Hello all 👋
I am looking for books that will tear me apart like I’ll be full on sobbing while reading it. I’m just in that mood ya know?
These are the ones I’ve read that have already been recommended to me:
A Monster Calls
Flowers for Algernon
The Road
Everything I Never Told You
I have these books on hold at the library:
A Little Life
Never Let Me Go
The Kite Runner
Can you recommend some more that will fit this description?
by Hot-Initial7333
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The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai was fantastic and very sad — it’s a novel about young gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic. I read it over a year ago and still find myself thinking of some of the characters sometimes.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead is historical fiction about young black boys sent to a brutal reform school, based on a real place. I don’t want to spoil anything, but when I finished it I felt like I’d been punched in the gut (The Underground Railroad by Whitehead also is quite sad, and both books won the Pulitzer Prize. He also has fantastic, less sad books — but only the sad ones seem to win Pulitzers!)
Anna Karenina — not sure you’re looking for a classic of this magnitude, but let me tell you, it’s a bummer
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. If A Monster Calls made you sob, then I think this will make you tear up as well.
A few recent books that made me sob:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
A Girl is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride