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Readers: Tell Me About A Book You Read That Made You Incredibly Emotional

Help spruce up our reading lists.

If you love to read, you know that books can be seriously powerful. A great book can make you feel all sorts of emotions.

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So I want to know: What's a book — fiction or non-fiction — that had a significant emotional effect on you?

Personally, after finishing the last page, I couldn't stop thinking about We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter, a book based on the true story of four siblings torn apart during World War II. I'm eagerly awaiting the Hulu series to see if it can possibly compare.

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Maybe you found yourself laughing and then sobbing throughout most chapters of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove.

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Or perhaps, after finishing Dolly Alderton's Good Material, you finally felt like you were ready to move on from a recent breakup that was holding you back.