Books that have made you cry

[CharliesAngles]

Only one book for me.
The Kite Runner.

A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray. Superbly written but so sad.

And Anne of Green Gables when Matthew dies.

Oh yes, loads of these:

I could barely get through reading Wonder to my Y6 class. They all clapped at the end.

Me Before You. Sobbed for a good hour.

But my ultimate sobfests?

It's a toss-up between The Color Purple and Birdsong.

I made the mistake of reading the chapter about the first wave of the Somme in Birdsong on a bus. I could barely contain myself

Me before you by jo Jo moyes, and insomnia by Stephen king. The ending always has me sobbing

It's the twist (if that's the right word) in THTFHM, I just did not see it coming and had to keep rereading that part to make sure I'd read what I thought I had and hoping I'd read It wrong somehow.

Having said that it didn't put me off MOFs books and I loved Hamnet. Even the 😭 parts.

Shuggie Bain especially the last few pages 😭

@MissRoseDurward So many parts of Rilla of Ingleside! Walter, Jem, when Kenneth returns...
I'm a terrible sobber when reading and LM Montgomery knew how to tug the heartstrings.

I don’t normally post other than weight loss chats however I was amazed to see two of the few books to make me cry on here - The Bridges of Madison County. I’m well known as “The Ice Queen” among friends but this book had me absolutely sobbing. I’m so glad I read the book before seeing the film though as the movie was a bit of a let down.

Having bawled through the inevitable ending of “Marley and me” I have no idea what possessed me to go to the movies to watch it. I vividly remember around 20 fully grown adults with tears tripping them at the end of it. Never again, lesson learned!

I feel a bit more normal now others have said the same!

A Monster Calls

Anne of Green Gables when Matthew dies

That's the one that will always make me cry.
Also, Hamnet, and Year of Wonders (a novel of the Plague) by Geraldine Brooks.

Oh, another one. James Patterson “Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas”. I don’t really rate him as a crime author, but this one is in a wildly different genre and I’m a mess every time.

Loads of these but another vote for Hamnet. Literally a good hour of sobbing which I didn’t anticipate

I'm a sucker for cheesy tragic YA fantasy...
https://www.theyashelf.com/ya-books-that-will-break-your-heart-and-stomp-on-the-pieces.html

Yes I cried at that

Also Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

On Chesil beach. Spoilt one of my day's in Majorca years ago

The Salt path

Probably more I can't remember?

Oh God I wanted to shoot Marley. I've only seen the film but what a pain he was. (Disclaimer I would never really hurt a dog) but I didn't cry.

I did get emotional over A dog's tale. Think that was it's name.

Never let me go.

Loads! Monica Dickens’ Follyfoot
A little princess

and kids books: Guess how much I love you
polar Express - when the little boy says at the end that Santa’s bells fall silent for everyone but those who believe - it makes me sob. Just makes me think of my dc growing up. Which they have!!

The most recent one I have cried at is Linda Green’s In Little Stars. Fabulous book!

This is going to hurt.

What? No! I never read it like that. I’ll have to reread it with that perspective and break my own heart!

Never Let Me Go, it really got to me
As a child, Black Beauty
No Matter What by Debi Gliori. I bought it for my son when he was little to help him understand a loss. It's a beautiful book.

I cry a lot at books but the stand out ones:

The Book Thief - I had to go downstairs so I could howl alone on the sofa
The Child in Time - burst into tears on a tube platform
The Amber Spyglass- cried on a commuter train to the bemusement of the business men opposite.
Rilla and Anne's house of dreams (and obviously Avonlea/GG as well)
A self pinned memoir by a holocaust survivor - The Survivors Path - has a line that haunts me 30 years after I read it
Code name Verity

And so many more...

Also On the Night You Were Born. So soppy but such lovely memories.

The hand that first held mine
Hamnet
Tess of the D’Urbervilles

The Book Thief
Audrey Rose

Every last one by Anna Quindlen and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah