hi everyone! could you please suggest a book that is absolutely devastating and makes you go like WHYYYY 😭 preferably not romance and not young adult, maybe something shounen-like? with nice characters dying, perhaps by taking their own life because they Had To, mind-boggling plot-twists and a bittersweet ending… sorry if this sounds strange, english is not my first language 😔 anyways, i would highly appreciate any suggestions, i just want to bawl my tears out!
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Beartown books by Fredrik Backman, but I think you would need to read all three to check your boxes.
Jo Who died – it’s comedy but with a romantic subplot. I cried like 4 times and the ending was very much bittersweet, it made me cry again but also felt
Hopeful.
Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott (a pseudonym of Agatha Christie, but this isn’t a detective novel)
To Live by Yu Hua
The Kite Runner
Three days of happiness. It’s romance but other than that seems to fit what you want. The ending is depressing af
All the Light we Cannot See and The Nightingale immediately came to mind lol
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
PAINTED BIRD
BETWEEN SHADES OF GREY
SOPHIE’S CHOICE
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, and its sequel Red Seas Under Red Skies. Haven’t read book three in the series yet to know if it will also rip my heart out
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Thousand Splendid Suns. Someone else suggested The Kite Runner by same author, but I think this one is better. Absolutely crushing.
A Monster Calls
Trigger warning for anyone actively in grief — don’t read it. It destroyed me and I wasn’t in the throes of grief at the time.
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult