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La liste des regrets

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The Collected Regrets of Clover

Mikki Brammer · 320 pages

IntroversionFinding PurposeTerminal IllnessGrief and Mourning
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After You

Jojo Moyes · 448 pages

"How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body h

Finding PurposeGrief and MourningTerminal IllnessBittersweet
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce · 355 pages

Harold Fry has recently retired and now, he doesn't do very much. Even mowing the lawn, like his wife Maureen tells him to do, seems too much work for him. When, one day, he recieves a lettre in a pink envelope, this lazyness changes. In it, his collegue from long time ago, Queenie Hennessy, tells him she is going to die soon from a cancer in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold, at first

Finding PurposeTerminal IllnessGrief and MourningHeartwarming
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Before I Die

Jenny Downham · 332 pages

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

Finding PurposeGrief and MourningCharacter-DrivenTerminal Illness
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Aftertaste

Daria Lavelle · 400 pages

Finding PurposeGrief and MourningNew York CityBittersweet
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Wish You Were Here

Jodi Picoult · 336 pages

Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she kn

Finding PurposeBittersweetSelf-DiscoveryCharacter-Driven
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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Terminal IllnessGrief and MourningNew York CitySelf-Discovery
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A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s

Grief and MourningSelf-DiscoveryTerminal IllnessHeartwarming
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The One & Only

Emily Giffin · 582 pages

Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.

Grief and MourningSelf-DiscoveryCharacter-DrivenBittersweet
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Finding PurposeTerminal IllnessGrief and MourningCharacter-Driven
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They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera · 378 pages

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for

Finding PurposeGrief and MourningNew York CityCharacter-Driven
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The Friday Night Knitting Club

Kate Jacobs · 384 pages

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

Terminal IllnessNew York CitySelf-DiscoveryGrief and Mourning
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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson · 464 pages

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

IntroversionFinding PurposeContemporary FictionHeartwarming
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Oona Out of Order

Margarita Montimore · 339 pages

Finding PurposeBittersweetCharacter-DrivenSelf-Discovery
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This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub · 310 pages

Terminal IllnessNew York CityCharacter-DrivenBittersweet
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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

Grief and MourningBittersweetNew York CityCharacter-Driven
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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · 318 pages

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Grief and MourningCharacter-DrivenTerminal IllnessBittersweet
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The Life List

Lori Nelson Spielman · 353 pages

Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. All in all, a charmed life. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will with one big stipulation: In order to receive her inheritance, Brett must first complete the life list of goals she'd written when she was a naïve girl of fourteen. Grief-stricken, Brett can barely ma

Finding PurposeGrief and MourningHeartwarmingSelf-Discovery
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Melissa Bank · 274 pages

After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.

New York CitySelf-DiscoveryBittersweetCharacter-Driven
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Gather

Kenneth M. Cadow · 325 pages

Publisher Annotation: A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel.

Finding PurposeBittersweetSelf-DiscoveryCharacter-Driven
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P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern · 512 pages

Terminal IllnessGrief and MourningBittersweetHeartwarming
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STILL ME

Jojo Moyes, Eva Carballeira Díaz, Sandra Chaparro Martínez · 496 pages

Finding PurposeNew York CityHeartwarmingSelf-Discovery
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot

Finding PurposeGrief and MourningBittersweetCharacter-Driven
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The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes · 152 pages

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse. This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a

IntroversionSelf-DiscoveryBittersweetGrief and Mourning
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