To anyone who hasn’t read A Man Called Ove yet, this video is seriously your sign. I’m pretty confident I will never feel as passionately about any other book I will ever read in my life. And I’m only 15. There’s something about the characters, story, and writing that resonated so much with me and I don’t even know why. I read it last August and not a day has gone by where I don’t think about it. I genuinely love it, so I strongly recommend giving it a chance if you haven’t💜
One of the most special, most beautifully sad books I’ve ever read. I don’t know if I’ve ever loved a book character so much. I’m 27, so it’s nice to see that younger people enjoy this book just as much!
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the most stunning book I have ever read. I read it almost a year ago and I legitimately think about it every day. And Ocean Vuong is writing the script for the MOVIE and I am so jazzed. I shared it with one of my best friends, and she made her mom read it. Our plan is to see the movie together when it comes out
Omg YES! I have never read writing like that. I was confused on whether to cry about how beautiful the writing was or the content itself 😂 Bought a copy for practically everyone I know after that 😅 I genuinely do not know if it can get better than that book. Ocean Vuong is in a league of his own making.
will forever be grateful to you for introducing me to the stationery shop, it's a book that no matter how much time has passed i find myself thinking about and it's such an emotional journey, it's devastating and so so beautiful 😭💗
i read as long as the lemon trees grow in one afternoon last weekend and SOBBED and then like 2 hours later when I thought it was okay I though about it for a little too long and preceded to cry my eyes out again. also absolutely needed that clockwork princess mention that is also still the ultimate book that left me a heaving mess when I finished yet. I'm pretty sure I just carried the book around with me for weeks afterwards because it left me so empty feeling.
To think that the minute I saw this video and was like, "Eva lavender is going to appear," made me realize how long I've been watching Hannah's videos❤️
@@AClockworkReader there was a time in 2017-18 when I used to see your bookshelf tour again and again. So much so that these books and authors were engraved in my mind
I have read 4 out of 7 of the books u mentioned and i have bawled my eyes out for all of them . Stationery shop was one book which left me feeling like a hollow shell😢
so true lemon trees, truly never cried at a book so much in my LIFE. But i also adore it so much and recommend it to everyone and their dog to read soooo
Clockwork Princess actually broke me. I was full out sobbing on my desk for thirty minutes after finishing the epilogue. And this comes from someone who doesn't cry over books
I read "The stationery shop" because you talked about it in a previous video and yeah, this book left me sobbing in my bedroom. It broke my heart, in a very sad way but also in a beautiful one. Definitely read it if you want to feel a lot 😂 it's worth it
I read My Dark Vanessa last year because of your recommendation. One of the best books I’ve ever read. Such an accurate, unflinching, and compassionate look at the dynamics and effects of grooming. SPOILER ALERT: I also found the end to be quite moving and hopeful. It provided just enough of a glimmer of hope for her healing journey, which made me cry tears of joy. Also, as an animal lover, I loved that getting a dog was helping her ground and stay present instead of dissociating. The weight of when she tells her dog, “He’ll never meet you.”😭
i actually picked up 'The Stationary Shop" because of a previous video of yours, and omg???? that book had me staring at a wall for hours after reading it 😭🤍 one of the best books i've read for the year too !!
Literally discovered your channel a couple of days ago and have just gone through a binge spiral of watching all your videos, so this new upload is enabling an addiction 😭💕
As long as the lemon trees grow is the best book i have ever read. It made me cry relentlessly, it made me laugh, it made me happy, it made me overwhelm, it held me on the edge of my seat. You people should really try this out. P.s. it has a happy ending
I think I've read the stationary shop initially because of you or throneofpages I can't remember but I loved it a lot. I also read as long as the lemon trees grow in January and a day doesn't go by without me thinking about it. they both made me sob. It was so beautiful.
Frederik Backman has made me cry with both A Man Called Ove and my latest fave, Bear Town. I really want to read the sequels but I've read a single line of the third book so now I know it's going to beeak my heart sooo badly
I would never ever ever lend my copy of Clockwork Prince to anyone. Not because I don’t want to but because there are at least 30 pages destroyed from tear stains. The pain never ends with Cassie Clare ✨
omg I read strange and beautiful sorrows back in like 2017(?) because of how often you would mention it and I still think about it ALL THE TIME, still one of my favorite books. I got my mom and sister to read it back then too and we all loved it a lot. I’m also due for a re-read
Hey Hannah! ❤ Also sad books are my favourite. They're just unforgettable to me personally. I'd read a happy romance, or a high fantasy and forget everything except the main plot in a few weeks but books that make me ball my eyes out, every scene will be woven into my heart muscles. I guess i am kind of masochistic, i gravitate towards sad books more often than it's healthy for my mental state but it's also kind of a coping mechanism because i think of it like "well, for a change let me cry for someone else", not a very healthy coping mechanism but it is effective.
