Hey! Can you recommend any novels that are beautiful, life-affirming and perhaps life-altering? I know that's a big ask. They can be sad and depressing but would still love to read something well-written and dramatic with at least a glimpse of hope and love. #BookSky 💙📚
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Beautiful ✅ Life-affirming ✅ Life-altering ✅ Sad and depressing ✅ Well-written ✅
*More* than just a glimpse of hope and love ✅✅
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
Not long, and not a novel, but four long stories that are linked: Ursula Le Guin’s Four Ways to Forgiveness.
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagohara
Leah Mercer
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Road-Perdition-Jr-Stone/dp/1105524132/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JST40VA4PAA7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4Z_cMg5H5zi8gRC79pR6rg.11T0Qxa_jsDRDvhQv_qdlq_q6mts_FHijGrBZ5m1tbs&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+long+road+from+perdition+jr+stone&qid=1732236770&sprefix=%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1
it’ll break you but it’s so good
Maybe try The Left Hand of Darkness, or Lincoln in the Bardo, or Everything is Illuminated. All are weird and sad and beautiful. Definitely life-altering in my case, and affirming
"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
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Anthony Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time."
Asimov's "Foundation" series.
"To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
The Dutch House also by Pachett
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
My Antonia by Willa Cather
One True Thing by. Quindlen
Clear by Davies