Emotional books
Books that move readers, sometimes to tears. The feelings run deep: loss, courage, love and people who keep going. Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove brings one of fiction's best-known friendships to its end, Chanel Miller's Know My Name turns a survivor's experience into a clear, unflinching memoir, and Art Spiegelman's Maus carries the weight of a family's history. Keep something nearby for the last chapters.
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- 1Words of Radiance
9.49.4 / 10 - 2Lonesome Dove
9.19.1 / 10 - 3Maus
9.09.0 / 10 - 4This Inevitable Ruin
9.09.0 / 10 - 5Know My Name
9.09.0 / 10 - 6Just Mercy
8.98.9 / 10 - 7Born a Crime
8.98.9 / 10 - 8One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
8.98.9 / 10 - 9Mistborn: The Final Empire
8.98.9 / 10 - 10The Name of the Wind
8.98.9 / 10 - 11I'm Glad My Mom Died
8.98.9 / 10 - 12Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8.88.8 / 10 - 13Demon Copperhead
8.88.8 / 10 - 14The New Jim Crow
8.88.8 / 10 - 15Flowers for Algernon
8.88.8 / 10 - 16The Fire Next Time
8.88.8 / 10 - 17The Hate U Give
8.88.8 / 10 - 18Becoming
8.88.8 / 10 - 19Say Nothing
8.88.8 / 10 - 20Empire of Pain
8.88.8 / 10 - 21Evicted
8.88.8 / 10 - 22A Clash of Kings
8.78.7 / 10 - 23The Obelisk Gate
8.68.6 / 10 - 24Ghostwater
8.68.6 / 10 - 25Jade War
8.58.5 / 10 - 26Fool's Assassin
8.58.5 / 10 - 27Heir of Fire
8.48.4 / 10 - 28Abaddon's Gate
8.48.4 / 10 - 29Red Rising
8.48.4 / 10 - 30New Spring
8.08.0 / 10