Hannah, can you make a video about books that have heartwarming friendships between characters? I'd love to get recommendations from you, to see if I could envy people as much as I envy the Marauders. Always love your videos by the way! (:
I read The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender last year because of you and I DID NOT EXPECT TO LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I DID. There was just something about seeing all those stories and reading about those women that spoke to my soul. Plus it had a refernece to Romania (my home country).
i read my dark vanessa because of you and omg what are feelings anymore. i immediately went and bought a copy and it’s truly one of my favorites even though it’s so dark it feels weird to call it that
I have read the stationery shop and it's so good, everyone has to read it... those people telling the world u love romance, read this, this is what love is ❤
I think ive read Ava Lavander like 5 times in my hs and i agree its unlike anything i have ever read since. Its very melancholy and sad that throughout the book yre always at the edge of tearing up. Its one of my fav and i dont think it will ever escape that place. Its that good
I just finished reading TID last month, and to be really honest never have I ever imagine myself crying over with Clockwork Princess because I guessed some scenes so it didn't make me cry. But oh god the Epilogue, I wailed. And after that it just broke me. I couldn't picked up any book in so long after Clockwork Princess. It's been ages since I cried that hard in a book and I love it when that happens. The pain and happiness it brings. And never thought I would love a story with love triangle in it, because it was my least favorite trope. However, it was well written that I fell in love with it. It became instantly my favorite trilogy. I love the three of them so much. Right now I am reading the Last Hours series, and whenever they were mentioned, I couldn't help but smile 😊 It was the best!
You know I’ve been seeing that series for years on book tube but this comment makes me want to read it. Seeing people talk about the books they love most makes me happy it’s so pure
I hadn’t realized how many books I’ve read because of your recommendations until I clicked on this video and realized I’ve already read most of these through your urging
When I saw the thumbnail and started to watch it, I thought that My Dark Vanessa must be here because it's really very tragic, traumatizing and grinding. It's certainly a difficult read. It really took my lots of strength to finally go through each & every page. Whatever you said about this in your section, it was apt. Don't read for the sake of reading it! No it is not that book. And I'm looking forward to read the rest ones mentioned in this video.
Just finished on earth we're briefly gorgeous.... I... I.... I don't know.... It didn't let me sleep for days... So freaking painful and full of grief... Gut wrenching when you can actually relate to this book
Could you recommend books that center friendship (instead of romance)? Or at least books in which the platonic bonds between characters are really important to the story?
Ava Lavender is one of my favorite books of all time. I did sob at the end. A List of Cages is a book that made me sob the entire time I was reading it. 😭 I enjoyed the Tom Hanks Ove adaptation. 😊
If you cried reading A Man Called Ove you need to pick up his other book Beartown. It’s my favourite book of all time and made me full on sob throughout, the sequels also get sadder.
oh my god, ava lavender is the most stunningly odd & sorrowful book ever. i read it 5 years ago, so it's been a while... i think i'll give it a reread this week, it sounds like exactly what i need right now & i'm so glad you reminded me of it!
I know that you didn't mention this book in this video but I picked up Juniper & Thorn because of you; and it was amazing! So, I just wanted to thank you for introducing me to what is now one of my all time favorite books. 💜💜
you got me thinking about the whole not crying as much at books thing bc i’m totally the same and i think maybe it’s to do with seeing people’s faces? like you can’t actually see the book character’s face like you can the actor’s which gives you that visceral response
Can someone please tell me if A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseni and the Stationary shop by Marjan Kamali and The island of missing trees by Elif Shafak have kinda the same vibes? I’ve only read the first one.
