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 book thief

The his dark materials trilogy. Something makes me cry in each but most of all the subtle life. I can't even think about Lee and heater without the tears starting

Also the deathly hallows when Harry sees then carrying Colin creevey

I found the bits in The Handmaids Tale where she was having flashbacks to life with her young daughter really upsetting :(

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathon Toomey. Got it to read with dd. Read it by myself first, then put it on a very high shelf so she could never accidentally find it and ask me to read it again. Absolute sobs when he looks at the picture of his lost wife and baby to carve the madonna and child statue. Just heartbreaking.

Eleanor Oliphant- not so much the end, but the wee snippets of memories that come back to her, the bit where she gets Sammy’s jumper and just the little details. For a Glaswegian like me the characters were so well drawn and I had tears in my eyes for loads of it.

The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magnusson. I cried at that on the bus.

I've got tears welling up just remembering some of these! All the Bright Places was heartbreaking, me and my daughter are almost sobbing now at the thought of it. Also have a highly embarrassing memory of weeping uncontrollably in a soft play centre at A Thousand Splendid Suns, just couldn't stop. Also One Day, but the worst was quite recently reading aloud the last chapter of Winnie the Pooh (when Christopher Robin is going to school and saying good bye to the animals) to my son. Wept for an hour!

The lovely bones
Room.

Both well written and amazing books but so so sad.

And this wee board book called Always in my Heart, about a penguin whose mummy is going back to work, as penguins do. My bloody mother gave me that two days before I returned to work after mat leave and I just howled.

Completely agree about Lee and Hester. I remember sobbing at Bath Spa train station when I read that bit (it was a re read but still gets me every time)

Captain Corelli’s mandolin and the road both had me crying ugly tears.
The former because the idea that a lifetime that they could have had together was missed because of a simple misunderstanding broke me (still makes me tearful when I think of it which is ridiculous, it’s over 18 years since I read it) and the latter because it was just the bleakest, most emotionally difficult book I’ve read.

When breath becomes air... full journey of illness, death, emotional healing - the effect on the whole family

The Road and A Monster Calls both had me in floods of tears (and I read both of these before I was a parent, so god knows what they'd do to me now!)

Pretty much all of the Anne of Green Gables series at some point (a fuck ton of death)
Loads of Harry Potter but particularly Hedwigs death
I read My Sister Jodie by Jaqueline Wilson when I was about 8. The ending is utterly traumatising.
Tess of the d’Urbivilles (sp?) wtaf I was hoping for a happy ending
Various Catherine Cooksons that I read when I was too young.

And the last Mog book

The son by Philipp Meyer - I sobbed and sobbed at the end
A Christian book called 'you are special' by max lucado - guaranteed to make me and DC sob

Charlotte’s Web
My mother read it to me, i remember sitting in bed bawling.
I cry just thinking about it. (And now, writing about it)

Restoration by Rose Tremain

Anybody Out There? By Marian Keyes

I cried for weeks after reading it! That was more than ten years ago and still remember being really upset.

A Jennifer Worth book- either call the midwife or shadows of the workhouse. Think it’s the latter? When Mrs Jenkins has run out of options and has to take herself and her children to the workhouse and it says something like “.... and she lay awake all night with all her children around her sleeping, knowing that night would be the last time they would all be together” I sobbed buckets. And again when it was revealed every single one of her children died, one by one. The whole book was sad but glad I read it.

Another one, that I wasn’t expecting to cry at, was the ending of Jonny and the dead by Terry Pratchett when it was revealed the life of one of the ghosts. Was reading it to my 10 year old and had to stop for a minute because I was crying so much.

The ending of Mice and Men.

I actually ended up crying several times while reading Pet Semetary

For anyone interested, this is the end of My Sister Jodie from Wikipedia:
“On Guy Fawkes Night, Jodie climbs up to the tower of the gothic building, dressed as a ghost. While the window is open, she trips in her heels and falls out of the tower, causing her neck to break and die tragically”
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Boy in the striped pyjamas
English Patient
Goodnight Mr Tom

The horse whisperer
The lovely bones
Where rainbows end

The edge of never by j.a redmerski