Hey y’all! As the title suggests, I’m looking for something completely devastating, gut-wrenching, that will leave me thinking about it for maybe forever.
To preface, I’m not a huge romance reader and not necessarily looking for romance suggestion. I did read normal people and if he had been with me (both recommended to make me ugly cry), and while I did feel bad for the MCs it just didn’t give me that feeling of devastation.
A little life is on my list but I haven’t tackled it yet due to length. The only book that I would say has left me feeling this way recently (within the last couple years), would be Tuesdays with Morrie. I think about it often. I just need something to make me FEEL things.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This by Nadia Spiegelman
*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee* by Dee Brown
The fiction books that have made me cry the most in the last several years are:
*The Storied Life of AJ Fickery* by Gabrielle Zevin
*Sharks in the Time of Saviors* by Kawai Strong Washburn
*The Last True Poets of the Sea* by Julia Drake
*A Man Called Ove* by Fredrich Bachman
*The Lions of Al-Rassan* by Guy Gavriel Kay
*Among Others* by Jo Walton
“On the Beach” by Nevil Shute
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel and When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Charlotte’s Webb
William Maxwell’s *So Long, See You Tomorrow* and *They Came Like Swallows* are beautifully, poetically devastating.
Also, John William’s *Stoner* is heart-breaking and his *Butcher’s Crossing* is equally so!
Of mice and men,