I'm late to the party but I own the same copy of Clockwork Princess and read it once aaaages ago and was surprised to hear you mention it. I dug out my copy and flipped through and then it all came flooding back like a repressed memory and I just sat on the floor and sobbed 😂😭
sad book recommendation!!! (one of my favourite books ever): The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker. It's a Canadian book set in Toronto, Ontario and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The book starts when the main character (an imaginative, special, sad girl who has experienced a lot of cruelty and tragedy) is 8 years old and ends when she's a teenager in the 60s. And the cover is really beautiful with a seahorse on it :)
Flowers for Algernon and The Remains of the Day are the two books that made me cry the most. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (loved it) is the only one from this list I've read, so I'm looking forward to reading the others. When I'm in the mood for something sad, that is. :P
While you were talking about As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, I was afraid that you wouldn't talk about Clockwork Princess but you didn't disappoint! Btw I read it at the same age as you and I think it's the most I've ever cried over a book too lol
I totally agree about My Dark Vanessa. I thought that it was outstanding, and I was surprised too how well written it was. *SPOILERS AHEAD* I cried towards the end when her mother was asking for forgiveness and she said, "So when my mother asks me to forgive her, I say 'Of course I do.' I don't tell her again that she couldn't have stopped it, that it wasn't her fault, and that she didn't deserve it. I swallow those words instead. Maybe somewhere deep in my belly, they'll take root and grow." I'm getting misty just writing it out now... that line just hits on so many levels for me.
My birthday is this month and I have decided to start rereading TID on my birthday because I miss my babies and the fact that you included the book here😭 We are going to have a good time🥲
I didn’t cry while reading my dark Vanessa, but my God, that book messed me up .. I questioned everything about myself, I almost threw up reading it, yet I kept reading..
My Dark Vanessa.... A book that till this day haunts me and I could only read about 50% and DNF...not bc it was bad bit the subject matter was so hard to phathom and so difficult to get through i couldn't do it...When you held it up, i immediately had a response... NO NO NO!!!... That book is the only book thet makes me truly scared/uncomfortable/want to remove my skin... 😭
Could you make a video of a list of books that have beautiful writing in general? I love books with beautiful writing no matter what they are and I need more recs 🤍
i felt soooo many emotions in "my dark vanessa". I rated it a 5 star book for me and i felt conflicted and "weird" by giving it such a high rating. Its so dark and heavy but real and raw. Its written very well and I gained a new perspective
If you want a slightly older book, Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya is amazing. I read it in high school and it has stuck with me for decades. Some people consider it grim, but it feels like a more heartfelt Grapes of Wrath, set in 1950s India.
A standalone book that will likely make everyone cry (or at least very sad) is I Fell in Love With Hope by Lancali. A book on friendship, love, and illnesses. The found family here is just the cutest. Check trigger warnings though please
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness completely RUINED ME! It's YA and pretty short, so I read it in 3 even parts over 3 evenings. I spent the *entire* final third sobbing loudly into my pillow
One of the best most heartbreaking books I have ever read was Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin. This booklet had me sobbing on the floor hyperventilating and I have never seen anyone mention it before. If you do think about reading this book please look into trigger warnings.
I still have to read The clockwork princess and now I'm afraid to pick it up🥲. Also the way I sobbed over the ending of A man called Ove 😭😭that book broke me for a while and I loved it.
I'm getting back into reading so i'll probably take a look at a few of these However since we are on the topic of crying and it's April, maybe you should watch Your Lie in April (the anime series not the movie) if you haven't watched that yet
I'm still not sure if I want to read "My Dark Vanessa"; from everything I've heard it's disturbing in a way that's likely to wreck me. But the others (minus "Clockwork Princess") are on my tbr.
read a thousand splendid suns!!! so many parts of the book gave me the same vibe as the stationery shop even though there wasn't anything particularly common between the two. they're both historical (lit-) fic so you may like it!
I love books that break my heart (I write them too ;) My favorite is What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson. (And, as always, ty for the content warnings)
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Can you please read the book thief?? It is the only book i have ever cried to
To anyone who hasn’t read A Man Called Ove yet, this video is seriously your sign. I’m pretty confident I will never feel as passionately about any other book I will ever read in my life. And I’m only 15. There’s something about the characters, story, and writing that resonated so much with me and I don’t even know why. I read it last August and not a day has gone by where I don’t think about it. I genuinely love it, so I strongly recommend giving it a chance if you haven’t💜
I really thought it wasn’t going to make me cry the entire time and then got to the page about the 🔪 and the tears didn’t stop.
One of the most special, most beautifully sad books I’ve ever read. I don’t know if I’ve ever loved a book character so much. I’m 27, so it’s nice to see that younger people enjoy this book just as much!
