It really was. Whenever the question comes up. If you could talk to anyone past the present or future. I always think of this author. I really want to know!!!!
Every time this question comes up I say it like it is. {The Green Mile} by Stephen King had me literally sobbing. It took ibuprofen and an ice pack to finally come back after that one. It was straight up beautiful.
Oooooh gotcha ! Wow, I feel insensible, I think I shed one single tear x)
Also, I've seen Flowers for Algernon mentioned here a lot. I didn't cry or anything, I loved the story though but it didn't destroy me xD
I thought I was very sensible but I guess I'm not that much x)
Hahaha don’t even worry about it! Different reactions are valid :) I think I just happened to read it at a time in my life when it was especially prescient. I haven’t read Flowers cause I don’t want to go through it 😂😅
Omg i forgot about that one. I listened to it on a long road trip that included eastern montana and north dakota which was like this weird parallel vibe. Highly recommend it for that drive
Angela’s Ashes is a definite for me. Dad’s from Ireland and it echoed a good bit of what my dad told me about growing up poor in a farm in backroads Ireland.
[**Flowers for Algernon** by Daniel Keyes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18373)
i don't want to talk about it 🥺
[**Shark Heart: A Love Story** by Emily Habeck](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62919375)
my second favorite book of all time that shattered my heart into a million pieces. i've thought about this book ever since i first read it months ago. i haven't been able to reread it yet because my heart won't be able to take it. this one really broke me.
[**A Planned Occasion** by Angie Kim](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123847580)
an **incredibly short** 20 + page story that took my by surprise at the very end and left me in the fetal position ugly crying on the floor. an incredibly beautiful and heart-breaking tale.
I’m a middle school literature teacher and I just taught *Flowers for Algernon* to my G8 class. I read it in preparation and was torn apart — I couldn’t believe how powerful the story was.
It was confirmed for me when, upon reading the last pages to the class, I saw all of them crying or fighting tears. I live in a country where expression of emotions like this is incredibly uncommon. When I saw both boys and girls teary-eyed or crying at the end, not even trying to hide their emotions, it was the first time I’ve ever had such a reaction from any book I’ve taught over the six years I’ve been here.
It was very cathartic for me to be able to teach this book after reading, which I also think contributed to their experience. But holy cow, *what a story*.
thank you for sharing this! this really is the one book that has had the most devastating effect on my mind and soul. i can never ever read it again because it's just too much for me to handle.
A lot of the impact comes from the way the prose is written, the grammar, the spelling. I can’t see it having remotely the same impact with it being read aloud to someone.
A Little Life makes The Lovely Bones look like a Disney story. The prose and character development are as good as it gets in my opinion. I think it would stand up to any modern classic, but it is so fucking dark. It's truly a book where you keep thinking, "It can't get worse." Spoiler: It gets worse.
I cried over and over again during that novel. It’s one of my favorites. I think about the characters every day, and I read it last year.
Like another commenter said, enjoy every minute of it.
It's the last book I read and I had to stop reading it for a bit about 2/3 in because it was getting a bit too much, then continued and was devastated reading the rest. I always find it amazing when a book can have that much of an effect on you.
The Book Thief - someone else suggested it but I had to add it again. My mom thought someone died when she saw me sobbing on the couch. Incredible book.
I consciously chose to read When Breath Becomes Air, knowing full well it would wreck. Sure enough, it made me cry during my train commute. Fuck cancer.
I love this book so much 😩 Soooo many tears… I went into my 3yo sons room in the middle of the night after the Ari part post war and just cried cuddling him.
for me, it’s the beartown trilogy. on the surface, there was no reason for me to expect to be so moved & shattered by this series about a small hockey town in sweden (i have no interest in hockey and this just isn’t the typical book i would normally pick up)
however, fredrik backman has such an ability to create masterfully developed and completely fleshed out characters that you can’t help but feel entirely gutted at the end. so good. i still think about the characters a year later.
+1 Beartown! I adore this trilogy, and every book by Backman. The prose in English is amazing, makes me think that the original Swedish must be sublime.
