I’m just finishing up Demon Copperhead. Loved it.
My next book I really want my heart just ripped out. I want to be crying and thinking about it while I’m not reading it. Maybe a spouse or child death. And preferably a long read.
Got any suggestions?
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
or
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I ugly cried at one or two parts of Same Kind of Different As Me. Plus it’s a non-fiction. It’s written by two people involved but opposite ends of the spectrum.
If you want to sob and sob and be a little changed forever then A Little Life is it.
Night by Elie Wiesel is probably the most soul crushing book I’ve ever read. There’s one scene I still try hard not to think about and I read the book in high school
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
the prettiest star but carter sickels it’s about a gay man moving back in with his family in rural appalachia after his boyfriend dies of aids during the aids epidemic it’s absolutely heart wrenching but it’s a book i think everyone should read
Mans search for meaning – Viktor Frankl
There’s always Me Before You, Jojo Moyes.
It’s The Book Thief for me
Beach Music by Pat Conroy. Begins with a spouse’s suicide and launches into a beautiful 800 page delight of really richly told stories about the husband and his daughter, and all their various family.
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
No child deaths, but also:
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
The light between Oceans
A Monster Calls
The road
Demon copperhead was so good. I bawled my eyes out after finishing it.
Bastard Out of Carolina
If you liked Demon Copperhead and want to cry tears of frustration, consider reading *Empire of Pain* by PR Keefe, it won non-fiction awards for a reason
Cold Mountain
I’ve heard A Little Life is this way, and super good. I haven’t read it yet though.
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
The Fault In Our Stars
The monster calls Patrick Ness, Everything I never told you Celeste NG, A little life Hanya Yanogihara, and little fires everywhere Celeste NG
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The light between oceans destroyed me
I love coming of age books and that was a stand out, it’s so sharp, heart-wreching and intelligently funny but my tip is All the Light We Cannot See it’s so human, real, raw but at the same time it shows shreds of hope and humanity in the middle of chaos, war and desperation
The Book Thief is still the only book that’s made me cry while reading it
Lullabies for Little Criminals gutted me
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
I just came here to say I also loved Demon Copperhead! I read it this spring and still think about it often.
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dumus will fall into this category.
Shuggie Bain
When Breath Becomes Air — it will break your heart.
I always like to suggest 11/22/63 for a heart break.
My sisters keeper- Jodie picoult. The movie does this book a disservice.
A child called it (a true story)
A HEART THAT WORKS! Forget crying at the end, I started crying during the preface.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuro Ishiguro
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
When Breath Becomes Air
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison. The ending is a killer.