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- The Ultimate Tear-jerker Reading ListReading list
I love a book that can make me cry. I have a sort of love-fear-awe relationship with this one, though, because it’s a book that can make me properly can’t stop, out of control ugly-cry. Conor already has a monster looming over his life – that of his mother’s illness. Then another shows up, elemental and wild, outside…
- Alison LittlewoodInterview
Lots! I’d include Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – it’s just beautiful. English Passengers by Matthew Kneale is a terrific historical novel. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness certainly passed the ‘books that make me cry’ test. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is always fun. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons has the most…
- Kristi DeMeesterInterview
Before I give my suggestion, I do feel that young people should read whatever they like without the fear of being shamed for what they are reading or told it’s beneath them or too smutty or too silly. But I do think all young people should experience a book that moves them deeply and teaches them something about the…
- Darren ShanInterview
Different books have impacted on me at different times. I’ve already mentioned The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. There are lots of others. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker made the teenage me want to push the envelope of visceral darkness as far as I could. The Land Of Laughs…
- Shavonne WongInterview
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