Hi everyone!! I am currently pregnant and want suggestions from you guys as the books I generally like to read are on the sadder / darker side. I would like to read something positive while not straying too far away from the genre I enjoy. If you could please suggest some books based on the ones that I have read and enjoyed.
Some of these are The book thief, the kite runner, a thousand splendid suns, mornings in Jenin, kafka on the shore, 1Q84, sense of an ending, to kill a mockingbird, little women, Gone with the wind, wuthering heights.
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The Rent Collector
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Ladies’ Paradise
Whatever you do, don’t read Pet Semetary by Stephen King.
Weyward by Emilia ~~Clarke~~ *Hart*. The right mood for spooky season too cause there is some witchcraft/magical realism. The main character is a pregnant woman and it is the story of the power of the women in her family across generations. Not super sad exactly, but lots of resilience, adversity and growth from the MC.
The midnight library! Just finished that one. Also pregnant too:)
Based on your book list you will probably like Lucinda riley. Her Seven Sisters book series is great. The Italian girl is also good amongst most of her others.
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Carrie sotto is back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Where the crawdads sing Delila Owen’s
The island by Victoria hislop
Still life by Sarah Winman
The miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
The queen of bloody everything Joanna Nadin
Hopefully some of these are to your tastes
Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hi you’re allowed to read any book you like while pregnant
Maybe check out books by Anita Desai and A.L. Kennedy. Also Margaret Atwood if you haven’t already but go for earlier, not recent. Maybe Doris Lessing too. Hope you find some books you love. 😺
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee It’s sad but hopeful. A novel about resilience and family
Not what you asked but here’s my list for new moms, great for the countless hours of feeding baby – you’ll want to seriously stock up on the audiobooks especially!!
Audiobook “I’ll show myself out, essays on new motherhood” by jessi Klein – great audiobook
To have and to hold: motherhood, marriage and the modern dilemma – amazing book
How to not hate your husband after kids – jancee Dunn
Dad is fat by Jim gaffigan (audiobook)
The new one by mike birbiglia (audiobook)
All joy and no fun (audiobook)
Nightbitch – very bizarre book but good
How to talk so little kids will listen (for when baby is approaching toddler age)