A good book makes the reader experience the most intense emotions: from infinite happiness to cosmic melancholy. Both are useful shocks after which we realize we are alive.
O awesome.club selected 10 books that leave no one indifferent. Get comfortable and enjoy.
three comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
This work is rightfully considered one of the most penetrating novels of the 20th century. It tells the love story of two very different but equally lost people. War memories and the ghosts of the past haunt them everywhere. Death is present in the narrative, but despite this, the book is filled to the brim with love of life.
The boy in the striped pajamas
John Boyne
A 9-year-old boy meets a strange but good friend who, for some reason, is always hungry, doesn’t invite him into his house, and even lives behind a strange chain-link fence. Children don’t understand what happens in the brutal tearing apart of adults, they just live in it. This story will break anyone’s heart and leave a permanent mark.
My sister lives on a shelf
Annabel Pitcher
In a grieving family, Roger is the only one who doesn’t cry and is sure that one day everything will be fine. Perhaps he will achieve glory across the country and even his sister Rose, who lives on the mantelpiece, will be happy again.
Before I die
jenny downham
Tessa Scott is only 16 years old, but discovers that she has very little time to live, as she has a serious illness. Tessa makes a list of crazy things she needs to do before she dies. A sincere and courageous novel, after which you will want to enjoy every moment of your life as if it were the last.
The impatience of the heart
Stefan Zweig
A book about the desperate love of an invalid girl for an Austrian lieutenant, who is able to respond to her feelings only out of compassion. However, her love force is so great that it doesn’t even need reciprocity. Despite the difficulties, in the girl’s heart lives hope in the miracle that one day she will be able to get up and walk.
The Shadow Thief
Marc Levy
The main character of the novel is a little boy who has an incredible ability to hear shadows and even steal them. He can also help shadows and their owners, changing their fates for the better. Growing up to be a doctor, the hero uses his gift to heal the sick, but unfortunately he is unable to help himself.
Oscar and the Rose Lady
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
A boy named Oscar has cancer. Now, the clinic is his home, and his nurse, Senhora Rosa, is his second mother. When Oscar realizes that his days are numbered, Senhora Rosa offers to play a game: count each day as if it were ten years. Therefore, in just 12 days, he matures, falls in love and even grows old.
A stranger in the nest
Ken Kesey
Between prison or psychiatric clinic, the main character chooses the second option, believing in vain that he would be better there. He declares war on the system and stays true to himself until the end. This is a tough story, but it honestly reflects all the miserable madness and the blurred lines between sanity and insanity.
The book Thief
Markus Zusak
Little Liesel has a difficult fate, she lives in Nazi Germany, where her father is called by the strange word “communist” and suddenly disappears, while her mother gives her brother and her to a foster family. On the way, death takes the brother. At that time she finds a book, reading becomes a pleasure and printed words acquire special powers.
Anne Frank’s diary
Anne Frank
Anne Frank died in a concentration camp when she was 15 years old. The girl kept a diary from 1942 to 1944. In it, she describes life, teenage feelings and dreams about the future: profession, love and family life. This true and painful book is very difficult to read, but sometimes it is important to remember the darkest pages of our history.
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