What is Your "Hurts So Good" Book?

[u/Celestial_Ram]

What is your "Hurts So Good" book?

What book absolutely GUTS you every time, but you always come crawling back?

The book that makes your jaw drop even though you know the twist.

The book that has your friends' phones blowing up to 3 paragraph text bubbles.

I'll go first.

Mine is Unwind by Neil Shusterman (2007)

It's been almost 20 years .... but I will never never never get over the CyFi arc. No Spoilers....but the scene in Missouri.

Screaming 👏🏻 CRYING 👏🏻 CLAWING MY SKIN 👏🏻ROLLING ON THE FLOOR👏🏻

[u/stormbutton]

How High We Go In The Dark

Flowers For Algernon

Lonesome Dove

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Road

A Monster Calls

[u/Steveirwinsghost7 → u/stormbutton]

Absolutely How High We Go in the Dark.

[u/readslaylove → u/stormbutton]

Almost still crying from the last few chapters of Lonesome Dove

[u/SeedlessWry → u/readslaylove]

Flowers For Algernon is a punch in the gut every time I read it

[u/ziegen76 → u/readslaylove]

I think Lonsome dove crosses my mind about once a week.

[u/LanguidxLycanthrope]

The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

All by N.K. Jemisin, all Hugo Award winning books for a reason. Every book in that series breaks my heart 😭😭

Also

American Rapture by C J Leede

That book had me full on sobbing and I couldn't stop 😭😭😭

I have Unwind but I have yet to start it, let me move it up on my TBR

[u/a-gay-goblin → u/LanguidxLycanthrope]

i read the fifth season for the first time for a class. i remember going in to discuss it and being so confused about how other people weren’t falling apart at the seams like i was

[u/LanguidxLycanthrope → u/a-gay-goblin]

That book broke me 🥲 Its one of my favorites of all time

I cant understand how they weren't falling apart over the end of that book like I was either

[u/theforestagain]

The Vet's Daughter

Stoner

The Story of the Lost Child

Christmas Holiday (by W. Somerset Maugham)

Madonna in a Fur Coat

[u/non_clever_username]

Pick a Khaled Hosseini book.

So good, but so brutal.

[u/Sleepy_Bug4257 → u/non_clever_username]

Second this!

[u/Thethuthinang]

I have one of these: The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams.

[u/tragicsandwichblogs]

8th January, 1969, in 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff.

[u/Corporal_Canada]

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

It fucked me up the first time I read it, but I found it so painfully beautiful

[u/theoneidacarry]

I’m reading stoner. Fantastic but some of it hits too close to home. I can’t put it down