What are your favorites in this category? |
Station Eleven
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The Reformatory. The Berry Pickers. Both had me sobbing ugly. |
These were both so good! I’ll add The Great Believers |
The midnight library
A prayer for Owen meany The kite runner The nightingale Help thanks wow The brothers k House of spirits One hundred years of solitude Ishmael |
Never Let Me Go, or Klara and the Sun both by Ishiguro |
Based on above responses, the thread title should be retitled to, Books that makes you feel deeply depressed. |
Wild Dark Shore! |
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson |
The Warmth of Other Suns. I never fully understood the horror and oppression of Jim Crow until I read Isabel Wilkerson's brilliant book. As aWhite man, it was an eye opener, and a reminder we could be headed back to that time. |
Where the crawdads sing |
Slaughterhouse 5. I was 18 when I first read it and it changed everything I thought I knew about books. |
In the nonfiction category: Far from the Tree
Hopefully it makes me a better parent and more empathetic in general. Blew me away. |
The Year of Magical Thinking
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Other Birds
Weyward The first time I read Siddartha I know this much is true Vagina Obscura Any book by Barbara Kingsolver |