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’s Mandolin
A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Hunger Games, when Rue dies. Then again in Mockingjay when Finnick dies!

Obviously Goodnight, Mr Tom too! And The Shepherd's Crown, because it was the end, and Granny Weatherwax was dead as well as Terry Pratchett

I also wept buckets at the last Harry Potter book!

One Day by David Nichols, not just a couple of tears but great big out loud and sudden uncontrollable sobbing.

A Little Life. Spent an entire Sunday in bed sobbing and it floored me for about a week after.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Under the Almond Tree

I was recently reading Private Peaceful with my year 8s and started crying at the end - I've read it hundreds of times before so blaming pregnancy hormones! There was a book I used to read a teen - a young American girl aspiring to be a professional actress (possibly dancer?) and while she navigates the pitfalls of showbusiness her mother dies...used to make me bawl! Can't remember what it's called though. Oh and of course Harry Potter when Fred died and when Hagrid is carrying Harry's body and thinks he's dead.

So many of these left me cold

Dogger, the children’s book by Shirley Hughes. Now, that one had me bawling my eyes out every time i read it to my children. Every time without fail.

Adult book... The Road

The Green Mile made me cry so much my mum came upstairs to see what was wrong and I couldn't explain due to the sobbing

So many i bizarrely can’t remember, but howled at the book thief and time travellers wife

Dogger

“And then Bella did something very kind....”

I can’t actuallt read the words aloud!

Jane Eyre - when Helen dies. Read it so many times and always end up crying!
The Future Homemakers of America - poor Gayle!

Old Yeller and Black Beauty - I can read through any amount of human deaths dry-eyed, but when any animal meets a tragic end I'm in bits.

Sophie’s Choice. Cried so much on the train a fellow commuter gave me a handkerchief.

Eleanor Oliphant

Me before You

And most of the above!

The War of the Twins when the gully dwarves are all killed at the battle of Pax Tharkas, and The Test of the Twins, at the end "Look Raist, bunnies" - gets me every time.
When I read On the Beach, by Nevil Shute I start to well up about half way through and by the end I can barely see for sobbing.

Oh yes The Shepherds Crown so damn poignant. Also the last chapter of the House at Pooh Corner, bedtime reading took a bit of a downturn that night.

The Art of Racing in the Rain.

I can't even get through the first page without sobbing.

Ps I love u - when i was young, I'm not sure if it would still get me
One day
The keeper of lost things - not really sure why, but here and there I just had to put the book down and have a little sob. Think I was generally emotional at the time and it provided a release for the emotions!

Also. To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout says 'hey boo'. Gets me every damn time 😢

Actually to an extent... The Midnight Gang.
Also the Lord of the Rings (The Siege of Gondor) and one of the short stories in The Chronicles of Avonlea (about a lady everyone thought was proud and horrible but who was actually penniless and couldn’t afford anything to replace her Mum's formal silk gowns, who at huge personal cost becomes a mystery benefactor to the DD of her true love, who by her presence brings the old lady to life again, then everything comes out when the old lady falls ill and the whole town feels terrible and takes care of her forever; I was in bits).

When breath becomes air

The Shepherd's Crown. I put off reading it for ages because I couldn't bear for it to be the end of the Discworld

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

The Grapes of Wrath

@BeardyButton

Agree. Final paragraphs

A Song for Issey Bradley - Carys Bray. You d have to be made of stone not to sob when reading this. Lots of humour in it too, which makes the sad bits even sadder.