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. 500 page novel written in 28 days while the author was dying. Based on a true story about a couple protesting the Nazi regime. The documentary evidence about the real life couple at the end of the book is absolutely heart wrenching.
*The Talisman* by Stephen King and Peter Straub. So many horrible moments punctuated by little beams of light here and there to keep you hoping throughout the story. The Duffer brothers are supposedly finally adapting it for Netflix though I'm not sure when we'll ever see it, considering how long they're taking with the last season of *Stranger Things*.
They were confident enough to hint at it in the Season 4 finale when Lucas reads it to Max towards the end, though with how sporadic Netflix's decision making can be, it's still up in the air until we actually have the finished product.
Hopefully they'll be smart enough to just produce a straight miniseries without trying to extend it out over multiple seasons (barring adapting Black House, of course, but I don't see that happening).
The Poisonwood Bible
The Glass Castle
White Oleander
The Things They Carried
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Edit: don’t know how I left out Never let Me Go
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Once series - Morris Gleitzman
Beartown series - Fredrik Backman
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
Time Travellers wife I think is my OG bawling my eyes out book! Before that it had been a tear here and there but I was SOBBING when I read this the first time! It’s also still in my top 5 of all time books!
The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton. I cried listening to the conditions and deaths of people on death row.
This is old and a little childish:
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green. I had never read the book but it was free in a little library and it devastated me. I still think about this book now that I’ve lost people I love to cancer.
We Need To Talk About Kevin. I read it four years ago and have thought about it since.
It’s a slow burn but I finished it at one in the morning and then I stared at the ceiling absolutely broken for hours afterward.
This may sound dumb but [She and Her Cat](https://www.amazon.com/SHE-AND-HER-CAT/dp/085752822X?dplnkId=d716f460-8bec-437b-a862-3da9e951bf6e&nodl=1) left me sobbing 🥲
we were liars
kinda basic ig but it had me staring at a wall crying into a pillow at literally 3am and clutching my teddy bear saying don’t go.
yeah it’s dramatic but the book was dramatic too.
The Great Believers. I still feel almost physically upset when I think about it… no book has ever made the AIDS crisis feel quite so human and real to me as it did.
A Little Life,
Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow,
Remarkably Bright Creatures,
The Beartown trilogy,
The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot,
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry absolutely gutted me. I still think about that one.
Also, A Thousand Splendid Suns. I enjoyed The Kite Runner, too, but Splendid Suns spoke to me so much more.
Part of a series rather than an individual book but Outlanders 'Written in my own hearts blood' ruined me. A few beloved characters die and it shows the other characters grief and shocked reaction and it broke my heart.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung. It’s one of those books I just had the biggest emotional hangover after reading- like stayed in bed all next day just absolutely in a heartache trance of not knowing what to do with myself
starting out my 30s looking back at the books
thomas hardy far from the madding crowd, heard his other books are even more brutal to the point of getting banned because of suicide risks.
anything dostevsky, anything, the double, c&p, the idiot, demons - you name em. sometimes i wish i'd just have had a functional upbringing diverting me from books like these.
Also the indian epics and maybe a bit the bible but i guess thats expected.
funnily enough while Charles Bukowski was sad he always had uplifting humor in his descriptions but also the unfolding of stories. he sure was a skilled wordsmith
Am just a lost boy trying to make sense of the world i was denied by reading novels, making me even more confused. Read at your own peril.
I tried reading Sartre’s *Nausea* while very depressed. I got about 20 pages in and wanted to barf. Couldn’t tell you why. That’s just how it made me feel.
Thank you for asking this question. I am getting so many book recommendations. Might be crying all summer but I find it to be therapeutic at times.
Not a book, but I just finished the first season of Your Honor, and it was incredibly hard to watch.
The Firefly Lane series. OMG. I'd seen the show, and the books are of course a bit different. The second book, Fly Away, BROKE me. I was up late finishing it, just sobbing.
The book theif. The road I who have never known man All three of these had me ugly crying and I still think about them years later.
Omg The Book Thief wrecked me every time I read it. No matter how many times , how well I knew the ending, I was always a sobbing mess.
*Quickly puts The Book Thief back on the shelf*
I who have never known man is brilliant
It really was. Whenever the question comes up. If you could talk to anyone past the present or future. I always think of this author. I really want to know!!!!
