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Do you want to suffer? Then you’ve come to the right place. Inspired by MC’s (@cloudy_readss ) posts (check her account to see her amazing recs!!), I decided to compile a list of books that destroyed me emotionally. Enjoy?🥲🫣💗

Full list of books.
First slide:
The emperor of gladness by Ocean Vuong
The living realm by Jordan Tannahill *
70.000 by Lenna Jawdat *
Season of migration to the north by Tayeb Salih
L’amore assaje (in english: so people know it’s me) by Francesca Maria Benvenuto
Madonna in a fur coat by Sabahattin Ali
The white book by Han Kang
Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani
The shadow king by Maaza Mengiste

Second slide:
Nervous conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere
A private man by Stephanie Sy-quia *
My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante
Come home to my heart by Riley Redgate *
Minor detail by Adania Shibli
The bluest eye by Toni Morrison
Il latte è buono by Garane Garane (never translated and now out-of-print, a little gem for anyone who can read italian)
Family meal by Bryan Washington

Have you read any of these?💚🌤

* = I received an arc from the publisher. All opinions are my own.

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