what book did you engage with so much that it made you cry?

[BBBee]

sometimes you feel like the author is tugging at your heart strings for no reason and then other times they just really get you.

[sophiewd]

Paula - Isabelle Allende, blubbed like a baby at the end.

[SirDigbyChickenCaesar]

time travellers wife. in my defence i was pregnant and hormonal though

[francagoestohollywood]

We need to talk about Kevin

La Storia by Elsa Morante, and various other Italian novels.

[ipanemagirl]

I can't think of one which made me cry but I'm sure there have been ones which have!

But the book which had such a great moment in it that I nearly fell out of bed was 'Fingersmith' Sarah Waters. I thought that was a great great read.

Scariest book was 'The woman in black' Susan Hill.

[Backgammon]

The last page in To Kill a Mockingbird always makes me cry.

[ViolentFemme]

We need to talk about Kevin, here too.

[GordonBrownKickingHisHeels]

the poisonwood bible - amazing book.

i make no apologies for getting choked up at the time travellers wife.

[falcon]

The Book Thief.

[ButterflyMcQueen]

peppermint pig nina bawden

[Iklboo]

To Kill a Mockingbird (every time)
The Green Mile (every time)

[MrsRecycle]

My Sisters Keeper - Judy Pinochet, cried so much dh thought something serious had happened.

[DoubleBluff]

Mockinbird ( always)
and Time travellers wife - have yet to re read

[Cies]

I cry at so many books. I am an official blubber. Maybe the most recent on the list is The Time Traveller's Wife, but it really doesn't take much to get me sobbing.

[EffiePerine]

too many to count

[castlesintheair]

I sobbed the first time I finished reading The Mayor of Casterbridge

[rosealbie]

Once in a house on fire by Andrea Ashworth

[funnypeculiar]

Lots.
but the last chapter of The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman Northern Light trilogy) made me cry so much i could hardly see the book ...had to put it down and come back later.
Sobbed my heart out at the theatre when they did it at the NT (?) too...

[Badgermoose]

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck. Also, and very feebly several of my children's books and don't even have any hormonal excuse

[edam]

Re-read the Railway Children recently (found my childhood copy and couldn't resist) and I blubbed almost all the way through it. Much more poignant seen through adult eyes.

[anotherbadnight]

loads and loads - but I remember really crying a lot when I'd finished the God of Small Things years ago. Must re-read that ...

[jamescagney]

Wuthering Heights , just even thinking about Cathy and Heathcliff's graves and the wind moving through the harebells sets me off. was sad on July 30 as it was Emily Bronte's b-day.!

[hertsnessex]

Fridays Child By Ben Palmer.

[Dragonbutter]

second vote for the poisonwood bible.
but i cried for a week after i read small island and brick lane. (might have been the hormones)

[squiffy]

God, loads make me cry.

The one that had me sobbing in my 20's was 'By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept'

And the one that had me sobbing in my 30's was 'C: because cowards get cancer too' by John Diamond

The one that's had me sobbing in my 40's is "And when did you last see your father?"