliomas
Mitchel S. Berger MD | |
5.42 | |
71,019 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
Principles and Practice of Neuro-oncology
Minesh Mehta, MD | |
5.41 | |
21,097 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | |
|
Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy
John C. Boik | |
4.73 | |
76,776 | |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 | | | | |
|
|
|
