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Books for when you need to cry!
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items This is my most-reached for genre. Other important needs: snack, blanket, face mask, and a candle. Bonus points if its raining!
If you're thinking “I saw the movie, I know the story” - no you don't. No offense to Sally Field. Please read this.
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
The first Kristin Hannah book I read. I love historical fiction and she does such a beautiful job balancing the two concepts.
The Nightingale: A Novel
I made the mistake of reading this when I was two weeks away from the bar exam - but it was the perfect distraction. You'll love Kya. I am usually a fan of Reese's book club picks as it is, but this one is near the top of that list
Where the Crawdads Sing
I know less than I should about the Vietnam War, and even less than that about the women who volunteered as nurses. I love that the characters aren't perfect- they will make decisions that you might not agree with.
The Women: A Novel
I promise this isn't just a list of Reese's Book Club picks. But Wild Dark Shore manages to forewarn of where our world might be headed without being holier-than-thou, while also telling a love story and also making me cry. A trifecta, honestly.
Wild Dark Shore
This book is beautiful. Every moment is described in such gorgeous detail. You will love Patch, our hero. I haven't been so swept up in a book in a long time.
All the Colors of the Dark
Don't let the length of this scare you away. In this book, water is a lifeblood and a curse - but not in a woo-woo way. A drowning in a family every generation has ingrained a fear of water that has kept them isolated. COW follows their family starting with the wedding of the then-12 year old matriarch, and shows how quickly the world changed in just one lieftime.
The Covenant of Water
I suggest reading Writers & Lovers, also by Lily King, first, but it isn't necessary. This book evokes nostalgia for a life lived by someone else, in the best way.
Heart the Lover
Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. That journey t...
Isola
For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi...
Night Road
One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this family saga.
The Bright Years
A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own.
Beyond That, the Sea
A powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them.
The Four Winds
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) histor...
The Book of Lost Names
For anyone who’s ever lost a friend or had one. Get ready to laugh through your tears. Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They’ve shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan’s Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes;...
We All Want Impossible Things
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a...
The Forest of Vanishing Stars