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What was the last book you read that made you cry?

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fleshmarketclose · 02/03/2019 18:24

It must be years since I read a book that made me cry but today reading Neil Cross's Luther The Calling, I have cried out loud when the pensioner and his dog were terrorised.
What books have made you cry?

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JAPAB · 21/03/2019 23:35

Not cry but got a lump at certain moments or lines of
The Time Traveller's Wife & The Amber Spyglass

SoundofSilence · 18/03/2019 15:40

The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin. I was in pieces on the bus and had to stop reading it.

BellMcEnd · 18/03/2019 15:38

In Shock by Dr Rana Awdish. It’s brilliant and taught me loads.

AvonCallingBarksdale · 18/03/2019 15:36

Just read My Name Is Anna which I loved, and found myself crying.

PerfumeandOranges · 14/03/2019 19:40

The Salt Path by Raynard Wynne. The couple lose their home and go on a very long walk. Pretty emotional,

Creatureofthenight · 13/03/2019 20:20

Moonlight by Sarah Crossan. Had me in bits at the end.

Licencedtodrill · 13/03/2019 20:18

Perfect by Rachel Joyce for me too- it's so poignant. It's my favourite book by her.

AvonCallingBarksdale · 13/03/2019 12:38

A Monster Calls - proper sobs
Perfect - Rachel Joyce (most of her books make me cry in a good way though)

CostanzaG · 12/03/2019 11:34

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ....made me sob! Beautiful book.

BookWitch · 12/03/2019 11:32

The Hearts invisible furies

Tinkhasflown · 11/03/2019 13:25

The Kite Runner had me sobbing at parts. Also The Butterfly Lion, which is a children's book, I cried at the end!

SyrilSneer · 09/03/2019 21:03

A Place For Us.

TattiePants · 09/03/2019 21:01

This is Going to Hurt (the reason the author left medicine) had me sobbing. I warned DH not to read that part on the train but he was totally unphased by it. There was a part much earlier in the book that had me crying with laughter too!

IndigoApple · 09/03/2019 19:54

seeingdots

The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer me too! On a train. Most unlike me.

Recently, The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood was incredibly sad.

Jenniferyellowcat · 09/03/2019 19:48

Home Fire made me burst into tears at the end. That doesn’t happen often.

tripfiction · 09/03/2019 14:41

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

It was a Hello Sunshine (Reese Witherspoon, who runs this great book club) choice a couple of months back, a beautifully told story set in atmospheric N Carolina

What was the last book you read that made you cry?
shinyblackdog · 08/03/2019 22:01

SkirmishOfWit, This Thing of Darkness nearly ended me! I read it over ten years ago and I'm working my way up to a reread. Any Human Heart had me in pieces on a plane. Life After Life and A God in Ruins and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance.

Disney2 · 08/03/2019 20:46

Eleanor Oliphant when she had the.. episode.. in the middle (don't want to spoil it for anyone!)

Theweasleytwins · 06/03/2019 16:01

Abhorsen- at the end😭😭😭

PrincessScarlett · 06/03/2019 16:00

Me Before You reduced me to a sobbing wreck.

Portulaca · 06/03/2019 15:58

I think the last one was The Light Between Oceans. But books rarely make me cry .

KatsutheClockworkOctopus · 06/03/2019 15:04

A Close and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. Her books are so warm and thoughtful.

FawnDrench · 06/03/2019 14:17

All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr.
Sobbed for quite a bit of the second half of the book.

hackmum · 06/03/2019 10:13

Strangely, it was Middle England by Jonathan Coe. I hardly ever cry at books, but there's a bit at the end where Lois Trotter says that for the past 40 years, every night when she has gone to her bed her last thought has always been of the Birmingham pub bombings, in which her boyfriend died. Imagine having to live with that for the rest of your life.

Disfordarkchocolate · 05/03/2019 20:40

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, I felt bereft at the end.