No genre excluded. by Takatukah Related: Looking for recommendations Haunted House/ Haunted building? Something spooky but not gory Haven’t read in a while trying to start again Any good prison romance books? Help!
very931 on April 23, 2025 3:45 pm I suggest this with the most caution because I’ll never read it again even though I loved it. “A heart that works” by Rob Delaney It’s non-fiction and is about the loss of his child.
ShakespeherianRag on April 23, 2025 3:49 pm *Crying in H Mart* is a memoir about losing a parent. *Landbridge* is a memoir about living and dying. Both are gut-wrenching. So is *Dictée*.
lovemerricat on April 23, 2025 3:50 pm sad gut punches: never let me go AND klara and the sun – kazuo ishiguro (dystopian, lit fic) flowers for algernon – daniel keyes (sci fi(??), lit fic) i’m thinking of ending things – iain reid (horror adjacent, just weird) house of bone and rain – gabino iglesias (horror, one of my top 5 of last year, made me sob) boys in the valley – phillip fracassi (saddest horror i’ve read…. so far) what the FUCK gut punches: brother – ania ahlborn (horror) the ruins – scott smith (horror) earthlings – sayaka murata (lit fic, horror)
Remarkable_Inchworm on April 23, 2025 4:01 pm Demon Copperhead. I read the whole book thinking “Good God, can’t this kid get a break?”
Sm20030 on April 23, 2025 4:12 pm I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb And the Mountains Echoed & Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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I suggest this with the most caution because I’ll never read it again even though I loved it.
“A heart that works” by Rob Delaney
It’s non-fiction and is about the loss of his child.
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
*Crying in H Mart* is a memoir about losing a parent. *Landbridge* is a memoir about living and dying. Both are gut-wrenching. So is *Dictée*.
sad gut punches:
never let me go AND klara and the sun – kazuo ishiguro (dystopian, lit fic)
flowers for algernon – daniel keyes (sci fi(??), lit fic)
i’m thinking of ending things – iain reid (horror adjacent, just weird)
house of bone and rain – gabino iglesias (horror, one of my top 5 of last year, made me sob)
boys in the valley – phillip fracassi (saddest horror i’ve read…. so far)
what the FUCK gut punches:
brother – ania ahlborn (horror)
the ruins – scott smith (horror)
earthlings – sayaka murata (lit fic, horror)
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Demon Copperhead.
I read the whole book thinking “Good God, can’t this kid get a break?”
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
And the Mountains Echoed & Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
City of Thieves. David Benioff