Fictional stories to read for a good cry! NOTE: tw on some of these
created by wormhole
last updated June, 2026
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
The Things a Brother Knows
Dana Reinhardt
We Are All So Good at Smiling
Amber McBride
Yolk
Mary H.K. Choi
There There
Tommy Orange
Are You Listening?
Tillie Walden
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Looking for Alaska
John Green
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)
Adam Silvera
The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
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