Hi! I'm looking for novels which are in the topic of death. Something that's more of a hug-in-a-book. Nor grief themed, but I'm open to those suggestions too.
Songs like "The whole being dead thing" and "Charlie's inferno" might be a lead for what I enjoy.
Also, stuff that makes me bawl my eyes out violently.
For life, in thinking more for like, fragility of life, so again, death and change.
Thank you in advance!!
by milkcolaa
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Coco Mellors’ new book Blue Sisters just came out in the states and it is very good. I highly recommend it. It’s about four sisters, one of whom has died a year prior to the beginning of the novel. The other three sisters are in various parts of the world, dealing with the fallout from this death and also dealing with their own demons. It fits squarely within the “bawling my eyes out” category.
When breath becomes air <3
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Grief is a thing with Feathers by Max Porter.
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.
Under the Whispering Door by T J Klune
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther: A teen fights a terrible brain tumor. Extremely sad but uplifting all at once.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion: A meditation on life and death by one of the greatest American writers after her daughter and husband died suddenly within months of each other.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: Fiction. Go in cold. Trust me.
The Quarry by Iain Banks. A book about waiting to die. Written by a man destined to die very shortly after finishing the book, but having no idea of that when he started it. A painful irony which adds power and poignancy to the novel.
Through a Glass, Darkly by Jostein Gaarder