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

Handling the undead by john ajvide linqvist

I read it on holiday on Weymouth beach....cried so hard

And made dh buy me another book immediately so i could take my mind of it

@amibeing it has affected me so deeply. I know its irrational, but it made me feel so... I dont know.... Undeserving. It definitely humbled me. I think its such a loss to humanity. The force for good he would have been....

Marley and Me. I'm never reading that again.

The end of Tom's Midnight Garden.

A Little Life
The Time Traveller’s Wife
My Sister’s Keeper

@BeardyButton

So powerful. Such a waste.
And his remarks about his daughter in final paragraphs hit me like a steam train

@Amibeingdaft81 @BeardyButton

Yes, same here, it's a book everyone should read.

Angry tears for man's inhumanity to man in Liza of Lambeth.

@Amibeing same same. The bit about hoping shed have memories of him... Im off crying again!

Completely agree with Goodnight Mr Tom, can't read that without sobbing.
The Book Thief made me properly cry as well.

If we're counting children's books the Velveteen Rabbit and Dogger also make me sob.

My sisters keeper - I wasn’t expecting that ending and had recently lost my brother in a car accident. I cried for hours.
Elenor Ophiliant
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Storyteller - another Jodi Picoult one

Another one for 'the end of the affair' by Grahame Green. It's about lost love and the last page is heartbreaking in the man's devastation and anger. Always cry no matter how man6 times I read it!

Lots, and lots are mentioned on here, I'm a bit of a crier! My most recent one though was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a post 9/11 novel. I read it for my English MA and listened a lot on audio. The narrators were so great that I found myself just stood absolutely still, compelled.

Wept in the car listening whilst driving, had to turn it off! And mortifyingly wept whilst discussing it in my seminar . Also had to stop myself crying 'Nooooo!' out loud whilst listening with ear phones at my son's swimming lesson - awesome stuff 😭 😭

My most memorable ones

Flawed by Ceclia Ahern
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Time Travellers wife by Audrey Niffeneger
Only ever yours by Louise O'Neil

Then she was gone - Lisa Jewell. I just destroyed me.

I'm trying to think and I really don't think there is an adult book that has actually made me cry at all - possibly well up slightly, but cry like I do with films? No... That is so weird, I'm really trying to think but I don't think I have.

I have cried at Goodbye Mog when reading it to my class.

And also, a book called 'The Hare Who Lost Her Hair'. I got it when I had breast cancer to read to my kids. It's very metaphorical, but there is a bit in it where she has to keep drinking from this horrible river because its the only thing that will make her better, and she really doesn't want to go back there but she keeps going back week after week because she knows it's the only thing that will make her better. I can't read it out loud without crying!

Before I Die by Jenny Downham. I really sobbed my heart out.

Also sobbed my heart out to the last Call the Midwife book, when one of Jenny's elderly patients dies in a care home after trying to be independent for a long time.

Both books came at a time in my life shortly after bereavement.

Goodbye Mog really gets me.

Reading Charlotte's web to my daughters, as an adult Grapes of Wrath.

When You Were Born - Emma Dodd.
I waited so long for my baby and that book just makes me so emotional every time.

The Chamber by John Grisham. I sat in the garden and sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. Odd really. It was about a ku klux clan member going to death row. He was guilty. He knew the penalty and accepted it.
It was so powerful that it changed my opinion on the death sentence.

Dead wife's handbook 😢

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

This^^. I'm glad you didn't type the actual line from the book. The saddest thing I've ever read.

So many!!! The ones that stand out are:

Black Beauty, when Ginger dies
War Horse, most of it
The very end of His Dark Materials

Kids books are Paper Dolls & Charlotte's Web.

Lean On Pete by Willy Valutin
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain.

Both brilliamt, brilliant reads.

Room by Emma Donoghue