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Book to make me cry..

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StressedButBlessedx · 18/10/2021 11:13

So, this is going to sound a bit mental but I'm 26 weeks pregnant.. hormonal and recently just always feel a need to cry! I'm not unhappy, just hormonal and need something to let it out to!

Which books do you recommend for this? Last book I read was The Choice by Edith Edgar and that really broke my heart💔

The kind of thing I'm looking for is something possibly war themed? I love history. But mainly something not too far fetched. Thankyou:)

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AcornTreeMusic · 01/11/2021 20:34

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
All brilliant and heartbreaking books that have been made into brilliant and heartbreaking movies.
I love a good sob, me, but my hormones are down to menopause. I'm crying at most things tbh Grin

newtb · 30/10/2021 22:26

Cricket 'a tale of humble life' by Silas Hocking

You can get second hand ones. It's a real tear jerker about Victorian Liverpool and the workhouse.

Chakraleaf · 30/10/2021 22:16

The nightingale and World War related.

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StressedButBlessedx · 22/10/2021 10:39

Thankyou so much everyone!!

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FlowerPower3110 · 21/10/2021 15:41

Definitely "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. I read it years ago and still think about it from time to time.

Bunnyvenom · 21/10/2021 06:16

I was on a packed commuter train when I got to the end of My Sisters Keeper. I remember not being able to contain the tears. Not the best book I’ve ever read but definitely the saddest.

martharob · 20/10/2021 22:33

Another vote for A Little Life. Also Lullabies for Little Criminals and American Dirt.

Italianmeringuebuttercream · 20/10/2021 20:01

@hotdogsjumpingfrogs A monster calls had me in absolute bits, I was silently sobbing trying not to wake my husband! I'm welling up now just thinking of it

Italianmeringuebuttercream · 20/10/2021 19:57

Definitely the book thief. I've read it twice and had a wet pillow both times. Also, All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr is brilliant.

ninjathegersh · 20/10/2021 19:48

More votes here for...

  • The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Lois de Bernier (definitely an ending to get you sobbing!)
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (read about her giving birth and you'll be so very grateful for our wonderful NHS...!)

But also try these ones too...

  • 3 things about Elsie by Joanna Cannon (made me sob away on a beach in Devon... It was a lovely sunny day by the seaside, but I was soo engrossed)

  • Suite Française by Irène Nemirovsky (I could not stop sobbing at the end when reading about her own life.... Very tragic as her manuscript was written during WW2 but published many, many years later. Continuous blubbering about an hour later... )

Facespook · 20/10/2021 07:59

I second (third?) Life after life
A little life also slayed me but it very long so you’ll probably have given birth by the time you finish it 😂
I also sobbed at the time traveller’s wife
Hamnet

PurpleHydrangea1 · 20/10/2021 07:55

The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hoisseini.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.

The last two aren't war related but still emotional. I was a sobbing mess ln all of these.

StormyCornishSeas · 18/10/2021 20:05

Not a novel as such but "Life on the Refrigerator Door" by Alice Kuipers has me bawling. It's quite short so you can read the whole thing in one sitting so by the end i'm proper ugly crying

Ijustreallywantacat · 18/10/2021 19:38

The light between oceans. Utterly heartbreaking

doodledeedum · 18/10/2021 19:37

Anybody out there? Marion Keyes

StColumbofNavron · 18/10/2021 19:36

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak recently had me in bits on the bus.

All Louis de Berniere’s books make me cry, usually in the most unexpected and mundane parts.

I am a crier though and it really doesn’t take much. I am saving A Little Life for a period in life where I can hide away and just ugly cry.

Princessdebthe1st · 18/10/2021 19:30

@hotdogsjumpingfrogs

A monster calls by Philip Ness, but may be too sad!
I was going to suggest A Monster Calls as well. I read the penultimate chapter in a restaurant whilst on a business trip and had to go back to my hotel room to finish the book as I was absolutely balling my eyes out. As hotdogs says it is very sad and as it deals with a mother of a young child dying it might be a bit of a tricky read at the moment. It is amazing though and if you do read it try and get the original black and white graphic version as the illustrations are astonishing and really add to the experience.
anormalperson · 18/10/2021 19:29

Boys don't cry by Fíona Scarlett. Still well up thinking about the characters. Best book I've read in ages

Glaghirl · 18/10/2021 19:29

This broke my heart

Book to make me cry..
Mookie81 · 18/10/2021 19:28

@triplechoc

The Book Thief, I SOBBED.
My god, the last page 😭😭😭😭
Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 18/10/2021 19:28

Bridge to Terabithia is pretty good at getting the tear ducts working too.

youngestisapsycho · 18/10/2021 19:28

The only book I’ve ever sobbed at was The Horse Whisperer.

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 18/10/2021 19:27

Nearly all of Paul Gallico’s novellas - my particular favourites are The Small Miracle, and Flowers for Mrs Harris.

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 18/10/2021 19:25

Little Boy Lost, by Marghanita Laski. Father is searching for his son who was lost in the Occupation of France. Very, very weepy.

rosie561 · 18/10/2021 19:23

@TwoMountains

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
I came to say this too!
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