I’m excited to start a new recommendation series on my blog! This series of book recommendations goes beyond recommending a genre, but recommending a theme, feeling, mood, trope, etc. If you are interested in a specific genre and more, you can check out this page of my recommendations.
But, If you are ever in the mood for a good cry and reading a book that really tugs on your heart strings, check out…
Leo (Preston Brothers #3) by Jay McLean
A coming of age story from from two individuals who are a struggling to find where they belong, but learn they might just belong together. When you are reading, just when you think everything is starting to come together, another wrench is thrown into the mix. Will secrets and circumstance tear them apart or can they prevail?
Trigger warnings include eating disorders.
When the Time is Right by M. Mabie
Can these best friends survive their feelings for each other. Both Hudson and Alexis have dealt with more than their fair of hardships in life and just when you think everything is meant to be, timing proves to not be on their side. Can they persevere, or was it just not meant to be?
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider by Ishmael Beah
The true story is Ishmael, a young boy trying to survive unimaginable violence and civil war in Rwanda. Through the eyes of a 12 year old, forced to become a boy solider and lose his innocence and gentle heart to murder, guns, drugs, and more. Read his story and how he made it out of hell and created a life for himself.
Trigger Warnings include violence, murder, rape, drugs.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Liesel is a young girl living in Nazi Germany during World War II. After watching her brother die and being sent to live with her foster family, she begins her love affair with books, especially those forbidden by the Reich. Told by a unique narrator that you never expect; Liesel tries to survive these dangerous time.
Trigger warnings include death.
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
A family is not complete without a dog. Read the true tales of Marley, a family’s yellow lab who was mischief in dog form; eating drywall, stealing undies, and crashing into everyone’s life. Laugh and cry both with and at Marley’s shenanigans.
Thanks for reading! Do you guys have any books that really got your water works going?
Stay tuned for more of this series coming soon!
The Travelling Reader 
The book thief broke meðŸ˜
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you know when you finish a book and you just have to stare at a wall to process everything for a bit? That was me after the book thief lol
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Marley and Me hurts so much! So does The Book Thief 💔
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I read Marley and Me in high school and I remember it was one of the first books I remember crying in
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Oh my I can never look at The Book Thief again without my heart trembling for that was hands down one of the most emotional books ever!! 🥺 Thank you for the rest of the recs! ✨
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Same, I am not sure what I expected going into the Book Thief, but being emotionally wrecked was not it lol. and you’re welcome! Hope you like them!
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Lols I loved reading everyone’s weird habits
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