 | When Suffering Persists by Frederick W. Jr. Schmidt
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.89 This is a thoughtful approach to the problem of suffering and spirituality. It acknowledges the platitudes often presented to the sufferer, and systematically goes about explaining a much more compassionate response.
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 | On Being a Christian by Hans Kung
Buy new: $23.08 / Used from: $0.65 Kung addresses the topic of suffering briefly but eloquently in his section on the Interpretations of Death
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 | Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 A thoroughly enjoyable, easy to read allegory. Voltaire was a philosopher who was profoundly affected by the suffering of others. The optimism of his youth (affected by Leibnitz) was replaced by a mature and compassionate empathy. He came to realize that there were no satisfactory theological or philosophical explanations to justify or account for the horrors experienced by humankind.
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 | Night by Elie Wiesel
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.24 |
 | A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $8.63 / Used from: $3.38 |
 | The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: $8.00 An excellent address of the topic, although I completely disagree with his last chapter addressing the suffering of animals.
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 | Raging With Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil by John Swinton
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $4.36 |
 | God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $22.32 / Used from: $9.00 |
 | On the Passion of Christ: According to the Four Evangelists : Prayers and Meditations by Thomas a Kempis
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $1.60 |
 | Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life (Society and Aging) (Society and Aging Series) by Helen K. Black
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $29.80 |
 | Suffering Religion by Robert Gibbs
Buy new: $130.00 / Used from: $79.37 "excellent reading on Job as textual theodicy; suffering in theory"
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 | God, Medicine, and Suffering by Mr. Stanley M. Hauerwas
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $4.25 |
 | Religion, Health and Suffering by PORTER
Buy new: $175.00 / Used from: $48.91 cross-religious views on suffering
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 | The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $7.50 |
 | Process Theology: A Basic Introduction by C. Robert Mesle
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $7.77 Again, not a book explicitly addressed to suffering, but the approach of process theology offered me a tolerable way to view a cosmic cause for suffering. Systems tend towards entropy.
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 | Pain Seeking Understanding: Suffering, Medicine, and Faith
Buy used from: $23.06 |
 | A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering (Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner, Vol 8)
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.51 |
 | The Problem of Evil & the Problem of God by D. Z. Phillips
Buy new: $17.74 / Used from: $6.48 |
 | The History of Pain by Roselyne Rey
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $11.98 |
 | The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society by Henri Nouwen
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $3.51 |
 | Pain: The Science of Suffering (Maps of the Mind) by Patrick Wall
Buy used from: $1.00 |
 | The Many Faces of Evil: Theological Systems and the Problems of Evil by John S. Feinberg
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $16.39 |
 | How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil by D. Carson
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $8.95 |
 | The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.52 This book looks at the "big picture." It details how pain affects society and how pain and suffering is used as a political tool. More importantly, it describes the relationship between pain and language, specifically how pain takes away language.
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 | The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948 by W. H. Auden
Buy new: $60.18 / Used from: $32.25 Included in this large tome is a "must-read" poem titled Musee des Beaux Arts. The theme of the poem is the apathy with which humans view individual suffering--this apathy has caused me as much emotional suffering as my illness has caused physical suffering.
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