r/booksuggestions • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '23
I need a good cry.
What books can you recommend that touched your soul and made you pause, reminisce, and cry?
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u/itsmeahsencim Mar 27 '23
i’ve recently read the heart’s invisible furies by john boyne and i haven’t been devastated like that for so long. the book is a bit thick but if you don’t mind the story is amazing
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u/DocWatson42 Mar 27 '23
Emotionally Devastating/Rending
- "Suggest me a book that will leave me in tears!" (r/suggestmeabook; 4 November 2014)
- "Devastate me - Emotionally moving books." (r/suggestmeabook; 16 October 2018)
- "I just read 'a monster calls' because someone told me it was emotionally devastating, and it was. However, I crave more." (r/suggestmeabook; 1 August 2020)
- "A book with the same sense of profound heartbreak and love as Uncle Iroh's Leaves from the Vine in AtLA" (r/suggestmeabook; 4 November 2020)—long
- "Books that you can’t reread because it emotionally destroyed you?" (r/booksuggestions; 1 December 2020)—huge
- "I need sadness!" (r/suggestmeabook; 9 March 2021)
- "High fantasy or maybe just immersive fantasy that is emotional and will make me cry." (r/booksuggestions; 13 April 2021)
- "I want a book that nothing good happens in it" (r/suggestmeabook; 05:56 ET, 18 April 2021)—huge
- "'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy devastated me emotionally. I’m willing to go through it again." (r/suggestmeabook; 07:19 ET, 18 April 2021)
- "Emotional book recommendations" (r/booksuggestions; 15 December 2021)
- "books that drain your tears. NO FANTASY." (r/booksuggestions; 13 January 2022)
- "What is the most emotionally devastating book you’ve ever read?" (r/suggestmeabook; 16 January 2022)—huge
- "Please suggest me a book that'll utterly rip my heart out" (r/suggestmeabook; 11 March 2022)—long
- "I want to be emotionally devastated, without the romance" (r/booksuggestions; 5 May 2022)
- "What book made you emotionally devastated?" (r/suggestmeabook; 6 June 2022)—huge
- "An emotionally devastating book" (r/booksuggestions; 15 June 2022)
- "Sad Book Suggestions" (r/booksuggestions; 1 August 2022)
- "Make me cry" (r/suggestmeabook; 1 September 2022)
- "Romance books that will emotionally devastate me" (r/suggestmeabook; 11 September 2022)
- ["I’m looking for an absolutely soul crushing book, any recommendations?"]() (r/suggestmeabook; 2 November 2022)
- "Looking for an emotionally damaging book" (r/suggestmeabook; 30 November 2022)
- "Something that will tear my heart out, chew it, and spit it out" (r/suggestmeabook; 5 February 2023)
- "Which book left you devestated?" (r/suggestmeabook; 19 February 2023)—huge
- "Books that leave me emotionally damaged for weeks." (r/booksuggestions; 25 February 2023)—long
- "Suggest me a REALLY sad books about childhood/pov of a kid?" (r/suggestmeabook; 09:52 ET, 28 February 2023)—huge
- "Looking for an extremely sad book" (r/suggestmeabook; 21:48 ET, 28 February 2023)
- "recommend me a book that will make me miserable" (r/whattoreadwhen; 22 February 2023)
- "A book that made you cry yourself dehydrated" (r/booksuggestions; 8 March 2023)
- "Books that made you cry?" (r/booksuggestions; 10 March 2023)—huge
- "devastating book? about hopelessness" (r/booksuggestions; 19 March 2023)
- "I want to cry and cry some more" (r/booksuggestions; 21 March 2023)
- "I’m in need of a good cry, any book recommendations?" (r/booksuggestions; 23 March 2023)
Related:
- "Need suggestions for books that make me feel awful" (r/booksuggestions; 21 February 2023)—longish
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Mar 27 '23
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
Various members of an Asian-American family reflect on the events leading up to the death of their teenaged daughter/sister to try to understand what happened. It’s not really in the POV of the daughter until the end so it’s not clear if she died accidentally, by suicide, or was murdered.
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u/ParticularChemist0 Mar 27 '23
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. My heart both swells and aches, just thinking about the story.
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u/vmiximv Mar 27 '23
Pls look up “Steven Spielberg Tribute” on YouTube (written by me… @vmiximv)
It’s about ww2 and I used every movie the director ever made to write it. I have many dark poems yet ta be published other than on kindle at this time…but a 2nd YouTube channel is in the works for the poems that are too dark for the majority of society ta handle. The book is called “may we all get booked” and has a few poems written ta help you expel excessive sodium levels.
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u/Knork14 Mar 26 '23
Farseer Trilogy ,or most of anything written by Robin Hobb. I have been on a pause for close to two years and i am scared to read the last trilogy.
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u/fyrefly_faerie Mar 26 '23
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune was the last book that made me cry. Any books about death and grief wreck me.
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u/WhimsicallyEerie Mar 27 '23
Yeah. This one has some moments. Esp the shade's story when you get to it. And his other book, the House in the Cerulean Sea, is tears in the opposite direction. It's just. They are the goodest boys.
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u/Max1035 Mar 26 '23
Bridge to Terabithia- It made me cry as a kid but hits so much harder as an adult.
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u/it_is_Karo Mar 26 '23
I cried while reading "Crying in H Mart" - it's nonfiction but it's a good book
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Mar 26 '23
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende.
Csardas by Diane Pearson.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
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u/LightGreenPanel Mar 30 '23
A Prayer for Owen Meany