What books have made you REALLY REALLY cry?

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The only one I can think of for myself is "Goodnight Mr Tom", when Zach dies, but especially when Willie has to leave to go back to London

Never Let Me Go - amazing book, I think about it quite often

Never Let Me Go, Jesus that was a bleak book and equally bleak film 😬

Another 'vote' for Never Let Me Go

Incendiary by Chris Cleave.

I was surprised I had such a visceral reaction to it because on paper the protagonist is a bitch. She's cheating on her husband at the very moment that he and her only child are killed in a terrorist bombing.
The way its written though and the aftermath of the bombing, how she pieces her life back together....oh I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.

The Order of the Phoenix when Sirius dies and Deathly Hallows when most of my favourite characters die.

Anne of the Island when Ruby dies and Anne's House of Dreams when her daughter Joyce dies.

Goodnight Mr Tom.

One of the Deric Longdon books where two of his cats die, Frink got hit by a car and Arthur had to be PTS, I cried so much.

Taken by Rosie Lewis

Most books I've ever read 😳

Ones I can remember:
Me Before You
Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon
Of Mice & Men
Fifty Shades Freed
Precious Time - Erica James
Tell It To The Skies - Erica James

Most recently:
Ask Me His Name - Elle Wright
The way Elle writes about her son dying is beautiful but crushing. My DP was genuinely worried about me, I could barely breathe.

In the days before kids and I didn’t cry at almost anything... The Birth of Venus by Susanne Dunant, specifically the end, it completely floored me.

Once and Then, by Morris Gleitzman, particularly Then. Reading it out loud to my kids made me sob. Also We Bought a Zoo (when reading it to my son).

And always Bobbie's "Daddy, my Daddy".

I must be very hard hearted as I've read many of these and not cried...not sure what that says about me

The House at Pooh Corner. Silent tears just at the descriptions by two PPs! I think it's because I have a toddler son and he's my last child...I'll be awful when he starts school

Charlotte's Web.

Mof3K and other pps
I absolutely adored The Goldfinch and I hadn’t ‘lived’ in a book in that way since I was a teenager.
Which bits specifically made you cry?
Presumably Popchyk lived out his days at Hobie’s. He was quite old in the last part of the book and there are mentions of him being a bit stiff for example, being unable to stand on his back legs with his front paws on the edge of the bath.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas broke me. And Marley and Me.

I would also list the Goldfinch as one of my favourite books, and I don't remember crying. Or at many of these to be honest. I am just upset by descriptions of small boys and their teddy bears 😭

A chapter in Kit de Waal's The Trick to Time where one woman helps another talk about her still birth and the loss of her future with that child. I was listening to the audiobook while walking the dog and wept as I walked back home. People stopped me and asked me if I was OK.

Oh god I'd forgotten about Lee Scoresby and Hester in the Subtle Knife and now I'm sat here in tears. I was working away from home at the time and I can remember sitting in my hotel bed at 2am sobbing my heart out and everyone asking me the next day if I was ok because my eyes were all red and swollen.

Oh my goodness, it doesn't take much for me to cry over a book and if I've read the ones already mentioned, I've cried!

I remember sobbing over The Bridges of Madison County, also Captain Corelli and more recently A Little Life.

Ds1 was given Love You Forever by Robert Munsch years ago which I couldn't actually get through without crying - proper can't speak crying. All the dc's loved this book so I ended up hiding it as found it too traumatic to read! It's still on the bookshelf though.

The end of His Dark Materials is so sad though, when they are both sitting on the bench around the tree but they aren't in the same universe so can't actually see each other or be together ever again

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Elizabeth McCracken
I found comfort and shared heartbreak in similar circumstance.

Just finished All the Light They Cannot See - very good but didn't make me sob like The Nightingale, not as emotionally written but the prose was beautiful .

Little Women when Beth dies.

A man called Ove - I love it.
Also though parts of About a Boy and Man and Boy. And war Horse, The fault in our stars, me before you, the railway children, a little princess.... OK loads of books make me cry. Don't get me started on kids books....

Philip Pullmans "The Subtle Knife"

Lyra and Will discovering each other and their beginning (sobs), Lyra leaving Pan (sobs), Lyra leaving Will (sobs)