What books have made you REALLY REALLY cry?

[QuimReaper]

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

Where Nighteyes dies that should say

The ending of The House At Pooh Corner.

"So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing."

Mog and the VET

About that have already been mentioned, but also The Green Mile. I was in floods of tears for a lot of that one.

A Thousand Suns

Fat Ladies Club

Fault in our stars and The tattooist of Auschwitz

Me Before You
A Man Called Ove
The Boy Made of Blocks
Our Song

The Hand That First Held Mine
The Bridges of Madison County
A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Subtle Knife was the first book to ever make me cry.
If I Stay
Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth (author of Call the Midwife)

A tale of two cities - I cried terribly at the end.

Kes.

And that is over and above every other book I’ve ever read.

Goodbye Mog gets me as well. And The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.

The Great Gatsby and All Quiet On The Western Front are very moving too.

The Bridges of Madison County.

P.S. I Love You

I’ve also cried at various points in the Harry Potter books. When Dobby died I had to put the book down and weep into a towel

Kes is of course called A Kestrel For A Knave 😀

Charlotte Gray - traumatised is probably more accurate.

Atonement

Yes to The Green Mile, The Chamber and The Fault in Our Stars too. So many great suggestions, my "to read" has new titles on it now, I'm just gonna go order some tissues!

@AuntieDolly by Sebastian Faulks? If so, floods. First read it at 21, cant believe it's so old!

Although the Eddings books that kept me sane through my childhood are much older.

@SimplySteveRedux

I wanted to marry Garion when I was 12

Child of the Forest (the biography of Shulamit Perlmutter).

It's set during the Holocaust in Poland, I thought I'd heard everything about the Holocaust yet reading this book horrified me & had me in tears.
It should be required reading in schools throughout the world to teach children about where racism can lead...

The Outsiders - SE Hinton. Stay gold, Ponyboy.

The Railway Children ‘daddy, my daddy’ broke my heart as a (fatherless) child 💔

The time traveller’s wife - now-DH gave it to me while we were on a very tortured break, I read it while travelling and sobbed and sobbed (v embarrassing in front of travelling companions!)

One Day - I’m not entirely exaggerating when I say I think it may have triggered PND - read it when DD was 4 months old, sobbed for about 4 hours solid and a year of anxiety and depression followed. Obviously not all to do with the book but it was almost as if it unlocked all the pregnancy and birth trauma I’d gone through and it just made me fall apart a bit. DH thought I’d lost it! We were on holiday at the time. It was the bit where her life passes in front of her and there is the memory of being on the beach with her mum and dad (howls)

@UrbanMage DP says I was conditioned to like redheads because I was besotted with Ce'Nedra

Desert flower by waris dirie. True story.