Books that have made you cry

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Only one book for me.
The Kite Runner.

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell I read it when young and sobbed when Ginger died. Still get tears in my eyes when I re-read
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott. Still cry when Beth dies
The Shepherds Crown - Sir Terry Pratchett. Ugly crying because this was his last ever book

It is unremitting misery.

A Fine Balance completely destroyed me.

Half of a Yellow Sun was also devastating.

Oh, and Life and Fate.

Another vote for A Terrible Kindness! Also, for The Women and another Kristen Hannah book, Winter Garden.

The Damage Done by Warren Fellows- completely harrowing.

Porky by Deborah Moggach.

Redeeming Love and The Mark of the Lion trilogy both by Francine Rivers

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Stolen by Deborah Moggach

as a child: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Polly of Primrose Hill by Kathleen O Farrell

Shadow The Sheepdog by Enid Blyton

Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray-Williams

Time Travellers Wife
Dogger
Anna Karenina suicide scene was shocking

Also agree with A God In Ruins fling that moving

I cried at the the ending of The Help, it was when the Adalaine left the little girl who loved her more than the girls actual mother die.
I cried my eyes out 😢

As a kid I cried when Zac died in goodnight Mr Tom.

Requiem for a Wren

God yes Maggie O Farrell when her lovely boyfriend is killed in a bomb. She’s crying on the tube and an old lady says “he’s not worth it”.

Also the book about the Lighthouse keeper cannot remember the name but my god I was sobbing at that on a cross channel ferry

The Light Between the Oceans. You cannot not cry at that.

I have a disabled son, Skallagrigg by William Horwood totally broke me.

Yes, The Book Thuef!
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks, heartbreaking ending, a WW1 story that captures the sheer brutality and futility of this war.

There’s an amazing piece in hamnet when she describes the germ that is killing her son how it originated far away but is now here killing him. Was reading it in the first lock down so hit hard.

The light between oceans, I love that book, it’s one of my favourites, but it makes me cry every time.

One day by David Nicolls. I was a mess I’ve never read it again and I refused to watch the tv programme when it came out last year.

Has anyone read Freak the Mighty? My 6ft 1 DS just said this was the first book that made him cry.

Hamnet- Maggie O’Farrell
The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O’Farrell (oh Maggie how you write!)
Flowers for Algernon
Jude The Obscure

Oh goodness yes - I read it aged about 14 after seeing part of the film. I was in bits.