I’m looking to find some new reads that genuinely impact me, ones I can’t put down and feel totally absorbed in.
I love books that are emotional, often heavy subject matter or tough reads but that are undercut by profound life lessons, impact of human relationships, morals or hope. Harrowing but beautiful, deeply human!
Some books I’ve loved in the past that have stuck with me are A little life – Hanya Yanagihara, On the savage side – Tiffany McDaniel, a thousand splendid suns – Khaled Hosseini, all my mothers – Joanna Glen, the book theif, where the crawdads sing etc etc
Please help! Thank you:)
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
If you’re open to nonfiction, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Their eyes were watching god
The book of negroes
I’ll stop the world
Long way down: the graphic novel
They called us enemy
Reservation blues
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Lonesome Dove by Larry McCurtry (if you like this one, you are ready for The Stand by Stephen King. While they are not nearly the same thing, there is a sameness in the character development and journey of the novel, and The Stand is longer so easier to read the shorter first)
Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (or also Kindred)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (any by her honestly)
Human Acts by Han Kang
For me it was a fantasy series with book 1 of The Gentlemen Bastards Sequence by Scott Lynch, The Lies of Loche Lamora. the book and charred were fantastic.
The end of the book Hurt. It took me years before I could pickup book 2 and get back into the story.
Assuming you also read kite runner! The god of small things by arundhati roy is great. Also shantaram
All the little raindrops – Mia Sheridan (abduction+abuse)
Forbidden – Tabitha Suzuma (really weird stuff. It sounds very unusual but it is a great read!)
Streamline – Jennifer Lane (themes of abuse)
The girls in the attic – Marius Gabriel (WWII)
Quicksand – Malin Presson Giolito (school shooting)
Where the forest meets the stars – Glendy Vanderah (pov: a mother who has lost her baby)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
h{{The River is Waiting}}
Never Let Me Go
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due