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

Captain Corelli and The Unexpected Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

Corelli was worse. I properly snot sobbed for that one. Can’t even remember the story, I just remember the crying!

A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini. I cried & cried & cried.

The Red Pony, John Steinbeck. Lord, I SOBBED! And the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe when they’re undoing the ropes and stroking his cold dead face. Dear me!

So many but probably Little Women most of all, every time (and there have been many) since I was 8 years old.

I went through a real phase of war fiction and the waste of life element always gets to me. Birdsong was one I remember really sobbing at. I was such a mess watching the film of The Boy in Striped Pyjamas that I’ve never been able to bring myself to read the book.

There’s been a few mentioned on here (particularly Captain Corelli) that I read a while ago and now really want to revisit.

Memoirs of a geisha. I sobbed and sobbed when her sister was sold into prostitution.

Of mice and men - many years since I've read it but I remember being very moved

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The remains of the day. The bit at the very end where he said he thought his heart might be breaking (or something....)

Captain corelli's mandolin was so badly written I couldn't warm to it at all.

eightytwenty The Heart’s Invisible Furies is an astonishing book. I read it a few weeks ago and have been recommending it to everyone. It made me cry too.

Never let me go.
The Outsiders
That was then, this is now.

Loads actually over the years. Just had a good sob at the Heart's Invisible Furies.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas too.
Dogger.
Anything by Michael Morpurgo, to the extent I feel manipulated!

I can't actually read this thread as it has so many spoilers in it!

The end of the affair by Graham Greene

Grapes Of Wrath

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, it’s all harrowing but the description of the men working in the fields moving the stones from one side to the other, and the last man each time, being shot. The evilness of it all has me welling up everyone I think of it.

Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett. Simply devastating.

Lots of things others have mentioned, so I'll just add 'Angela's Ashes' . I read it soon after giving birth to my first child. Big mistake.

The only book that has ever really made me cry was Charlotte's Web. I first read it when I was 9 years old and I cried myself to sleep over it. I haven't read it since even though I loved it at the time. Maybe I'll be brave and read it to dd at bedtime.

Watership Down, Good Wives and more recently The boy without love and the farm that saved him.

Anne of Green Gables

When Marilla tells Anne they're keeping her
When Matthew buys Anne her first puffed sleeve dress
When Anne is falsely accused of getting Diana drunk and then forbidden from being her friend
WHEN MATTHEW DIES
WHEN MATTHEW DIES
WHEN MATTHEW DIES

Lots of the same novels that have been mentioned but not the same parts!

Goodnight Mr Tom, when he rescues William from his mother's

Captain Corelli- the Italian soldiers

Harold Fry - when he finally reaches the nursing home

Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones - a moving and shocking novel about civil war in Polynesia

A good cry is so cathartic!

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Angela's Ashes, Warhorse, Book Thief, to name but a few!

I cry easily over books but some of the ones that stand out for me are:

Tess of the d’Urbevilles - devastating
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell

Gone with the Wind and Anne of Green Gables

The death of Helen in Jane Eyre
The Little Match Girl

On the beach. At the end where they take the poison, with the baby. Gaah.

Rilla of Ingleside... (L.M Mongomery Anne of Green Gables series) when Jem comes home from WW1 and little dog Monday greets him after waiting for 4 years at the station... I have read it so many times and it makes me sob.

The Subtle Knife... Hester and Lee Scorsby... sob...

Goofbye Mog. I CANNOT read it aloud!

The Day the Guinea Pig talked..Paul Gallico.. if you have never heard of it, it's a very short childrens book and it is LOVELY. A little girl and her guinea pig have a few moments by magic to actually speak to each other...

A little life
A thousand splendid suns
The kite runner (prefer to a thousand ...)
One flew over the cuckoos nest
The Bonesetters Daughter
Giovanni’s Room - I sobbed on the tube

Sleepers
Of mice and men