Novels that break you on a long flight
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Thirty thousand feet up, nowhere to hide, and a book that decides this is the moment to take you apart. Stories with enough emotional weight to undo a stranger in seat 24B.
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The 7 books on this stack
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Khaled Hosseini 2004
Why it's on the stack
It makes you cry, in a good way · war lived from the inside
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him.
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Markus Zusak 1998 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · a book about books
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man…
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Paul Kalanithi 2016
Why it's on the stack
It makes you cry, in a good way · it's a memoir
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One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live.
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Hanya Yanagihara 2008
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you shaken · it tells it with no filter
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A Little Life follows the complex relationships of four college friends in New York City: Willem, an actor; Malcolm, an architect; JB, an artist; and, at the centre of their group, Jude, a lawyer.
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Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It makes you cry, in a good way · within the walls of a school
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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
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Ian McEwan 2001 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
A farewell that moves you · no clean hands here
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
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Rohinton Mistry 1995
Why it's on the stack
It hurts, and then it heals · it makes you laugh
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A State of Internal Emergency has been declared, and in the days of bleakness and hope that follow, four disparate people find their lives becoming unexpectedly and inextricably entwined.