The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient, is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a charming former basketball player who lost his leg to osteosarcoma. What begins as reluctant friendship becomes a love story that asks the biggest questions about life, death, and the marks we leave behind. The novel became a cultural phenomenon and was adapted into a 2014 film that grossed $307 million worldwide.