The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock. It makes me sad that I’ll probably read nothing like it ever again.
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Buckeye- basically trauma porn. By the end, I was depressed just reading all the things that happened to the people.
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Made me cry on public transit
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The Lamb by Lucy Rose
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***I Who Have Never Known Men* by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)** and ***The Memory Police* by Yōko Ogawa (1994)** are two books I’ve recently read that have left me… questioning everything.
They’re not tragic in the same way as *A Little Life*, but sort of philosophically devastating.
Also, **Hanya Yanagihara’s debut, *The People in the Trees* (2013)** emotionally wrecked me too. Again, differently than *A Little Life*, but very viscerally.
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*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by khaleed hosseini
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“Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sheri Fink. Those poor people.
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The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock. It makes me sad that I’ll probably read nothing like it ever again.
Buckeye- basically trauma porn. By the end, I was depressed just reading all the things that happened to the people.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Made me cry on public transit
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
***I Who Have Never Known Men* by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)** and ***The Memory Police* by Yōko Ogawa (1994)** are two books I’ve recently read that have left me… questioning everything.
They’re not tragic in the same way as *A Little Life*, but sort of philosophically devastating.
Also, **Hanya Yanagihara’s debut, *The People in the Trees* (2013)** emotionally wrecked me too. Again, differently than *A Little Life*, but very viscerally.
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
A Thousand Splendid Suns by khaleed hosseini
“Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sheri Fink. Those poor people.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel