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.

Abandoned by G D Griffith

We had that too - it's a memorable book! I don't think I'd like to read it again though.

Moobli. When Mike has to have Moobli put down omg.

My Sister's Keeper
Of Mice and Men
Charlotte's Web

Funnily enough all ‘children’s’ books, but read as an adult too.
Goodbye Mog (has to rad this myself, to attempt to inure myself to it before I read it to the children )
Private Peaceful
Skellig
The Little Match Girl
The Iron Man (Ted Hughes)
Just typing these out has made me sniff.....

Teas of the D'Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
Northern Lights
The Hand That First Held Mine
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

The later chapters of "Family Life" by Elisabeth Luard. It is one of my favourite books and I have read it many times, but I always tear up at that bit.

Once There Were Giants. Slays me so badly that I blub every time I read it - in class- largely I guess because it reminds me of reading it to my own kids but also because it expresses the growth of a child perfectly.

And Hangover Square, for being so unutterably sad.

I’ve never come across anyone else who knows about Skallagrigg by William Horwood - it’s mentioned twice in this thread. Heartbreaking is right, especially as I have a child with CP.

Katherine Anya Seton

Goodnight Mr Tom - read it to my son - what was I thinking, it’s horrifically sad and disturbing in parts.

Sophie’s Choice for obvious reasons

Les Miserables - Colette and Marius - selfish bastards

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3673905-what-do-you-think-are-the-saddest-scenes-passages-in-literature-general-spoiler-alert

This is the other thread running on this at the moment -- but be aware it has a general spoiler alert, because people are talking about specific scenes in novels, and in some cases go into a fair amount of plot detail.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Private Peaceful
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Home by Jo Swinney

'Wrong Rooms' by Mark Sanderson 😭😭😭
And 'After You'd Gone' by Maggie O'Farrell.

Noughts and Crosses. So powerful. The class I was teaching were so invested in the story. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room when we reached the end.