Tearjerkers
Find your next heart-wrenching read with our curated list of tearjerkers. From Sarah MacLean's *Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake* to Edith Wharton's classic *The House of Mirth*, explore emotionally powerful fiction that will move you to tears.
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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
by Sarah MacLean
When Lady Calpurnia Hartwell vows to break the rules of society and live a life of pleasure, she finds a willing partner in Gabriel St. John, the Marquess of Ralston, but her plan falls apart when she falls in love with him.
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The Fortune Quilt
by Lani Diane Rich
After producing a television story about psychic quilt-maker Brandywine Seaver, Carly McKay's successful world is thrown into disarray when she receives a quilt along with a mysterious reading warning her of an imminent change in her life, loses her job and her best friend, and is reunited with the mother who had abandoned the family seventeen years earlier. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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This Heart of Mine
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance. Then there's her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns—that awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember Molly's name! One night Kevin barges into Molly's not-quite-perfect life and turns it upside down. Unfortunately, the Ferrari-driving riving, poodle-hating jock isn't as shallow as she wishes he were, and she soon finds herself at a place called Wind Lake. Surrounded by paintbox cottages, including a charming old bed-and-breakfast, Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life's most important lessons. Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes—if you're lucky—it can heal in a most unexpected way.
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern document of cultural anthropology.