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hermetic

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Wed Mar 20, 2024, 02:36 PM Mar 2024

The Most Emotionally-Charged Books Ever [View all]

A well-told story can make you feel so many things — sadness or joy, frustration or delight, anxiety or calmness. The BuzzFeed Community weighed in on the most emotionally charged books they've read.
I've read a few of these and will likely read quite a few more now. Not all of these are fiction. At the link you'll find a little bit about each one.
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Green Mile by Stephen King

In Love by Amy Bloom

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/most-emotionally-charged-books?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

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