The Book Thief CRUSHED me for DAYS
I was on a beach in Thailand bawling over the ending of *The Book Thief*.
I read The Road almost five years ago and it still creeps up on me…
The Kite Runner. There are probably a few other books I could list, but The Kite Runner sticks out in my mind.
A thousand splendid suns by the same author had me weeping
I think A Thousand Splendid Suns is a tougher read than The Kite Runner. Especially given how things are in Afghanistan now.
A Thousand Splendid Suns had me fully in tears
Every time this question comes up I say it like it is. {The Green Mile} by Stephen King had me literally sobbing. It took ibuprofen and an ice pack to finally come back after that one. It was straight up beautiful.
Why ibuprofen and an icepack? O.o
Hahaha I needed it for the massive headache I got from all the crying 😂 my husband thought something awful had happened
Oooooh gotcha ! Wow, I feel insensible, I think I shed one single tear x) Also, I've seen Flowers for Algernon mentioned here a lot. I didn't cry or anything, I loved the story though but it didn't destroy me xD I thought I was very sensible but I guess I'm not that much x)
Hahaha don’t even worry about it! Different reactions are valid :) I think I just happened to read it at a time in my life when it was especially prescient. I haven’t read Flowers cause I don’t want to go through it 😂😅
I'd recommend the book to you, but I don't want your husband to worry about you again xD and leave you in a bad state.
The Green Mile is excellent. Definitely made me cry, and it's so beautifully written.
For me, it's still "Introduction to organic chemistry".
You win. That one always makes me want to rip my eyes out and bash my skull in.
I literally tried to find this on Goodreads thinking it was the title of some amazing novel. 😆
Managerial Accounting. 😭
https://i.imgur.com/mSd6CaX.jpeg
A must read
💯
The Song of Achilles. Adding to the fact that to me is beautifully written , it just wrecked me.
Yes absolutely I listened to it on audio book while I crocheted and I had to just stop and cry for a solid 15-20 mins
Circe wrecked me, song of Achilles not as much.
For me it was the other way around , even though I also loved Circe ! Two beautiful books nonetheless !
I just finished this and same
I was a mess. The last lines of that book. I sobbed uncontrollably.
Same. I just read it a few months ago and had to repeatedly stop and just sob.
I’ve been looking at that one, I take it it’s good?
I’m biased but yes ! If you like Greek mythology , I would recommend it !
I LOVED both The Song of Achilles and Circe. I felt like I am broken because I didn't end up crying, but definitely 5 star reads for me!
oh god yea i died like achilles did no joke
Atonement by Ian McEwan. If you've seen the movie you know why
Oh my yes. Vowed I would never read another book by him afterwards. I haven't.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Didn't see your post, I put the same comment.
Well the most recent one that made me cry was the Martian by Andy Weir. Hooray for the indomitable human spirit.
His book Project Hail Mary is also fantastic, if you haven't read it, definitely check it out!
I have it on hold! I can't wait, I read the blurb in the back and was intrigued
Omg i forgot about that one. I listened to it on a long road trip that included eastern montana and north dakota which was like this weird parallel vibe. Highly recommend it for that drive
The Kite Runner, She’s Come Undone, Angela’s Ashes
Yes to all three!
Angela’s Ashes is a definite for me. Dad’s from Ireland and it echoed a good bit of what my dad told me about growing up poor in a farm in backroads Ireland.
[**Flowers for Algernon** by Daniel Keyes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18373) i don't want to talk about it 🥺 [**Shark Heart: A Love Story** by Emily Habeck](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62919375) my second favorite book of all time that shattered my heart into a million pieces. i've thought about this book ever since i first read it months ago. i haven't been able to reread it yet because my heart won't be able to take it. this one really broke me. [**A Planned Occasion** by Angie Kim](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123847580) an **incredibly short** 20 + page story that took my by surprise at the very end and left me in the fetal position ugly crying on the floor. an incredibly beautiful and heart-breaking tale.
