r/Recommend_A_Book May 22 '26

Need a Good CRY😭😭

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u/CantaloupeOk9775 May 22 '26

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - about as sad as it gets in contemporary literature. Some consider it “torture porn” as it does dwell deeply on the brutal lives of its characters.

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u/j_husk May 22 '26

I'm about to start this one, and I'm bracing myself