Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books I Had VERY Strong Emotions About.
Some of my favorite books are the ones that make me FEEL… good, bad, happy, sad, but never indifferent! (Okay, a certain book that made me mad isn’t actually a favorite — but it absolutely gave me some very strong feelings… of anger.)
Here are my top ten:
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery: Joy, delight, feelings of being totally charmed.
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: A sense of wonder and connection.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling: Sorrow… you know why.
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman: Such a mix of emotions! Entertainment, but really getting to experience all the ups and downs of all the various characters.
- The Guncle by Steven Rowley: Heart-warming happiness, but with threads of sympathetic sadness too.
- The Extraordinaries by T. J. Klune: Hilarity… but also intense embarassment over the characters’ most cringe behavior (which is still intensely funny)
- Hunter’s Moon by Dana Stabenow: Grief, no other way to put it.
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon: Is “swoon” an emotion? Okay, love and sadness and fear and delight, over and over and over.
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer: This is the book that made me so angry that I wanted to throw it across the room. There’s a certain point where I was just NOPE.
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness: Grief and sympathy.
What books made you feel all the feelings?
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Love that Disney scale of emotions! I’m #7 today for sure. ;D And yes to your choice of Harry Potter! That book made me cry.
Haha, I was a #8 for a good part of the day, but I can definitely relate to 7 too! HP6 is one of the most emotional in the series. I’m not over it!
Hi Lisa – I laughed when I saw Eclipse on your list and read your reaction! I really loved A Monster Calls – great book!
A Monster Calls was so beautiful and powerful. It’s been years since I read it, but I distinctly remember how it made me feel.
Now I think I should re-read it – I read it about 7 years ago.
I agree with Anne of Green Gables. I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I think of it.
It’s so lovely! 🙂
It’s the one book I have reread a number of times and recently listened to an audio version. Same love, same feelings!
I’ve read some of these, and love them. I should check out the others, too.
On the scale of Disney, today I’m a #7. 🩷🌺
I hear you! That Disney scale is going to come in really handy… I mostly had an 8 day, but can feel myself veering straight into 7!!
I can see how that would be. 😀
The Extraordinaries! Loved that book but forgot to add it to my list, how could I?!
The Extraordinaries is so amazing! I love the characters so much — will definitely want to read the series again at some point.
Strong emotions make the most memorable reads!
Absolutely! When a book leaves an impression like that, you know it’s something special.
I definitely agree about Outlander and A Monster Calls. I also really loved Remarkable Creatures. I may have to read The Guncle, I’ve heard such good things about it.
The Guncle is such a delight — highly recommended!
😂. Yeah, When I feel like throwing a book across the room, that’s when I know I *really* didn’t like it! Time to return it to the library or get rid of it if it’s one I own!
Since I already owned Eclipse, I didn’t get rid of it… but I did stomp around my house fuming for quite a while afterward. 🙂
Such a great list!! Anxious people is a really good book. And Anne is of course lovely. Monster calls makes me cry every time!! And eclipse definitely makes me angry!!
Glad to hear we’re so in sync! 🙂
I love that you included a Harry Potter book. And I also agree with Remarkably Bright Creatures and A Monster Calls😁
I feel like my relationship to the world of HP has, sadly, become complicated by JKR herself and my feelings about her… but it’s good to think back and remember that the books themselves were so important to me and my family and so many points of our lives.
A Monster Calls was heart-wrenching!
Absolutely! It’s been many years since I read it, but I so clearly remember how I felt during the reading experience.