In asking for books that you can't read without crying?

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Inspired by the thread about songs that make you cry, what books make you sob?

Some kids ones for me, the end of Peter Pan and Winnie The Pooh.

And anything by Nancy Tillman. It's totally calculated but I remember someone giving me a set when I was pregnant with ds and reading one at my baby shower. I was hysterical.

And The Old Woman Who Names Things. She's seen too many people die and is lonely and alone so names her her fucking chairs and appliances.

The Velveteen Rabbit.

The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders. It is difficult to say to much without spoiling it, but it is a story about love, bereavement, imagination, friendship and healing. A great read at any age, but written for children.

I can't get through the Goodbye Mog book.

Red Pony Jon Steinbeck. Makes me properly bawl.
Lion Witch and Wardrobe, just the scene where Aslan is killed, lots of sobbing.

The Little Prince by st exupéry
Inexplicably makes me sob

Also The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

The Art of Racing in the Rain. I can't get through the first chapter without sobbing.

Goodnight Mr Tom.

Love you forever, Robert Munsch, particularly when I read the story behind it and his and his wife's still born babies 😪

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.

No Matter What - beautiful book but turns sad on the flip of a page!

There’s an entire, very long thread on this running currently — called something like ‘saddest scenes in literature’.

Also The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - and The Happy Prince

Astrid Lindgren's The Brothers Lionheart. If the first chapter doesn't make you cry your eyes out you are clearly a monster.

The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter, and the Marriage of Megotta by the same author.

Also the end of the Time Traveller’s Wife

To be honest, I cry at the drop of a hat when reading anything slightly sad. Much more so than watching films or TV.

The Selfish Giant

I'd forgotten that one.

Watership Down

Charlottes Web 😭

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
No Matter What by Debbie Gliori
Goodbye Mog by Judith Kerr

And Watership Down!

Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman, when Lyra realises she's the betrayer. Devastating.

The Art of Racing in the Rain has been adapted to a movie due out about now, just fyi

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

Yes definitely.

Also the Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

Goodnight Mr Tom

The subtle knife by Phillip Pullman, when lee and Hester die.
Read that chapter last night. My partner threatened to confiscate the book!