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

The nightingale and the great alone...both by Kristin Hannah. And I'm not a crier!!

I remember sobbing on the train reading the end of The Go-Between. The end of Atonement similarly got me. I think for both books I was so immersed in the story, that the endings released loads of pent up emotion in me!

Oh and I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of Clare McIntosh's new book 'after the end' ....... absolutely fantastic and incredibly emotional. I also cried at that - maybe I'm more emotional than I thought!!

All quiet on the western front

One day
The boy in the striped pyjamas

"The Heart's Invisible Furies."

There have been others, but I can't remember them. I do recall crying at the end of "Possession" but I've forgotten why. I think I feel emotional when I've loved a very long book and I've come to the end.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Howard Fry ... when it was revealed towards the end that his son had died by suicide . I still remember that every so often , and start to cry again .

Goodnight Mr Tom when he calls him dad . I can’t watch the film as end up sobbing .

The Nightingale most recently
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A little Life
Kite Runner
Birdsong
Northern Light
The Railway Man
A Fine Balance - proper head on the table sobbing

I'm about to finish All the Light we Cannot See and suspect similar

Watership Down nearly killed me when I was about 12 as did Black Beauty

Oh yes, All Quiet on the Western Front

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

The Goldfinch.

Interestingly the trailer for the film has just been released it looks incredible

I was going to say Good night Mr Tom. That was my absolute favourite ever book as a child.

The green mile is heart breaking, My sisters Keeper and the last one in the Maze Runner series.

A book called No Run Intended and its sequel Run Intended. Absolutely awesome, really easy reads by a woman called Hanmah Phillips.

Ode to billy Joel I was sobbing ,, although I was only 16

So I Am Glad by AL Kennedy.

Another vote for The End of the Affair. That killed me and even mentioning it now makes me go a little funny.

I need a good cry actually so maybe I'll read some of these. Thanks!

One Day was a rollercoaster. Cried on the train reading it.

The Book Thief.

City of Thieves by David Benioff. Christ, that had me good. That was another "crying on public transport" book.

Goodnight Mr Tom
How Green was my Valley
The Jersey literary potato peel pie society

Also as a teenager the bit in 'flowers in the attic' where she dreams of her dead father and baby brother.

The Subtle Knife ( Hester ... and Lee Scoresby...)

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

And YY to The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Oh God I loved The Goldfinch MOF3K, I must try and find this film trailer, I do hope it lives up to my memories of that book

This...

The Unbearable lightness of Being.

Several places, but the scene when the dog Karenin is dying, made me bawl. And the perfect descriptions of the love between Thomas and Tereza.

Also the last chapter, and the very last line of the book, it just brings the whole saga to such a beautiful ending.

Atonement. Ian McEwan. 😢

@Lozz22
I agree with the Cathy Glass books, I always cry how ever many times I read them!

A Thousand Splendid Suns.