I'm looking for some really heartbreaking but lesser known books to read – so nothing like "A Little Life" or "Les Miserables". Has ayone got any recommendations for me? Something well written?
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
DeanWinchestersST on
I’m currently reading “Sisters Of The Sky” by Lana Kortchik. It’s about a female only unit of pilots in world war 2. It’s definitely been a tear jerker.
DeerTheDeer on
The Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Zhang
DALTT on
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksander Hemon
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (not not well known, it won the Booker, but I rarely see it talked about online)
Tell Me How To Be by Neel Patel
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (this one is a connected anthology of short stories, and it was pretty gutting too).
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
butler_leguin on
I found this book to be sad but haven’t seen it talked about:
A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett.
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Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
I’m currently reading “Sisters Of The Sky” by Lana Kortchik. It’s about a female only unit of pilots in world war 2. It’s definitely been a tear jerker.
The Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Zhang
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksander Hemon
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (not not well known, it won the Booker, but I rarely see it talked about online)
Tell Me How To Be by Neel Patel
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (this one is a connected anthology of short stories, and it was pretty gutting too).
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
I found this book to be sad but haven’t seen it talked about:
A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett.
The Weight of Air by David Poses