Is it wrong that the only book to ever make me cry proper real tears . . .

[TheCountessOlenska]

is Black Beauty

However many times I read it! And also, at several different points in the story!! (Ginger off to the knackers yard, Black Beauty's ruined knees, when James says "why it's our old Black Beauty from Orchard Farm, I'd know that star on his forehead anywhere" etc etc)

I don't even like horses that much

The last page of Watership Down, I haven't looked at it for years (10, 20?)

One chilly, blustery morning in March, I cannot tell exactly how many springs later, Hazel was dozing and waking in his burrow. He had spent a good deal of time there lately, for he felt the cold and could not seem to smell or run so well as in days gone by. He had been dreaming in a confused way something about rain and elder bloom when he woke to realize that there was a rabbit lying quietly beside him -- no doubt some young buck who had come to ask his advice. The sentry in the run outside should not really have let him in without asking first. Never mind, thought Hazel. He raised his head and said, "Do you want to talk to me?"
"Yes, that's what I've come for," replied the other. "You know me, don't you?"
"Yes, of course," said Hazel, hoping he would be able to remember his name in a moment. Then he saw that in the darkness of the burrow the stranger's ears were shining with a faint silver light. "Yes, my lord," he said, "Yes, I know you."
"You've been feeling tired," said the stranger, "but I can do something about that. I've come to ask whether you'd care to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you and you'll enjoy it. If you're ready, we might go along now."
They went out past the young sentry, who paid the visitor no attention. The sun was shining and in spite of the cold there were a few bucks and does at silflay, keeping out of the wind as they nibbled the shoots of spring grass. It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses.
"You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be all right -- and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean."
He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.

SOB SOB from the age of 10 and even now into my 40s...

the end of 'Love in the time of Cholera'

That's beautiful cartblanche

I've only read Watership Down the once, years ago, have never been able to face it again! Might see if I can get it on my kindle

cartblanche You've got me going at that. Haven't read that for years. I sincerely wish and hope that death is like that for humans too. Peace and love!

I hope that when I die, it is like the last page of watership down. But not in a burrow, obviously.

chubfuddler

'family' by susan hill. I must have read this about 12 times but I really really cry everytime she recounts Imogen dying. So so brilliantly written.

I won't read books which I think will make me cry so have never read Black Beauty or Watership Down...

The last book in the His Dark Materials trilogy made me cry like a baby - I was soooo sad for Will and Lyra, and also the part where they had to separate from their daemons. I felt their pain.

I am also slightly to admit that New Moon made me cry, a lot, the first time I read it. When I re-read, after having read the rest of the books and realising what a manipulative controlling creature Edward is I just got angry with Bella for being so sad.

Well,a burrow might be quite comforting and womb-like,ChubFuddler yes/no?

Sounds like the end of The Once and Future King by TH White - an old Arthur in his tent at before the battle of Camlann,where we know he is going to die - sniff- remembering his childhood and all the animals Merlin showed him,and then Merlin comes ,after years away.... this reduced me to tears as a teenager,to such an extent that my Mum appeared from her room (was reading late at night in bed) to ask me whatever was wrong! I think she was expecting proper teenage angst,not "Sob,sob Arthur,sob Merlin....it's so sad...!"
Actually the thought of the Elves leaving Middle Earth forever and knowing I would never see one,ever,now, made me all weepy.Luckily not out loud as I was in a Maths lesson at the time.

Am I the only one that cried when reading the harry potter books?

I considered name changing for this clanger on my first foray into adult fiction, but will wear my shame with a sort of honest pride.

I cried my eyes out reading Jilly Cooper's Pandora when Visitor the Labrador dies on the mean streets of London and poor, blind and homeless Alizarin doesn't even realise because it's so cold anyway.

To read aloud:
The end of Danny The Champion of The World.
The end of Little House in the Big Woods

I cry in Behind the Scenes at the Museum, when she talks about putting her sisters in the Lost Property Cupboard of Life, and also at 'I am the goose girl, I am the true bride, I am Ruby Lennox still'.

DP always got misty at a book by Quentin Blake called 'The Green Ship' - anyone know it? I can make him go just by saying 'and Mrs Tredegar doesn't seem to mind....'

I cried when Cedric Diggory died. Not in the film, but in the book when dumbledore is talking about him.

and when hedwig died

-- - the end of Harry Potter when his parents come and talk to him and walk with him when he is going to Voldemort who he knows will kill him.

I cried at Harry Potter too, particularly when Hedwig died.

The part in Rilla of Avonlea where Jem's reunited with Little Dog Monday.

Had me sobbing on the tube.

Yes, the end of his dark materials made me and DH cry.

The last HP a bit, but I his DM is much more grown up and the characters more developed.

I get a Really scratchy voice when I read peepo

Ahem

Ahh sorry this is in adult fiction

I cried when Sirius died in HP. & when Dumbledore died, & when Dobby died.
I'm a right soppy sod anyway though.

Requiem for a Wren by Neville Shute. I read this aged 14 and sobbed on my mum for ages! I've re-read it many times and have always cried. Quite a few of his books make me cry actually (The Rainbow and The Rose, On The Beach).

I knew this would be about Black Beauty! sets me off every time.

Also Warhorse, The Lovely Bones, and the final Harry Potter book, when Harry is looking at Snape's memories. Actually, looking at my book shelf, there are a lot of books that set me off, I am clearly an utter feebo!

Goodnight Mr Tom.Just about all of it.

Little Jo's death in Dickens's Bleak House as he falteringly repeats the Lord's Prayer has me in tears every time.

The end of Middlemarch:

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

But the one that always gets me, even thinking about it, is The Railway Children

'My daddy! my daddy'