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

[karenbokaren]

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.

Oh my god I didn't know that Mog died. I just read a summary of the book and I cried on DP's chest

The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson

I just cannot read the ending out loud without my voice wobbling. DS always refers to it as ‘the book that makes mummy cry’!

Duncton Quest by William Horwood when Spindle is waiting for Bailey.

The Outsiders

Michael Rosen's Sad Book.
Incredibly beautiful child's book about death and loss. Makes me cry every time..

Little Women
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The boy in the striped pyjamas
La reine margot - alexandre dumas

RoLaren I start bubbling when lee and Hester are loading the gun . Then Hester says it's all her fault. Such a beautiful but tragic death.

Also the unknown soldier. When in 1920 thousands of women walked past the tomb of the unknown soldier, each praying it was their husband, son or brother. Heartbreaking

I second No Matter What - I read it, in its entirety at my cousins little boys naming ceremony - it is sad but in a beautiful way.
However, the first time I read it after my mum died, I cried like a baby. Very poignant.

There is a thread in chat that will help you right out but I don't know how to cut and paste links to threads 😬

I also bought Michael Rosens Sad Book to try and help my youngest understand my grief for my mum. It’a very hard to read without crying.

I actually cry more at books than I do at films/tv!

Web of Dreams by V.C. Andrews

The time travellers wife, I’ve read it at least twenty times and cry at the end, every fucking time!
Recently my teenagers found their copy of the gruffallo and asked me to read it to them before bed, apparently I do the best voices, after they had gone to bed I cried. I really thought I had read my last bedtime story years ago and getting the chance to do it one more time made me blub like a baby.

I am always happy to read Anne of Green Gables until it gets to the bt where Matthew dies. Gets me every time.
I can't read Badger's Parting Gifts. Once was enough.

The green mile by Stephen king

Adult book: the best of me
Children book: wherever you are my love will find you, charlottes web

When you were born by Emma Dodd.
I went through so much to finally get my beautiful DS and that book just makes me weepy.

Goodbye Mog is too sad for words. It's the only Mog book we don't have and I don't plan to buy it unless I have to. Please stay safe DCat!

The Paperdolls, Julia Donaldson

Quick personal plea, could posters please try to avoid spoilers? There's a book been mentioned that I'd not got around to reading that I now know what happens in.

Seeress of Kell - David Eddings
Green Mile - Steven King
Instrumental - James Rhodes

Paper dolls by Julia Donaldson wahh

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Caught me unawares on a train! 😢

Grief is the Thing with Feathers: Max Porter
After You'd Gone: Maggie O'Farrell
Inside the Wave: Helen Dunmore - an extraordinarily moving collection of poems, written when she had cancer and published after her death.

Abandoned by G D Griffith
Read it once as a child. Found it the other day, I'm now 45, turned to the last chapter and properly sobbed, and I'm hard as nails normally.

I had to stop reading In Cold Blood on a
Bus journey twenty years ago as i was crying. The woman next to me said she was so glad i stopped reading as she was watching my reactions and was dying to know what the book was.

The end of:
Time traveller’s wife - definitely
Flowers for Algernon - devastating
Remains of the day - ‘ Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.‘
Brighton Rock - ‘She walked rapidly in the thin June sunlight towards the worst horror of all’

So much said in so few words