Sometimes you just need to have a good cry session. If watching Voicemails for Isabelle wasn’t enough crying for you, then we have compiled a list of sister stories, sad romances, and some plain old ugly cry books.
P.S. I Hate You by Lauren Connolly
After her brother Josh passes away from cancer, Maggie is tasked with spreading his ashes in eight destinations that he never got to visit. There’s a small snag in the plans when Maggie finds out that Josh wants his best friend Dominic to spread his ashes too. Dominic and Josh were lifelong best friends before Josh’s story ended too soon but Dominic is also the guy that broke Maggie’s heart. However, neither wanting to defy Josh’s dying wish, they set off on the trip together, visiting new places in honor of Josh, and revisiting their complicated past. Grieving with each other has the ability to heal old wounds.
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Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Larissa’s life changed when choosing who to ride home with from a concert years ago. She would come to find out that she met the perfect man. Chris is one of her best friends. They coparent a yorkie, love to taste test bread, and share their favorite books. The problem is that Larissa didn’t go home with Chris. She went home with his best friend who eventually became her boyfriend. Seeing his best friend with the girl of his dreams is killing Chris but making a move would destroy his friendship. How can something so wrong feel like the right move?
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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
After Clementine’s aunt passes away, she forms a plan to keep moving forward in her life–work hard, find a good partner, and chase the moon. Though they may sound silly, Clementine’s aunt always said that you need a big dream to keep going. This plan has worked out for her especially because she’s not allowed anyone to get close enough to her heart to break it. That changes when she finds a stranger in her late aunt’s kitchen. He’s easy on the eyes with a southern drawl and a love for lemon pies. She could fall head over heels for him. The problem is her aunt’s apartment is a wrinkle in time so the handsome stranger exists seven years before Clementine. She knows that falling for him is dooming herself to heart break but she can’t stop her heart from loving.
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Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
A year after the death of their sister Nicky, eldest and recovering addict turned lawyer Avery, former boxer and current bouncer Bonnie, and youngest Paris dwelling model Lucky return to New York. They are trying to stop the sale of their childhood apartment but also must face the grief that comes with losing a sibling, especially the sibling that held them together. They have to confront the secrets they have been keeping from each other and from themselves.
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How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
In the thirteen years since a tragic accident connected their lives, Helen Zhang and Grant Shepherd haven’t seen each other once. Helen has become a best selling author scoring a TV adaptation of one of her novels where she gets to be a part of the screen writing. She’s not expecting Grant to have become a screenwriter, move across the country, and take a job working on Helen’s tv show. They are exactly how the other remembers and find working together to be electrifying. Helen’s parents have never forgiven Grant though. Secrets threaten any possible romance but maybe they can just hold on to each other in the moment.
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A Hue of Blu by Marie-France Leger
Charming Blu Henderson is not as happy as her smile may lead you to believe but she has to keep going. One day, Blue finds herself noticing introverted Jace Boland and she is falling immediately. Luckily so is he. Together they navigate grief, mental health, and past trauma while learning how to make their relationship work.
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The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
Ryan is determined to help his sister even in death so he sends a letter shortly before being killed in action to his best friend, Beckett, saying that he needs to go to Colorado. In Telluride, Ella is raising her twin children alone so Beckett follows through with Ryan’s last wish. He helps Ella in managing the twins and the two develop a bond. What began as a dying wish develops into something much deeper and far more real.
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We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
Kit’s life changed forever when her younger sister, Julie, passed away a few years ago. Now a mother, Kit is struggling to hold it together while navigating the daily routine of caring for her young daughter and going on therapist-advised dates with her husband. The problem is that Kit is still overwhelmed by her grief. When her best friend begs her to come on a weekend getaway in Montana, Kit hopes to find a piece of her old self. Instead, the trip only forces her to confront that her sister is not coming back. Kit must face the heartbreak of her sister’s absence and find a way to heal.
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Into the Blue by Emma Brodie
AJ Graves is stuck working at a video rental store while daydreaming of writing for SNL in the summer of 2000. One day Noah Drew, of the Drew acting family, walks in and AJ’s life changes forever. Their friendship and acting partnership abruptly ends when Noah disappears one day. In New York City, seven years later, AJ is shocked to find herself cast alongside Noah on a TV show. Working together as two characters that grow closer together causes Noah and AJ to grow closer together again. As they confront their past, a well kept and devastating secret threatens to tear the pair apart again.
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This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Soledad Barnes prides herself on planning, fixing, and designing the perfect life for her three daughters in Atlanta. Her world is changed forever when her husband’s devastating secrets are exposed, leading to his arrest and a messy divorce. Left cleaning up her former life, Soledad must keep a roof over her daughters’ heads while trying to build a business from scratch. Complicating everything is Judah Cross, the accountant who uncovered her husband’s crimes, but Soledad can’t keep her eyes off of him. Soledad sets off on a journey of finding herself before she lets go of the past and enters a new love.
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Four college friends move to New York together after fame and success. Their relationships throughout the decades deepen while also being full of addiction, success, and pride. They all love each other but it is Jude, brilliant and scarred by past trauma, that holds the group together. Throughout the years, they learn that their chosen family of each other can save them.
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