Emotional Books
Emotional books are written to make you feel something real -- grief, joy, heartbreak, hope, or all of them at once. These stories prioritize raw emotional honesty and character vulnerability, and they tend to stay with you long after the final chapter.
171 books
Romance
All Your Perfects
Young Adult
All the Bright Places
Young Adult
Along for the Ride
An American Marriage
Young Adult
Anna and the French Kiss
Anything Is Possible
Romance
Beautiful Disaster
Young Adult
Because of Mr. Terupt
Romance
Before We Were Strangers
Romance
Bel Canto
Thriller
By a Thread
Historical Fiction
Commonwealth
Literary Fiction
Conversations with Friends
Literary Fiction
Dept. of Speculation
Romance
Eleanor & Park
Romance
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Romance
Everything for You
Horror
Expiration Dates
Romance
Fifty Shades of Grey
Young Adult
Firefly Lane
Five Feet Apart
Foster
Young Adult
Freak the Mighty
Young Adult
Girl in Pieces
Romance
Gravity
Heart Bones
Romance
Hopeless
Young Adult
How to Make Friends with the Dark
Romance
It Ends with Us
Literary Fiction
Like Water for Chocolate
Literary Fiction
Little Women
Love and Other Words
Fantasy
Maybe Someday
Fantasy
Me Before You
Literary Fiction
Never Let Me Go
Contemporary Fiction
Normal People
Literary Fiction
Norwegian Wood
Romance
November 9
Literary Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Young Adult
Rain Reign
Non-Fiction
Ransom
Literary Fiction
Red at the Bone
Refuge
Romance
Regretting You
Romance
Release Me
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Contemporary Fiction
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Romance
Reminders of Him
Non-Fiction
Replay
Romance
Run Posy Run
Romance
Run Posy Run
Literary Fiction
Salvage the Bones
Non-Fiction
Sarah's Key
Historical Fiction
Schindler's List
Fantasy
Seven Days in June
Literary Fiction
Shuggie Bain
Slow Dance
Small Things Like These
Somewhere in Time
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Memoir
Spare
Young Adult
Stargirl
Literary Fiction
Stay with Me
Contemporary Fiction
Stoner
Non-Fiction
Stories of Your Life and Others
Sula
Contemporary Fiction
Sula
Romance
Summer Island
Contemporary Fiction
Summer Sisters
Literary Fiction
Tar Baby
Romance
Tell Me Lies
Ten Tiny Breaths
Literary Fiction
Tenth of December
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Literary Fiction
That Kind of Mother
Young Adult
That Was Then, This Is Now
The 5 Love Languages
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Historical Fiction
The Age of Innocence
Literary Fiction
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Literary Fiction
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Aviator's Wife
Literary Fiction
The Bluest Eye
Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
Historical Fiction
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Book of Lost Names
Young Adult
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Romance
The Bride Test
Literary Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Literary Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov
Romance
The Castle
Romance
The Choice
Literary Fiction
The Color Purple
Non-Fiction
The Corrections
Literary Fiction
The Covenant of Water
The Dark Forest
Literary Fiction
The Days of Abandonment
The Dead Romantics
Literary Fiction
The Death of Vivek Oji
Dystopian
The Dog Stars
The Dollmaker
Literary Fiction
The Dutch House
The Ex Vows
Fantasy
The Farm
Contemporary Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars
Non-Fiction
The Fire Next Time
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Flamethrowers
Romance
The Flatshare
Romance
The Flatshare
Young Adult
The Fortress of Solitude
Comedy
The Fortunes
Non-Fiction
The Four Winds
Romance
The Friend Zone
Historical Fiction
The Gamble
Non-Fiction
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Literary Fiction
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Historical Fiction
The Giver of Stars
Literary Fiction
The God of Small Things
Literary Fiction
The Goldfinch
Non-Fiction
The Good Earth
Historical Fiction
The Grapes of Wrath
Literary Fiction
The Great Believers
Literary Fiction
The Great Believers
Fantasy
The Great Gatsby
Literary Fiction
The Guest
Literary Fiction
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Literary Fiction
The Heart Principle
Literary Fiction
The Help
Contemporary Fiction
The Hotel Nantucket
Fantasy
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Romance
The House of Mirth
Literary Fiction
The House of the Spirits
Literary Fiction
The House on Mango Street
Thriller
The Identicals
Fantasy
The Immortalists
Non-Fiction
The Interestings
Literary Fiction
The Invisible Man
Non-Fiction
The Island of Sea Women
The Italian
Non-Fiction
The Joke
Literary Fiction
The Joy Luck Club
Romance
The Kiss Quotient
Non-Fiction
The Kitchen God's Wife
Literary Fiction
The Kite Runner
Historical Fiction
The Known World
Fantasy
The Language of Flowers
Romance
The Last Bookshop in London
The Light Between Oceans
The Light of the World
Romance
The Love of My Life
The Lowland
Non-Fiction
The Mothers
Science Fiction
The Namesake
Historical Fiction
The Nightingale
Romance
The Notebook
Literary Fiction
The Outsiders
The Oysterville Sewing Circle
Non-Fiction
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Contemporary Fiction
The Paper Palace
Historical Fiction
The Paris Wife
Literary Fiction
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Young Adult
The Poet X
Young Adult
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Contemporary Fiction
The Wedding People
Romance
Ugly Love
Young Adult
Walk Two Moons
Young Adult
We Were Liars
Young Adult