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May 22, 2017

Read It & Weep: Tearjerker Books

Read It & Weep: Tearjerker Books

By: Jennifer Harmon

Need to get in touch with your emotions? These books will give you all the feels.

  • Albom, Mitch – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  • Brunt, Carol Rifka – Tell the Wolves I’m Home
  • Cameron, W. Bruce – A Dog’s Purpose
  • Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
  • Doerr, Anthony – All the Light We Cannot See
  • Fowler, Karen Joy – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
  • Gaines, Ernest – A Lesson Before Dying
  • Hannah, Kristin – Firefly Lane
  • Hart, Tom – Rosalie Lightning
  • Hosseini, Khalid – A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Irving, John – A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go
  • Lahiri, Jhumpa – The Interpreter of Maladies
  • Mathis, Ayana – The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
  • McEwan, Ian – Atonement
  • Miller, Madeline – The Song of Achilles
  • Morrison, Toni – Beloved
  • Ness, Patrick – A Monster Calls
  • Nicholls, David – One Day
  • Niffenegger, Audrey – The Time Traveler’s Wife
  • Patterson, James – Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
  • Picoult, Jodi – My Sister’s Keeper
  • Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
  • Ryan, Tom – Will’s Red Coat
  • Stein, Garth – The Art of Racing in the Rain
  • Waller, Robert James – The Bridges of Madison County
  • Yanagihara, Hanya – A Little Life
  • Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief