Kite Runner, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Notebook, Me Before You, All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Firefly Lane, The Last Lecture, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, Calling Me Home, and The Kitchen House. I don’t often give 5 stars on Goodreads, but to me these all met the criteria. Optimistic I will be adding The Night Circus to this list soon.
@Kara I’ll check them out. I read a couple of her first novels and they weren’t as good. I liked Great Alone I just didn’t feel it had the depth that Th Nightingale and Firefly Lane did. She’s amazing
Yeah one of the first books she read I couldn’t finish. She definitely got a lot better you can see her growth from her first books to her more recent ones.
? Does this do what it says? Or is the title a clever representative of something else? ….. although what that something else could be ….. I just don’t know.
@Lauren Agreed, I am not the same person I was before reading that book. I feel similarly about Seduction of Silence. A very different book but incredibly moving and beautifully written.
The Night Road by Kristin Hannah. I just finished reading it the other day and last night I found out my teen was riding in a car with someone that supposedly only drank half a beer and I am making her read that book in hopes it teaches her something. Heart breaking!
Me before you and firefly lane
@Maria I’ve read me before you but not firefly lane – I’ll add it to my list ?
Firefly Lane had me crying for hours afterwards. I loved that book so much <3
@Suzann did u know there’s a sequel ?
@Maria YES! Loved that too. Kristin Hannah sold me after that first read. I have read almost everyone of her books since then.
Kristin Hannah is my fave !
Darwin’s radio by Greg Bear
Wish you were here!
@Heather who is this by? ?
@Lauren It’s such an amazing book!!! It had me in happy/sad tears.
@Heather thanks! Adding to my list now
@Lauren Let me know what you think if you read it!
The Lovely Bones
@Kerry I’ve been meaning to read this for a while! Thank you ?
@Kimberley here’s another thread ???♀️
@Jordan haha! Oh man! ???
just finished this one and you can’t fail to be moved by end
I read this years ago, very sad.
@Rosemary
I didn’t know about it until few months ago
That book truly influenced me as a young teenager. Anytime drugs were on offer, I thought of that book and went another direction.
The Kite Runner, The Dovekeepers, The Nightingale, Ove, the Art of Racing in the Rain
adding the Dovekeepers… agreeing on all the others..
Speak
All books really move me..
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn ❤️
Ugh so many! I should start a list, but most of the books I have loved make me sad or happy cry!?♀️
I just finished The Nightengale and wow did it move me!
A prayer for Owen Meany
Does it get better? I rarely don’t finish a book but that and Ove I stopped after 50 pages….I just couldn’t get into the style of writing.
@Suzann best book I’ve ever read. In fact only book I’ve re read three times
@Suzann cry each time I read it
@Rosalind Maybe I will try again.
So many, but Schindler’s list comes to mind
Waiting for Morning by Karen Kingsbury.
I could relate to so much in the book. . .
I have yet to read the other books that follow.
Eat. Prey. Love.
The alchemist
It’s Not Suppose to Be This Way, Lysa Tyrkuerst
Night by Elie Wiesel
The notebook
Hyena and Hummingbird, both by Jude Angelini… very sad personal recount… couldn’t put them down, read easy like you are listening to a friend.
A Place Called Winter
The hate u give
@Jammi loved this book!
Emma and Me
the Final solution is pretty harrowing
Song of Achilles. And by ‘moved”, I mean DEVASTATED!
Thought of 2 more, The Road and Jonathon Livingston Seagull.
@Jennifer The Road…definitely
A Fine Balance, The Kite Runner and The Secret History.
Kite Runner, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Notebook, Me Before You, All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Firefly Lane, The Last Lecture, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, Calling Me Home, and The Kitchen House. I don’t often give 5 stars on Goodreads, but to me these all met the criteria. Optimistic I will be adding The Night Circus to this list soon.
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Nightingale, Firefly Lane, The Art of Racing in the Rain, A Man called Ove!
Have you read the great alone? That one by Kristin Hannah was my favorite by her
@Kara yeah but I liked the other two better!
Ahh. Have you read an you her other books? Magic hour, night road, and home front we’re really good as well!
@Kara I’ll check them out. I read a couple of her first novels and they weren’t as good. I liked Great Alone I just didn’t feel it had the depth that Th Nightingale and Firefly Lane did. She’s amazing
Yeah one of the first books she read I couldn’t finish. She definitely got a lot better you can see her growth from her first books to her more recent ones.
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Before we were yours
The great alone by Kristin Hannah…. Pretty much all of her books have but that one really tugged at my heart strings
Colleen Hoover’s Slammed series Amazing
The Orphan Train
The Great Alone
My favorite book!
The greening of America by charles reich
The Day We Met Roxie Cooper
After you’d gone Maggie o Farrell
Following
A Little Life. The Book Thief. Home Front.
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru
Kite Runner, House of Sand and Fog
@Katherine I loved house of sand and fog… I raved about it for ages after reading it
Prince Ombra
The ultimate gift by Jim Stovall
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate and ofcourse The Great Alone and THe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. The Green Mile by Stephen King. Xxx
The Five People you Meet In Heaven
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Tuesdays with Morrie
@Kim great Book?Love all Mitch Albom’s Book, I have them all x
Yes I love anything by Mitch Albom! I also cry when I read any of his books!
@Kimberly me too ?
Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
This one moved me ??
? Does this do what it says? Or is the title a clever representative of something else? ….. although what that something else could be ….. I just don’t know.
Firefly Lane and Fly Away by Kristin Hannah ??
The Promise
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07KG7ZXPN/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
A Lesson Before Dying!!!!
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Angry Tide. (Part of Winston Graham’s Poldark series)
The girls by Lori lansens. Made me laugh, cry and I didn’t want it to end.
Bright Side by Kim Holden, The Promise by Melody Grace, Of Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
@Mariah was that the one you gave me?
No, you have Cryptonomicon
Radium Girls
Diary of Anne Frank
The Nightingale ,
Remember me , Lesley pearse
@Laura wait…. was remember me a book ???
Sarah’s Key.
The Book Thief
What Remains True
The Light Between Oceans
Breath Eyes Memory
All The Light We Cannot See….
East of eden
Seduction of Silence and A Little Life.
@Jana I’ll never forget little life , so harrowing but one of my favourite books
@Lauren Agreed, I am not the same person I was before reading that book. I feel similarly about Seduction of Silence. A very different book but incredibly moving and beautifully written.
A little life
The five people you meet in heaven. The boy in the striped pyjamas. Wuthering Heights.
His Bright Light by Danielle Steel. A true story about her son who had bipolar disorder.
Go ask Alice
The art of racing in the rain
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Broke my heart but made me stronger in support of eliminating death penalty. A wonderful book.
@Natasha I have heard so many good things about this book. I think I should read it soon.
WOW! I just looked this up on goodreads and it has a whopping 4.62 rating.
The Art of Racing in the Rain and Gary Sinise’s new book on Gratitude, from Self to Service. <3
@Earleen the art if racing in the rain is beautiful ? I love how its the dogs perspective
Froggies little brother
The glass castle and Educated
The Great Alone, the house in the sky and The End of Your Life Book Club
The Secret Garden
The poisonwood bible
A Marriage of Opposites
V for Vendetta
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Night Road by Kristin Hannah. I just finished reading it the other day and last night I found out my teen was riding in a car with someone that supposedly only drank half a beer and I am making her read that book in hopes it teaches her something. Heart breaking!
Watership Down, The Plague Dogs and Schindler’s Ark.
Holding up the universe