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Coming from Just Kids? Start with Levels of life, Long Goodbye, When Breath Becomes Air. 29 more below, each with why it fits.
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Levels of life
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Comforting, like coming home · it makes you cry, in a good way
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi 2016
It changes how you see things · it makes you cry, in a good way
Grief Observed
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It changes how you see things · it leaves you shaken
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It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
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Helen Macdonald 2006
One to read slowly · melancholic and unhurried
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A small, intimate story · it leaves you shaken
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson 2011
Funny and sad at once · melancholic and unhurried
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion 2005
It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner 2020
A small, intimate story · it makes you cry, in a good way
Eat, pray, love
Elizabeth Gilbert 2001
It makes you think, without a lecture · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
Educated
Tara Westover 2018
You'll want to talk it over with someone · it leaves you shaken
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson 1600
It leaves you shaken · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Don't sleep, there are snakes
Daniel Leonard Everett 2008
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
Touching the Void
Joe Simpson 1988
It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
The secret race
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No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
Mr Wilder and Me
Jonathan Coe 2020
Comforting, like coming home · told in two timelines
Communion
Whitley Strieber 1987
It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer 1996
A farewell that moves you · it's hiding a secret
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot 2019
It leaves you shaken · nobody is entirely good
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau 1854
One to read slowly · it's an essay
White Hunter, Black Heart
Peter Viertel 1953
Not the same, but close: atmospheric and morally grey
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