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    1. Depending on what type of vibe you’re after. All of these made me cry, but I do cry easily so am probably not the best benchmark for that.

      1. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa is about looking back on life and made me cry buckets, but has a very depressing general vibe.
      2. In Memoriam by Alice Winn is a war story so is naturally sad, but has a couple of themes that some people don’t enjoy.
      3. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino is one of my favourite books ever and has a magical feeling about the meaning of life.
      4. We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels is about a journalist investigating through her family history, and finding out things that we didn’t know about before.
      5. The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait. I won’t say anything about the storyline as that’ll give it away, except that I read it in 2018 and it’s stayed with me till today, and when I was feeling a bit depressed I thought about it and just ordered a copy for a re-read.
      6. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Possibly going to be a popular one for this thread, chronicles the life of 4 friends (primarily Jude), for whom life is really quite unrelenting.

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