Books that have made you cry

[CharliesAngles]

Only one book for me.
The Kite Runner.

A little life, The Amber Spyglass, Marley and Me

The film of A Monster Calls with Liam Neeson is a multi tissue sob fest.

Just remembered
Flowers for Algernon

The Casual Vacancy

Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz

The Grapes of Wrath
The Road
Hamnet

Most recently was Chris Whitaker - We Begin At the End.

Badger’s Parting Gifts - a kids book about death. I can’t read it out loud without tearing up.

’The Paper Dolls’ used to get me too but I’ve managed to harden my heart now I’ve read it five million times.

The bit where Lee Scoresby dies in His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

Dumbledore’s death 😢😢😢

Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

In cold blood

@catsnore Badger’s Parting Gifts - a kids book about death. I can’t read it out loud without tearing up.

Possibly the first book that made me 😭.

I can still see the picture of Badger going down the tunnel to heaven and the further along he gets the freer of pain and ailments he becomes.

Even though I'm old and jaded now I still really hope that is what actually happens when our times come.

another is The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J.Cronin, the struggles of the main protagonist as a child, young adult and a missionary in China, a cried a lot at different parts

A Prayer for Owen Meaney
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
American Dirt
Biko

Moobli - a story about a German shepherd in the Scottish highlands. Many tissues were used in the last chapter(s). I’ve never been able to read it again as it was just too sad.

Wild Swans - Jung Chang - her family autobiography. Just knowing it was true. And it is just so beautifully written it draws emotion with every line.

And A Tale of two cities... any sacrifice for the greater good type book just sets me off.

Mr Tickle

The boy in the striped pyjamas .. and lots of the book already mentioned

I made the mistake of reading A Monster Calls on the plane.

The Kite Runner made me sob like many others have said but there was just something unrelenting in the misery, other books that have been sad have had uplifting or redeeming bits but it just seemed so dark and depressing that as a work of fiction it left me feeling uneasy.

When I was a teenager I cried.buckets over.Love Story

Yes! One of my favourite books, so incredibly bittersweet - makes you think about how brave those ww2 pilots were. Life After Life (another Kate Akinson) is also amazing and definitely made me an emotional wreck!

I read an extract from that a while ago
in The Times and I cried for about 3 hours..

Ohhhhh this book. I was on such a Maggie O’Farrell reading streak, so delighted to have found an author with a trove of works to discover, but this book absolutely ruined me. I think it took me 3 days to pick the book back up after a certain passage, and then I point blank refused to read any more of her books. I can feel my heart racing just thinking about the part which made me collapse. No more! And sounds like I was right to veto her - I was spared Hamnet!

Three Hours (Lupton)
Charlotte's Web
The Four Winds

The Amber Spyglass! I remember trying and failing to hide my crying in my school library over that.

On the Beach
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Shuggy Bain
And the Land Laid Still