A Reddit user who had never cried over a book asked for recommendations; commenters named 23 titles, including The Song of Achilles, Prophet Song, Pachinko and The Road. Some said the books left them sobbing or stayed with them for years.
Other recommendations included Into Thin Air, Crying in H Mart, The Broken Earth series, Flowers for Algernon, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Where the Red Fern Grows, A Monster Calls, Snow Falling on Cedars, A Man Called Ove, When Breath Becomes Air, Of Mice and Men, My Sister’s Keeper, The Remains of the Day, All Quiet on the Western Front, Atonement, Anne of Green Gables, The River Is Waiting, The Green Mile and The Nightingale.
Commenters described Prophet Song as a speculative novel about creeping fascism in near-future Ireland, and Into Thin Air as an account of an Everest expedition gone wrong. Snow Falling on Cedars was described as a murder mystery and courtroom drama set in 1950s Washington state; Pachinko follows a Korean family in Japan facing racism, poverty and war.
