12 Books That Will Make You Feel Extreme Emotions

1. Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

This story is such a great tale of true grit, determination, hard work and the idea that all things are possible if you set yourself to the task.

This wonderful adventure story about a boy and his dogs and their heroic devotion to each other will have you in tears, guaranteed.

2. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

(Featured in 10 Books That Will Absolutely Blow Your Mind)

This is a wonderful and highly original novel about a mentally challenged man named Charlie who wanted to be smart.

One day, his wish was granted. A group of scientists selected him for an experimental operation which would raise his intelligence to genius level. Suddenly, Charlie found himself transformed and life changed

3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

(Featured in 6 Most Frightening Novels Ever)

Set in the post-apocalyptic hell of an unending nuclear winter, Cormac McCarthy writes about a nameless man and his young son.

Wandering through a world gone crazy; bleak, cold, dark, where the snow falls down gray. Moving south toward the coast, looking somewhere, anywhere, for life and warmth.

4. Night by Elie Wiesel

(Featured in 8 Non-Fiction Books That Will Blow Your Mind)

Elie Wiesel’s narrative of his own one-year experience spent in a concentration camp has appropriately become a classic in the field.

Read it to find meaning in a seeming meaningless life.

5. The Once And Future King by Terence Hanbury White

The Once And Future King is a children’s fantasy as it should be. A delightful read for both kids and adults.

Author T. H. White manages to mingle the humorous and the sad portions of the King Arthur story successfully. He never talks down to his audience or tries to oversimplify the events.

6. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell To Arms is arguably Hemingway’s best novel.

With much of the material loosely based on his own personal experiences as an ambulance driver during World War I. The story captures in great detail the conflict in all of its horror and barbarism.

7. And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Pari and Abdullah are as close as siblings can be. So when the powers that be tear them apart, both of their lives are irrevocably changed.

Years down the road we meet friends, doctors, chauffeurs, people whose lives are changed through this one event.

What unfolds is a story that crosses oceans, teaching us what it means to love and care.

8. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of the most interesting, powerful books that you will read.

Audrey Niffenegger did a beautiful job taking some of the most complex ideas: time travel, marriage, love, children, friends, religion, death, drugs, childhood, growing, loss, and what it means to be human. And weaving them together poetically and with amazing clarity.

9. The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein

“When a dog is finished living his lifetimes as a dog, his next incarnation will be as a man.”

Not all dogs though. Only those who are ready.

Enzo, a shepherd-poodle-terrier mix, is ready for the adventure and the opportunity.

10. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

(Featured in 8 Most Peculiar Must Read Books Ever Written)

Johnny Truant, a tattoo parlor employee, has come into possession of a trunk full of bizarre scraps of paper once owned by an old blind man, Zampano who is now dead.

The papers comprise of an exploration of a cult film called “The Navidson Record” and its sub-films, documentaries about an ever-expanding house that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. One which consumes the lives of anyone who enters its dark hallways or watches the tapes.

11. The Sea Of Tranquility by Katja Millay

If you enjoy books that are character driven, deal with issues and emotions that are real, but give you hope that even the darkest times can be flooded with light.

Then you will love The Sea of Tranquility.

12. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Told from the point of view of Lou, the down-on-her-luck caretaker of Will, a surly quadriplegic with nothing but disdain for the world around him.

Lou soon discovers the real reason she has been assigned this job. Keeping Will from coming to self harm before a pre-set date, when he will make the decision to take his own life.

Lou uses the time she has left to change his mind, and every step of the way you are hoping along with her that it will work.