I'm also 15 and I loved this book so much😊
I'm currently reading and the more I read, the more I love
I take your sign and I will pick this now
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and The Book Thief really did it for me. I’ve never cried more
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns made me sobbing buckets!
Oh yes!! The Kite Runner left me absolutely wrecked and A Thousand Splendid Suns I loved as well. I really hope Hannah reads them sometime!
Also, yes the Book Thief was excellent!
A lot of afghan are against those books and see it as racist and just extra propaganda for the US occupation
I'm currently reading a thousand splendid suns
The plot twist in As long as lemon tree grows broke me, but I'm so grateful that it ended in a way it did.
I second this
I cried for an entire day after reading it. This book broke me in the most heart-wrenching yet beautiful way possible😭😭
Hannah you absolutely HAVE TO read The Book Thief. It’s one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever read and it is truly sob worthy
i’m pretty sure she’s already read that bc she mentioned it in an older video but ikkkkkkkkkkk it’s wonderful
Oh great I just read Backman and the Book Thief is one of the next books I was going to read. I think I need a lighthearted read in between.
@@Kaffee_auf_ex definitely. I love Backman as well. One of my top authors
my fave
I’m pretty sure this was the first book that ever made me cry. I was reading it in a hotel room at night by flashlight while my family slept WEEPING.
Even years after reading clockwork princess I can just go back and read the epilogue and it’ll do it for me every time ✌🏼. 😭
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the most stunning book I have ever read. I read it almost a year ago and I legitimately think about it every day. And Ocean Vuong is writing the script for the MOVIE and I am so jazzed. I shared it with one of my best friends, and she made her mom read it. Our plan is to see the movie together when it comes out
Omg YES! I have never read writing like that. I was confused on whether to cry about how beautiful the writing was or the content itself 😂 Bought a copy for practically everyone I know after that 😅 I genuinely do not know if it can get better than that book. Ocean Vuong is in a league of his own making.
will forever be grateful to you for introducing me to the stationery shop, it's a book that no matter how much time has passed i find myself thinking about and it's such an emotional journey, it's devastating and so so beautiful 😭💗
i read as long as the lemon trees grow in one afternoon last weekend and SOBBED and then like 2 hours later when I thought it was okay I though about it for a little too long and preceded to cry my eyes out again. also absolutely needed that clockwork princess mention that is also still the ultimate book that left me a heaving mess when I finished yet. I'm pretty sure I just carried the book around with me for weeks afterwards because it left me so empty feeling.
it was so sad and SO GOOD 😭
When I read My Dark Vanessa I thought I hated it, until I was thinking about it weeks later. Totally agree with your description
To think that the minute I saw this video and was like, "Eva lavender is going to appear," made me realize how long I've been watching Hannah's videos❤️
🥲😭🥰
@@AClockworkReader there was a time in 2017-18 when I used to see your bookshelf tour again and again. So much so that these books and authors were engraved in my mind
Yes! I felt so nostalgic right now.
Yes!!! That was my first thought too
@@bookoffholicbookwart5945 same..i marathon 2017-19 Hannah videos so much..and also bookmarked
Not gonna lie crying is my favourite activity so I'M SO EXCITED !!!! 💗💗💗💗
hobbies: crying, sobbing, bawling
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real!!
I have read 4 out of 7 of the books u mentioned and i have bawled my eyes out for all of them . Stationery shop was one book which left me feeling like a hollow shell😢
so true lemon trees, truly never cried at a book so much in my LIFE. But i also adore it so much and recommend it to everyone and their dog to read soooo
Clockwork Princess actually broke me. I was full out sobbing on my desk for thirty minutes after finishing the epilogue. And this comes from someone who doesn't cry over books
I read "The stationery shop" because you talked about it in a previous video and yeah, this book left me sobbing in my bedroom. It broke my heart, in a very sad way but also in a beautiful one. Definitely read it if you want to feel a lot 😂 it's worth it
Dude I read Ava Lavender because of your suggestion way back when, I can't believe I've been here that long!
