Books for when you crave a good cry
Curated by @shelfthreads · 9 books
For the readers who want a book to break their heart and stay with them for weeks: love, family and loss, written so tenderly you feel every page.
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Content warningFour friends build their lives in New York over thirty years, while Jude, the one they all love most, carries a childhood he can never speak about.
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All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews
Content warningYoli shuttles between her messy life and a Winnipeg hospital, trying to keep her pianist sister from the death she keeps asking for.
- 3
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kathy looks back on growing up with Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham, a sheltered English boarding school, and slowly reveals what its students were raised for.
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