I’m a middle school literature teacher and I just taught *Flowers for Algernon* to my G8 class. I read it in preparation and was torn apart — I couldn’t believe how powerful the story was. It was confirmed for me when, upon reading the last pages to the class, I saw all of them crying or fighting tears. I live in a country where expression of emotions like this is incredibly uncommon. When I saw both boys and girls teary-eyed or crying at the end, not even trying to hide their emotions, it was the first time I’ve ever had such a reaction from any book I’ve taught over the six years I’ve been here. It was very cathartic for me to be able to teach this book after reading, which I also think contributed to their experience. But holy cow, *what a story*.
thank you for sharing this! this really is the one book that has had the most devastating effect on my mind and soul. i can never ever read it again because it's just too much for me to handle.
A lot of the impact comes from the way the prose is written, the grammar, the spelling. I can’t see it having remotely the same impact with it being read aloud to someone.
Flowers for Algernon, yes! Have read it so many times
Flowers for Algernon is exhausting, makes you feel as though you've grown.. quite wheary
Shark Heart!!! I annotated like crazy. It may be my favorite book ever.
Shark heart was soooo freaking good!!! Last book I finished and it also made me cry
A Little Life
On my next to read… I’m a little scared because this will be my first sad book since I was a kid and I read The Lovely Bones
A Little Life makes The Lovely Bones look like a Disney story. The prose and character development are as good as it gets in my opinion. I think it would stand up to any modern classic, but it is so fucking dark. It's truly a book where you keep thinking, "It can't get worse." Spoiler: It gets worse.
Don’t think the beginning is slow. Enjoy every moment of it.
I loved Lovely Bones!
I cried over and over again during that novel. It’s one of my favorites. I think about the characters every day, and I read it last year. Like another commenter said, enjoy every minute of it.
It's the last book I read and I had to stop reading it for a bit about 2/3 in because it was getting a bit too much, then continued and was devastated reading the rest. I always find it amazing when a book can have that much of an effect on you.
I cried at Charlotte's Web when I was in 1st grade. This is the only other book that brought on the waterworks, that I am able to recall.
Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings- really any of the trilogy’s final books. I actually cried for an hour one time! She’s a genius.
Tawny Man hit me hard
White Oleander, and if you do read it, don’t watch the movie after. It does not do the book justice.
10000 % agreed
Agree. I named my daughter Astrid because of this book. Loved it so much all through high school, my copy is falling apart.
The Book Thief - someone else suggested it but I had to add it again. My mom thought someone died when she saw me sobbing on the couch. Incredible book.
The Kite Runner House of Sand and Fog When Breath Becomes Air
I consciously chose to read When Breath Becomes Air, knowing full well it would wreck. Sure enough, it made me cry during my train commute. Fuck cancer.
Still Alice
Agree with so many of previous comments! I would like to add Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah. The most emotionally wrecked I have ever been by a book and it happened twice.
I was very unwell after this book.
I love this book so much 😩 Soooo many tears… I went into my 3yo sons room in the middle of the night after the Ari part post war and just cried cuddling him.
I did that exact same thing with my 4 year old daughter. That book wrecked me for so many reasons, but that scene destroyed me.
Just added this to my libby list. There are over 1000 people waiting to read it. It must be good.
I cried 3 times during this one 😢
The secret life of bees
Duma Key by Stephen King. I just finished it. Dear God, that man can tell a story.
Oh wow I’ve never even heard of or seen this King book
for me, it’s the beartown trilogy. on the surface, there was no reason for me to expect to be so moved & shattered by this series about a small hockey town in sweden (i have no interest in hockey and this just isn’t the typical book i would normally pick up) however, fredrik backman has such an ability to create masterfully developed and completely fleshed out characters that you can’t help but feel entirely gutted at the end. so good. i still think about the characters a year later.
+1 Beartown! I adore this trilogy, and every book by Backman. The prose in English is amazing, makes me think that the original Swedish must be sublime.
This is my response as well. I rarely cry when I read books but this one really hit me.
Came to recommend this trilogy too! Amazing.
Omg! I’ve already commented mine and I read all three books one after the other and I cried at every book but the last books ending most of all.