“I AM NOT THE GOD OF TEARS” i’m crying
I read My Dark Vanessa last year because of your recommendation. One of the best books I’ve ever read. Such an accurate, unflinching, and compassionate look at the dynamics and effects of grooming. SPOILER ALERT: I also found the end to be quite moving and hopeful. It provided just enough of a glimmer of hope for her healing journey, which made me cry tears of joy. Also, as an animal lover, I loved that getting a dog was helping her ground and stay present instead of dissociating. The weight of when she tells her dog, “He’ll never meet you.”😭
i actually picked up 'The Stationary Shop" because of a previous video of yours, and omg???? that book had me staring at a wall for hours after reading it 😭🤍 one of the best books i've read for the year too !!
Literally discovered your channel a couple of days ago and have just gone through a binge spiral of watching all your videos, so this new upload is enabling an addiction 😭💕
No book has made me sick to my stomach like My Dark Vanessa. Yet it’s one of my favourite reads from last year.
I read As Long As the Lemons Tree Grow for one of my courses and everyone in my class was bonding over how it destroyed us 😭 it’s so good!!!
I just bought it but im sooo scared to start reading im syrian living in france btw so idk im excited but like ur scaring meeee
As long as the lemon trees grow is the best book i have ever read. It made me cry relentlessly, it made me laugh, it made me happy, it made me overwhelm, it held me on the edge of my seat. You people should really try this out.
P.s. it has a happy ending
I think I've read the stationary shop initially because of you or throneofpages I can't remember but I loved it a lot. I also read as long as the lemon trees grow in January and a day doesn't go by without me thinking about it. they both made me sob. It was so beautiful.
Frederik Backman has made me cry with both A Man Called Ove and my latest fave, Bear Town. I really want to read the sequels but I've read a single line of the third book so now I know it's going to beeak my heart sooo badly
I would never ever ever lend my copy of Clockwork Prince to anyone. Not because I don’t want to but because there are at least 30 pages destroyed from tear stains. The pain never ends with Cassie Clare ✨
omg I read strange and beautiful sorrows back in like 2017(?) because of how often you would mention it and I still think about it ALL THE TIME, still one of my favorite books. I got my mom and sister to read it back then too and we all loved it a lot. I’m also due for a re-read
Can you do your top happy/sweet books? I've been going through a tough time and I def need something happy to cheer me up
Hey Hannah! ❤
Also sad books are my favourite. They're just unforgettable to me personally. I'd read a happy romance, or a high fantasy and forget everything except the main plot in a few weeks but books that make me ball my eyes out, every scene will be woven into my heart muscles. I guess i am kind of masochistic, i gravitate towards sad books more often than it's healthy for my mental state but it's also kind of a coping mechanism because i think of it like "well, for a change let me cry for someone else", not a very healthy coping mechanism but it is effective.
Gurlll!!! U r me..I am a masochist too💀
Hannah, can you make a video about books that have heartwarming friendships between characters? I'd love to get recommendations from you, to see if I could envy people as much as I envy the Marauders. Always love your videos by the way! (:
I read The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender last year because of you and I DID NOT EXPECT TO LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I DID. There was just something about seeing all those stories and reading about those women that spoke to my soul. Plus it had a refernece to Romania (my home country).
i read my dark vanessa because of you and omg what are feelings anymore. i immediately went and bought a copy and it’s truly one of my favorites even though it’s so dark it feels weird to call it that
I have read the stationery shop and it's so good, everyone has to read it... those people telling the world u love romance, read this, this is what love is ❤
I think ive read Ava Lavander like 5 times in my hs and i agree its unlike anything i have ever read since. Its very melancholy and sad that throughout the book yre always at the edge of tearing up. Its one of my fav and i dont think it will ever escape that place. Its that good
Thanks a lot for making me go back and read the epilogue again. 😭
I just finished reading TID last month, and to be really honest never have I ever imagine myself crying over with Clockwork Princess because I guessed some scenes so it didn't make me cry. But oh god the Epilogue, I wailed. And after that it just broke me. I couldn't picked up any book in so long after Clockwork Princess. It's been ages since I cried that hard in a book and I love it when that happens. The pain and happiness it brings. And never thought I would love a story with love triangle in it, because it was my least favorite trope. However, it was well written that I fell in love with it. It became instantly my favorite trilogy. I love the three of them so much. Right now I am reading the Last Hours series, and whenever they were mentioned, I couldn't help but smile 😊 It was the best!
I didn't cry at all. I definitely enjoyed the trilogy, but it didn't make me super emotional.
