The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
This entrancing book is about a 16 year old cancer patient named Hazel Lancaster. This strong minded girl narrates the book, during which she meets a boy named Augustus Waters. They both live in Indianapolis and meet at a Cancer Kid Support Group through a friend who knew both Hazel and Augustus. Hazel is very anti-social and normally keeps to herself and reads, quite frequently, the book An Imperial Afflicion by Peter van Houten. She has become somewhat obsessed with the book and quite frequently quotes it.
This book gives you insight to the mind of a depressed teenage girl suffering the horror of cancer. She has had trouble breathing because of this illness and jokes about it because she knows it will never go away. This book is very believable, as well as comical, romantic, and tragic. If you like any of these things, you would like this book. From the moment you first step into the mind of Hazel, you never want to put the book down. You eventually start to feel for and even love the characters. A month after finishing the book, I picked it up and read it again. That is how good this book is. I promise you will like it.
If I have not already convinced you, it was The #1 New York Times bestseller
If you want to hear the author reading the first chapter, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_vFvbfn9Fs
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