any suggestions for books that hurt? maybe the song of achilles, they both die at the end, or history is all you left me vibes? doesnt have to be gay nor romantic. just that kind of pain
**The Hearts Invisible Furies** – by John Boyne. Sweeping epic of intersecting stories of love, losses, families sundered, spanning generations and continents, great read and very emotional.
**In Memoriam**- by Alice Winn: love story and face paced drama, from private school through carnage of WWI. A touch of Brideshead Revisited meets the Western Front
**All the Colors of Darkness** – by Chris Whitaker. Child abduction, set against and inspiring sweeping love story
**The Great Believers** – by Rebecca Makkai. Impact of AIDS epidemic on loves, lives across decades
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s a slowburn pain that is bittersweet but also sincere and touching. There’s a film as well, if you’d like to check that out!
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is an amazing biographical story about a terminally ill doctor.
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The last list of Mabel Beaumont, I cried most of the way through
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Young Mungo. I’m not even done with it yet but oh boy the tears I shed
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.
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**The Hearts Invisible Furies** – by John Boyne. Sweeping epic of intersecting stories of love, losses, families sundered, spanning generations and continents, great read and very emotional.
**In Memoriam**- by Alice Winn: love story and face paced drama, from private school through carnage of WWI. A touch of Brideshead Revisited meets the Western Front
**All the Colors of Darkness** – by Chris Whitaker. Child abduction, set against and inspiring sweeping love story
**The Great Believers** – by Rebecca Makkai. Impact of AIDS epidemic on loves, lives across decades
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s a slowburn pain that is bittersweet but also sincere and touching. There’s a film as well, if you’d like to check that out!
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is an amazing biographical story about a terminally ill doctor.
The last list of Mabel Beaumont, I cried most of the way through
Young Mungo. I’m not even done with it yet but oh boy the tears I shed