I want to read something really really good - that WON'T make me cry!!!

[Magneto]

I've just finished reading the Help. Bloody hell what a fantastic book but the very end actually had me sobbing (as did the bit about what really happened to Skeeter's maid).

Since I had ds I've turned into a right soppy mare, especially when it comes to children.

But I don't think it's going to be possible to find something really good if it doesn't pull on the heartstrings have me sobbing like a loon or make you angry or make you feel something is it?

Can anyone prove me wrong here?

What sort of things do you like? No use me recommending sci fi/ crime thrillers/ love story if you don't like that sort of thing?

I'm open to anything really. I haven't yet found my feet in the adult fiction world and decided what I'm into so I've been reading all sorts. sorry for he vagueness!

Farenheit 451 is good, if a bit old.
Battlefield Earth if you're into sci fi
Adrian Mole for a laugh
Clockwork Orange is good but it's not for everyone

Give me half an hour, I'm sure I can recall a few more.

I generally find Terry Pratchett books (anything with Granny Weatherwax or Sam Vimes in) a pretty good read that doesnt make me cry

The Secret Garden
Harry Potter

The Beach
The Stand
Watchers - Dean Koonts - very good.
My absolute fave is Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley

That reminds me that I want a dog named einstein

Harry potter and terry pratchett were the general theme of every book I read as a teenager, I got a bit stuck on that sort of genre and didn't know where to start to expand my tastes. Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll be trawling through amazon later

May be worth checking out Jasper Fford - surreal but also funny in a Terry Pratchett way. Neil Gaiman also good - but in a dark kind of way. The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency is light heartwarming kind of stuff. And if you liked Harry Potter, check out Rivers of London - Harry grown up and turned into a copper in London, but v tongue in cheek.

The Beach won't just make you cry, it will make you sob and snot and bawl and howl - it is one of the saddest books ever written, and just about the only one where everyone is dead at the end. There's no "last hope" or one last person, or last faint chance of rescue or salvation, they are all dead :( It's brilliant, and a wonderful book, and I love it, but it is so not something to read if you aren't in the mood for a good weep!
The three "Call the Midwife" books are a good read, by Jennifer Worth, and also Pip Grainger's books - "Not all Tarts are Apple" is first, then "Widow Ginger" is a direct sequel and "No Peace for the Wicked" and "Trouble in Paradise" have the same characters, one earlier in their lives, and one later than the other two. They are great, and funny in places, and have some lovely little twists in the plot so they're unpredictable.
Gervaise Phinn's autobiographical ones are hilarious, but avoid "All the Lonely People" unless you're after a weep - I bought it when I wanted cheering up, and thought it would be funny because his others are, and it isn't!

Oh.

I clicked on this with a view to recommending The Help!

Ummm...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Watchers is one of my favourites but it will make you cry. Worth it though.

The Tales of the City series, by Armistead Maupin.

Lovely, lovely lovely

You might shed a tear in later books if you get involved with the characters. But, they're really not teary books, on the whole.

Jeffrey Eugenides's THE MARRIAGE PLOT is absolutely great in all ways and not likely to get you in to an emotional state.

Another vote for Tales of the City! Can almost guarantee no tears - lovely and easy to read.