You know I’ve been seeing that series for years on book tube but this comment makes me want to read it. Seeing people talk about the books they love most makes me happy it’s so pure
Me knowing what Hannah is going to recommend already but still can't wait to watch the video:))
I hadn’t realized how many books I’ve read because of your recommendations until I clicked on this video and realized I’ve already read most of these through your urging
Man the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavander is such a throwback... ngl still kinda choke up when i think about it 🥲
When I saw the thumbnail and started to watch it, I thought that My Dark Vanessa must be here because it's really very tragic, traumatizing and grinding. It's certainly a difficult read. It really took my lots of strength to finally go through each & every page. Whatever you said about this in your section, it was apt. Don't read for the sake of reading it! No it is not that book. And I'm looking forward to read the rest ones mentioned in this video.
Just finished on earth we're briefly gorgeous.... I... I.... I don't know.... It didn't let me sleep for days... So freaking painful and full of grief... Gut wrenching when you can actually relate to this book
I have so many of these on my tbr! Thanks for the recs!
The strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender was one of the first books I read because you recommended it omg the nostalgia 🥰
I'm so happy to see Ava Lavender included! It's my all time favourite book and more people need to read it ahhhh
Could you recommend books that center friendship (instead of romance)? Or at least books in which the platonic bonds between characters are really important to the story?
Song of achilles destroyed me it really stayed with me for a good while before i could read another book
i have an addiction to sad books at this point but to this DAY i've never sobbed harder than when i read clockwork princess
Ava Lavender is one of my favorite books of all time. I did sob at the end. A List of Cages is a book that made me sob the entire time I was reading it. 😭 I enjoyed the Tom Hanks Ove adaptation. 😊
If you cried reading A Man Called Ove you need to pick up his other book Beartown. It’s my favourite book of all time and made me full on sob throughout, the sequels also get sadder.
oh my god, ava lavender is the most stunningly odd & sorrowful book ever. i read it 5 years ago, so it's been a while... i think i'll give it a reread this week, it sounds like exactly what i need right now & i'm so glad you reminded me of it!
Data Structure & Algorithms in Java 2nd edition made me cry and call for my mommy so bad. 😢😢😢
I was looking for sad books last week actually and came to your page. Thank you for answering my sad girl call!
clockwork princess made me sob like a baby, i love the infernal devices sm :p
I know that you didn't mention this book in this video but I picked up Juniper & Thorn because of you; and it was amazing! So, I just wanted to thank you for introducing me to what is now one of my all time favorite books. 💜💜
you got me thinking about the whole not crying as much at books thing bc i’m totally the same and i think maybe it’s to do with seeing people’s faces? like you can’t actually see the book character’s face like you can the actor’s which gives you that visceral response
i always know i can trust your recs hannah
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So glad you included Ava Lavender, one of the most underrated YA books!!
Can someone please tell me if A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseni and the Stationary shop by Marjan Kamali and The island of missing trees by Elif Shafak have kinda the same vibes? I’ve only read the first one.
I cried to the book The Alice Network-Kate Quinn. (And it’s a really good book)
I read "The Stationary Shop" thanks to you and I SOBBED!!!!! Definitely gonna check out your other recommendations 💙
I'm late to the party but I own the same copy of Clockwork Princess and read it once aaaages ago and was surprised to hear you mention it. I dug out my copy and flipped through and then it all came flooding back like a repressed memory and I just sat on the floor and sobbed 😂😭
HEY HANNAH!! love the regular uploads, i hope youre doing great
Thanks so so much for this lovely video, Hannah. I would love to see more videos about heart-breaking romance books on your next recommendation😊
sad book recommendation!!! (one of my favourite books ever): The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker. It's a Canadian book set in Toronto, Ontario and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The book starts when the main character (an imaginative, special, sad girl who has experienced a lot of cruelty and tragedy) is 8 years old and ends when she's a teenager in the 60s. And the cover is really beautiful with a seahorse on it :)
Flowers for Algernon and The Remains of the Day are the two books that made me cry the most. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (loved it) is the only one from this list I've read, so I'm looking forward to reading the others. When I'm in the mood for something sad, that is. :P
As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow opened my mind on social matters. It's the book I'll surely carved to my heart. Love it very much.
the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender is such a throwback, but I loved it so much 😭
While you were talking about As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, I was afraid that you wouldn't talk about Clockwork Princess but you didn't disappoint! Btw I read it at the same age as you and I think it's the most I've ever cried over a book too lol
a man called Ove 2015 Swedish film and is available with English subs on streaming.
