Twitter is a fantastic place to engage your audience with questions that ask them to give their opinion. It’s a place where you can gain knowledge, get some book ideas or, in this case at least, get some great content to create a really useful blog post for others.
Recently I created a post that showed some of the responses I received when I asked my Twitter followers which books they thought had the best twist in them.
It was a tweet that received so many responses that I wanted to share as part of an article to not only give you all some options of books to read to guarantee a good twist but also provide my audience with some genuinely great content.
That article turned out to be the most read article I posted in February and is already one of my most viewed of the year. Therefore, when I asked people what the saddest book they’ve ever read is and I started to receive a large number of responses again, I knew it would make another great article.
You can find the original tweet here which is still getting some traction and some answers through. If you’re looking for a book that’s going to tug on the heartstrings then you’re not going to find many better threads on the internet.
Below, as I did before, I have embedded the most popular responses from this thread and then put links to each of the books so you can quickly go and order them so you can be crying into a tissue as soon as tomorrow. And on that note:
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All My Mothers by Joanna Glen
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- Pick up a copy of Shuggie Bain by Douglas Start here.
- You can actually read my review of Shuggie Bain right here.
Hideous Beauty by William Hussey
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
People Like Us By Louise Fein
So there are seven books at least to get your teeth into this weekend and make yourself cry. You can use the links above to quickly jump to their pages on Amazon.
Or, for convenience (because I’m just that damn nice, here is a list of the books:
- All My Mothers by Janna Glen
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- Hideous Beauty by William Hussey
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- People Like Us by Louise Fein
Have you got any books that don’t feature on the list that you think might make people cry or have certainly made you cry? Let me know by adding them to the Twitter thread.
