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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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TwoMountains · 18/10/2021 19:16

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

mamaduckbone · 18/10/2021 19:12

Another vote for The Book Thief. I've read it twice and still sobbed just as much the second time round.

plus3 · 18/10/2021 18:59

A Monster Calls requires fluid resuscitation with me...

Birdkin · 18/10/2021 16:56

@fruckkkit

Maybe not what you're looking for as it's quite traumatic but I lost my shit over A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - proper big snotty crying for a good couple of hours. Never has a book affected me that badly before
I cried so much at a Little Life
CatWarbler · 18/10/2021 16:33

@RightOnTheEdge

I came to say the same as SpinsForGin, The Nightingale or Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. For something completely different Half a World Away by Mike Gayle broke my heart a little bit at the end.
I loved Half A World Away. I read it on a plane and cried my eyes out. All The Lonely People is a tear jerker too!
CatWarbler · 18/10/2021 16:32

@HelplessAndLost

Oh I’ve thought of one, the last book I read actually- Cut by Hibo Wardere. Absolutely harrowing.
That needs to be read but omg it gave me nightmares!
CarbonMonoxideParty · 18/10/2021 16:22

The day that went missing by Richard Beard.

Covetthee · 18/10/2021 16:12

The nightingale by Kristin Hannah
It ends with us- colleen hoover.
The hearts invisible furies- john Boyne

fruckkkit · 18/10/2021 16:12

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen, or Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton may be more the sort of thing you're looking for

fruckkkit · 18/10/2021 16:09

Maybe not what you're looking for as it's quite traumatic but I lost my shit over A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - proper big snotty crying for a good couple of hours. Never has a book affected me that badly before

hotdogsjumpingfrogs · 18/10/2021 15:49

A monster calls by Philip Ness, but may be too sad!

RightOnTheEdge · 18/10/2021 14:26

I came to say the same as SpinsForGin,
The Nightingale or Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.
For something completely different Half a World Away by Mike Gayle broke my heart a little bit at the end.

Ruralbliss · 18/10/2021 14:17

Haven't checked if anyone else has suggested my all time favourite book. The only one I've ever read multiple times (the second being the moment I finished the last page)

"After You'd Gone" by Maggie O' Farrell.

Oooh I think I'm going to litany to it on Audible as a school run treat now and try not to have mascara running down my chin by the time I get there

Waternoice · 18/10/2021 12:50

Definitely Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.
And there's also a rather magical, albeit improbable birth, there too!

ShipshapeShore · 18/10/2021 12:47

Captain Corelli's Mandolin had me crying in a couple of places.
The Boof Thief is a wonderful read.

Rua13 · 18/10/2021 12:39

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.Set in the Depression.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

Rainbowqueeen · 18/10/2021 12:36

The light between oceans

stirlingway · 18/10/2021 12:31

Half a yellow sun
A thousand splendid suns

HelplessAndLost · 18/10/2021 12:26

Oh I’ve thought of one, the last book I read actually- Cut by Hibo Wardere.
Absolutely harrowing.

HippyChickMama · 18/10/2021 12:19

Definitely Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks but also in that trilogy is Charlotte Gray which I couldn't finish because it was too sad

Echobelly · 18/10/2021 12:08

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell really made me sob recently.

eightlivesdown · 18/10/2021 12:05

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - WW1

Goodbye Mickey Mouse - Len Deighton - WW2

Hill1991 · 18/10/2021 12:05

Anything by Cathy glass has always made me cry especially when I was pregnant as they are about children in foster care

peachgreen · 18/10/2021 12:04

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I've never cried so much at a book. It's absolutely spectacular, I can't recommend it enough.

oneglassandpuzzled · 18/10/2021 12:00

The One I Was.