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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
★★★★· Published 2015· 736 pages
A brutal, beautiful, devastating novel about four friends and the trauma one of them carries. Be warned it's a lot — I sobbed. Not for everyone but I couldn't shake it.
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★ 5In Memoriam
Alice Winn
A devastating and gorgeous WWI story about two teenage boys who fall in love in the trenches. It will wreck you. If you finished Shuggie Bain, Demon Copperhead, and/or The Heart’s Invisible Furies, and wanted more, this one’s for you.
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Boarding-school kids whose purpose slowly, quietly reveals itself. Devastating in the calmest possible way.
★ 5Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
A coal merchant in small-town Ireland has to decide whether to look away. Tiny book, enormous moral weight. Cried, naturally.