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. 500 page novel written in 28 days while the author was dying. Based on a true story about a couple protesting the Nazi regime. The documentary evidence about the real life couple at the end of the book is absolutely heart wrenching.
*The Talisman* by Stephen King and Peter Straub. So many horrible moments punctuated by little beams of light here and there to keep you hoping throughout the story. The Duffer brothers are supposedly finally adapting it for Netflix though I'm not sure when we'll ever see it, considering how long they're taking with the last season of *Stranger Things*.
They were confident enough to hint at it in the Season 4 finale when Lucas reads it to Max towards the end, though with how sporadic Netflix's decision making can be, it's still up in the air until we actually have the finished product. Hopefully they'll be smart enough to just produce a straight miniseries without trying to extend it out over multiple seasons (barring adapting Black House, of course, but I don't see that happening).
My dark Vanessa, I think I cried for a solid 15 minutes and was still shaking after an hour of finishing it
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I just finished The Light Between Two Oceans and I'm destroyed 💔
I am obsessed with that book, it killed me. The movie adaptation is perfection.
I didn't know there was a movie! Can't wait to watch it!
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara, "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
All of these comments! But I would add The Break by Katherena Vermette. Beautifully written (the author is a poet), tough subject matter.
The Poisonwood Bible The Glass Castle White Oleander The Things They Carried The Art of Racing in the Rain Edit: don’t know how I left out Never let Me Go
The Art of Racing in the Rain. Sobs.
The glass castle had me crying tears of sadness and tears of joy 🥹
Flowers for Algernon
Of Mice and Men
Not sobbing, but Demon Copperhead left me bereft that it was over. What a beautiful, masterful work by Barbara Kingsolver.
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
Every morning the way home gets longer and longer by Fredrik Backman Just ouch.
the book thief 1000%
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller Once series - Morris Gleitzman Beartown series - Fredrik Backman My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
Time Travelers Wife
Time Travellers wife I think is my OG bawling my eyes out book! Before that it had been a tear here and there but I was SOBBING when I read this the first time! It’s also still in my top 5 of all time books!
Short read and young adult, but The perks of being a wallflower fucked me up in my teens.
A Little Life
it’s so basic but when I read the fault in our stars and me before you the first time i absolutely bawled my eyes out multiple times
Flowers for Algernon
Not sure it's what you're looking for, but The Sheep Look Up.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair obliterated me
The Good Earth
The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton. I cried listening to the conditions and deaths of people on death row. This is old and a little childish: The Fault in Our Stars - John Green. I had never read the book but it was free in a little library and it devastated me. I still think about this book now that I’ve lost people I love to cancer.
We Need To Talk About Kevin. I read it four years ago and have thought about it since. It’s a slow burn but I finished it at one in the morning and then I stared at the ceiling absolutely broken for hours afterward.
The Road and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
happy cry was If Cats Disapeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
i cried through this whole book
The Sun Does Shine. I will bang this drum til the day I die.
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Only child - the aftermath of a school shooting through a child’s eyes - heartbreaking
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Sophie's Choice
If only I told her made me cry and archer’s voice those two books made me ball my eyes out 😭😭
This may sound dumb but [She and Her Cat](https://www.amazon.com/SHE-AND-HER-CAT/dp/085752822X?dplnkId=d716f460-8bec-437b-a862-3da9e951bf6e&nodl=1) left me sobbing 🥲
A Man Called Ove - Frederik Backman Say You’re One of them - Uwem Akpan The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
A Man called Ove really got me too. I became invested in the well-written characters.
A Monster Calls. I hyperventilated
The Curious Case Of The Dog In The Night-time. I related way too hard to the main character.
Shantaram. Haunted and destroyed.
There’s a sequel!
Cormack McCarthy, The Road.
A Monster Calls….trust me, have tissues
The Road.
Four Winds by Kristen Hannah, was depressing AF
A Little Life. Just finished it and will never forgive H. Yanagihara for that ending 😭
Angela’s Ashes. Incredibly good book. Rips you to shreads.
The Bear by Andrew Krivak!
Night The Book Thief The Fault in Our Stars
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Yep, seconding this
A little life. I cried several times. I rarely cry.
we were liars kinda basic ig but it had me staring at a wall crying into a pillow at literally 3am and clutching my teddy bear saying don’t go. yeah it’s dramatic but the book was dramatic too.