I totally agree about My Dark Vanessa. I thought that it was outstanding, and I was surprised too how well written it was. *SPOILERS AHEAD* I cried towards the end when her mother was asking for forgiveness and she said, "So when my mother asks me to forgive her, I say 'Of course I do.' I don't tell her again that she couldn't have stopped it, that it wasn't her fault, and that she didn't deserve it. I swallow those words instead. Maybe somewhere deep in my belly, they'll take root and grow." I'm getting misty just writing it out now... that line just hits on so many levels for me.
Ava Lavender makes me cry every single time I’ve read it. it never fails.
My birthday is this month and I have decided to start rereading TID on my birthday because I miss my babies and the fact that you included the book here😭
We are going to have a good time🥲
Foster by Claire Keegan is really good. It's only about 80 pages long. Definitely made me cry.
I didn’t cry while reading my dark Vanessa, but my God, that book messed me up .. I questioned everything about myself, I almost threw up reading it, yet I kept reading..
My Dark Vanessa.... A book that till this day haunts me and I could only read about 50% and DNF...not bc it was bad bit the subject matter was so hard to phathom and so difficult to get through i couldn't do it...When you held it up, i immediately had a response... NO NO NO!!!... That book is the only book thet makes me truly scared/uncomfortable/want to remove my skin... 😭
Give you a POV... I read a little life...and meh... My Dark Vanessa 🥺🥺🥺
the epilogue in clockwork princess..... still makes me sob any time i decide to reread it
Could you make a video of a list of books that have beautiful writing in general? I love books with beautiful writing no matter what they are and I need more recs 🤍
As a summertime sadness girly I hoped for a video like this, my tbr grew for sure :')
i felt soooo many emotions in "my dark vanessa". I rated it a 5 star book for me and i felt conflicted and "weird" by giving it such a high rating. Its so dark and heavy but real and raw. Its written very well and I gained a new perspective
If you want a slightly older book, Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya is amazing. I read it in high school and it has stuck with me for decades. Some people consider it grim, but it feels like a more heartfelt Grapes of Wrath, set in 1950s India.
That damn epilogue!!! THAT DAMN EPILOGUE!!!!!😢😢😢😢
The stationery shop will always ALWAYS stay in my heart.
for me ....the kite runner for sure ...never cried on the book so much
A standalone book that will likely make everyone cry (or at least very sad) is
I Fell in Love With Hope by Lancali. A book on friendship, love, and illnesses. The found family here is just the cutest. Check trigger warnings though please
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness completely RUINED ME! It's YA and pretty short, so I read it in 3 even parts over 3 evenings. I spent the *entire* final third sobbing loudly into my pillow
I cried when I read The Astonishing Color of After which was your recommendation btw. Great book though, I love your taste ❤️
Just read that recently upon her recommendation and was sobbing. Had very few reactions like that ever with a book. Loved it so much.
i immediately click onto your videos every time you post, they're so good 😭
i bawled so hard at the stationery shop!!! it was such a beautiful book, and it still makes my heart ache :(
One of the best most heartbreaking books I have ever read was Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin. This booklet had me sobbing on the floor hyperventilating and I have never seen anyone mention it before. If you do think about reading this book please look into trigger warnings.
i finally read ava lavender recently and i was BLOWN AWAY by how good it was
I still have to read The clockwork princess and now I'm afraid to pick it up🥲. Also the way I sobbed over the ending of A man called Ove 😭😭that book broke me for a while and I loved it.
I'm getting back into reading so i'll probably take a look at a few of these
However since we are on the topic of crying and it's April, maybe you should watch Your Lie in April (the anime series not the movie) if you haven't watched that yet
I'm still not sure if I want to read "My Dark Vanessa"; from everything I've heard it's disturbing in a way that's likely to wreck me. But the others (minus "Clockwork Princess") are on my tbr.
me every time I think about Clockwork Princess: "everybody moved on, I, I stayed there..."
read a thousand splendid suns!!! so many parts of the book gave me the same vibe as the stationery shop even though there wasn't anything particularly common between the two. they're both historical (lit-) fic so you may like it!
Strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender is one of Clockwork Reader's staple books, what a throwback eheh
a man called ove looks so amazing, its been my tbr for a long time
I love books that break my heart (I write them too ;) My favorite is What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson. (And, as always, ty for the content warnings)
I’m all ready crying and my cat is passing away soon😭💔