Top Ten Tuesday: Ten books you should read if you're in the mood to feel feelings, aka cry pathetically into multiple pillows

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c.j.'s selections                         ten ten ten
one		All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven  I cried during this, after it, and then for another several hours after it so I had to go all high school angsty and paint something to get the feelings out of my skull.  It's beautifully tragic and oh so lovely.
two		The Fault in Our Stars - John Green  I mean, probably you live under a box if you haven't read or at least narrowly contemplated reading this book, but there's hardly better fodder for tears available on the free market.  Cancer + Love + Teenagers = C.J. sobbing like a five-year-old in a movie theater.
three		Atonement - Ian McEwan  Okay, I'm gonna admit, I saw the movie first and sobbed ugly sobs and then got halfway through the book before collapsing into a heap of humanity and deciding I wasn't going to do that to myself all over again.  But if you enjoy crying for hours, then this is your jam.
four		This Raging Light - Estelle Laure  This book offers so many feelings.  There's vindictiveness!  There's rage!  There's squeamish swooniness.  There's almost-crying but crying is hard so maybe you will but I actually didn't.  It's a heartwrenching contemporary with lovely prose and it'll punch you in the gut.
five		A History of Glitter and Blood - Hannah Moskowitz  The main character keeps the sentient remains of her sort-of-but-not-actually-dead father in a jar.  Are you experiencing human emotions yet!?  It's a weird, gorgeous, strange, violent fantasy whirlwind, and severely underrated when it comes both to feels and to ratings.
six		I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson  The only thing Nelson is better at than crafting believable characters and painterly prose is wringing every ounce of emotion out of her readers.  This novel is the rageful, tearful, happy, romantic, frustrating story of two twins grown apart and the madness that brings them back together.
seven		The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky  If you don't feel feelings when reading this, then you probably have no soul.  It's almost unfair how beautifully heart-crushing this growing-up story is, told in Charlie's simple, earnest, freaking adorable letters.
eight		Red Rising - Pierce Brown  If you have yet to get on board with this sci-fi epic masterpiece, then where the hell have you been!?  Not only is it beautifully written, intricately plotted, and dazzlingly world-built (that's a thing I swear), but it'll tear your heart out of your chest, shove it back in, and come back for seconds.
nine		More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera  Brooklyn boy is gay, but a magical-sounding totally scientific procedure promises to be able to remove any memory.  Add teenagers and angst and love and New York alleys and you have a quirky tragic love story that will leave you satisfied but unmistakably bereft.
ten		The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness  Hear me out.  Yes, it's sardonically funny and amazingly irreverent and about ordinary people living among Chosen Ones who battle aliens and stuff.  But it's also about Mikey, the loneliest elf, who's convinced that he's the least wanted person in every room.  And maybe it's just me, but it struck about a thousand heart chords and made me all thoughtful and soggy-eyed.