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japn

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i am looking for some books to read. I would like them to be very deeply emotional and gripping, something that pulls one in and changes everything, something astoundingly moving. this is all i would like: an amazingly moving book.
 
Not an easy object, because it's subjective, but I would like to offer a few.

"Fall On Your Knees" by Ann-Marie MacDonald, "Martin Sloane" by Michael Redhill, and "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan.
 
Have you ever heard of Jodie Picoult? Alot of her books are amazing. I've read just about everyone so far and I cried in more than half of them.
 
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i am looking for some books to read. I would like them to be very deeply emotional and gripping, something that pulls one in and changes everything, something astoundingly moving. this is all i would like: an amazingly moving book.

i would also like these books to be very sophisticate and, not moving in the way that makes one cry nessecarily (though if it did that would be a plus), but in a way that changes one (while also causing intense emotion).
 
put simply

basically, all i want is to know the most emotional, gripping, moving, and life-changing novel you guys have ever read (that is in some way sophisticate).
 
In addition to the books I already suggested, you might also investigate:

The Redemption of Elsdon Bird by Noel Virtue

Blanket Boy's Moon-Peter Lanham

A Fine Balance -Rohinton Mistry

Shipwrecks- Akira Yoshimura

The Rice Mother- Rani Manicka

Broken Verses- Kamilla Shamsie

Broken April-Ismail Kadare

Foucault’s Pendulum-Umberto Eco

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana-Umberto Eco

The Half Brother- Lars Saabye Christensen

The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Death And The Penguin- Andrey Kurkov

In the Time of the Butterflies-Julia Alvarez

Like Water For Chocolate- Laura Esquivel

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories- Horacio Quiroga
(Not a novel, as you requested, but a collection of memorable short stories)

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter; She Walks These Hills, The Rosewood Casket-Sharyn McCrumb (part of the Ballad series..do not have to be read in sequence)

Rice and Beans-Daniel Reveles(great short stories)
 
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