A good book has the power to transport you somewhere else entirely, make you think, smile, swoon and laugh. But certain books ...

Read the original article on Purewow. Listen, I love a light and breezy read as much as the next person. But sometimes I want something that really makes me feel. That’s where these 33 sad books ...

Sad girl novels — think Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, or Love and Virtue by Diana Reid — feature introspective narratives told from the perspective of young ...

Lately, it seems like literary fiction has been unable to escape the scourge of “sad girl literature.” Though the genre has deep roots, it garnered widespread popularity during the pandemic ...

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to ...

TODDLER ON THE RUN by Shena Mackay. 105 pages. Simon & Schusfer. $2.95. Author Mackay, a 21-year-old British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old ...

But if someone were to call my book a “sad girl” novel, I’d feel more conflicted. And not just because of the simplification aspect. First off, there’s the basic sexism of it all ...

Even though this author has written over 20 novels, I have not read her books prior to this one, which was written in 2022. It is a delightful, funny and sometimes sad story about marriage ...