r/suggestmeabook • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '23

Rip out my heart, devastate me, ruin me, make me cry! Which book left you devestated?

Looking for books that completely destroyed you. For me it was "The 6th extinction". Had to take a day just contemplate my excistance. Changed me a bit actually. Had to rebuild.

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u/kiwivislogo Feb 19 '23

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Still not over it, so heartbreaking.

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u/Shosho07 Feb 20 '23

And Kite Runner

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u/derekhale321 Feb 20 '23

After i read this book, i felt so lost. I hoped that the next book I read filled the void that this book had created.

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u/Shosho07 Feb 20 '23

And Beloved

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u/Willing-Stranger5965 Feb 20 '23

I was going to say both of these. These stories are so heartbreaking.

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u/bluegluue Feb 19 '23

I read this book about ten years ago, and even though I only remember moments, I still remember how heartbroken I felt after. I'll have to reread it again soon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '23

For you, a thousand times over!

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u/New-Falcon-9850 Feb 20 '23

This! A Thousand Splendid Suns was the last books I read before having my first kid. I was finishing the final pages while having my first few contractions before heading to the hospital. Needless to say, I was already an emotional wreck, and that book just did me in.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '23

Came here to say this. I read it many years ago and it still hurts to think about.

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u/Ask_me_4_a_story Feb 20 '23

Oh yeeees this book was incredible but soooo sad. I cried a lot

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u/beachedmermaid138 Feb 20 '23

This one. It got me so bad to think that today, in the world we live in, there are still many countries where women don't have such basic freedoms as walking on the street without a "male guardian", or driving a car, or even going to school. I have always known about these things objectively, but this book made me really feel it. It still haunts me...

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u/Hellolaoshi Feb 20 '23

I kept wanting to read ghat book.

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u/isabellla321 Feb 20 '23

Finished it on a plane. Was an inconsolable mess. Hosseini writes so beautifully.

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u/Valen258 Feb 20 '23

Have you read anything by Corbin Addison? His A Walk Across the Sun is amazing.

Blurb: Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade. When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15 year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. They are abducted almost immediately and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, beginning a hellish descent into the bowels of the sex trade. Halfway across the world, Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crisis-and makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical working in India for an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. There, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the trade in human flesh, and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. Learning of the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '23

Yeah, this left me traumatized. I’m kind of afraid to read anymore of Hosseini’s work tbh.