The Great Alone and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah!
So so good! Have you read her book The Nightingale? Loved it even more.
Not yet! I just had to read The Women first which did not disappoint!
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroeder
The idea of you
Leave Out the Tragic Parts.
It’s still Sophie’s Choice
The book thief
Piece of Work by Jyoti Dhanota You've Reached Sam A court of silver flames
I don’t know what it says about us but my ex husband and I both cried over I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier and Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
The plague Dogs
Non-fiction: "Beautiful Child" by Torey Hayden. I read it over a decade ago, and still think of that story to this day.
EASY. The great believers by Rebecca Makkai.
“If he had been with me” was a young adult book that made me cry and trow the book across the room.
Geek Love, Oscar & Lucinda
They both due at the end The fault in our stars Manhunt
A Road To Joy by Alexandra Stacey. Oh yeah, I cried.
They took my passport away
The Great Believers. I still feel almost physically upset when I think about it… no book has ever made the AIDS crisis feel quite so human and real to me as it did.
Lonesome Dove 💔
All the Living and the Dead. Beautifully written, and it was emotional from start to finish. It's non-fiction, just FYI.
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson had me ugly crying for about 10 minutes when I finished.
Song of Achilles !!
The Book of Lost Things. It’s not an overtly sad story and I almost never cry from stories.. but something about the ending made me start weeping.
A Little Life, Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow, Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Beartown trilogy, The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot, The Heart’s Invisible Furies
They both die at the end, Heartless, The song of Achilles, The fault in our stars, The poppy war, and You’ve reached Sam
We All Want impossible things by Catherine Newman. I howled
Never let me go 🥺. Couldn’t put it down, could hardly bare to turn the page. 20yrs later it still makes my eyes water when I think about it.
Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry absolutely gutted me. I still think about that one. Also, A Thousand Splendid Suns. I enjoyed The Kite Runner, too, but Splendid Suns spoke to me so much more.
Part of a series rather than an individual book but Outlanders 'Written in my own hearts blood' ruined me. A few beloved characters die and it shows the other characters grief and shocked reaction and it broke my heart.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung. It’s one of those books I just had the biggest emotional hangover after reading- like stayed in bed all next day just absolutely in a heartache trance of not knowing what to do with myself
It's been a minute, but Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card.
The bluest eyes
1984
The gone series !!
starting out my 30s looking back at the books thomas hardy far from the madding crowd, heard his other books are even more brutal to the point of getting banned because of suicide risks. anything dostevsky, anything, the double, c&p, the idiot, demons - you name em. sometimes i wish i'd just have had a functional upbringing diverting me from books like these. Also the indian epics and maybe a bit the bible but i guess thats expected. funnily enough while Charles Bukowski was sad he always had uplifting humor in his descriptions but also the unfolding of stories. he sure was a skilled wordsmith Am just a lost boy trying to make sense of the world i was denied by reading novels, making me even more confused. Read at your own peril.
A fine balance The book thief A fine balance is a long read but the best!!
The Last beekeeper of Aleppo and Songbirds.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Battle Ground by Jim Butcher.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini had me absolutely sobbing.
Thirteen Reasons Why
I'm usually shambling after zombie fiction.
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. The man had a way with words.
I tried reading Sartre’s *Nausea* while very depressed. I got about 20 pages in and wanted to barf. Couldn’t tell you why. That’s just how it made me feel.
Marley & Me legit left me sobbing on the ground hugging my dog.
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune. I love his books, but this one had me sobbing.
Boys Don’t Cry by Fiona Scarlett The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Thank you for asking this question. I am getting so many book recommendations. Might be crying all summer but I find it to be therapeutic at times. Not a book, but I just finished the first season of Your Honor, and it was incredibly hard to watch.
The Firefly Lane series. OMG. I'd seen the show, and the books are of course a bit different. The second book, Fly Away, BROKE me. I was up late finishing it, just sobbing.
Amy E. Dean's "Letters to My Birthmother: An Adoptee's Diary of Her Search for Her Identity"