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

Paula by Isabel Allende ... at Rome airport with lots of cool Italians. Sobbing.

Oh yes- goodnight mister Tom (just about of it) and Anne of green gables (Mathew dying) have always caused wracking sobs.

The first book I remember sobbing over was one about a chocolate brown Labrador guide dog. I think it was a true story and there may have been more than one book but I have a clear memory of sitting on the stairs aged about 10 bawling my eyes out.

Yy to Harry's family coming out of the stone- cried myself sick at that after racing through the book as soon as it came out.

Goodnight mob

'daddy, my daddy'

I cry at most things though. Am very embarrassing cinema companion

Anything by Joyce Stranger especially A dog called Gerlert I never finished it from crying too much on the train it was sooo embar.......blub blub

I had a treasured copy of Black Beauty with wrinkled pages from the amount of tears which had been shed over them, especially when Ginger dies. I cry every time I read it or see it on screen

Bright eyes makes me cry just hearing the intro bars, can't read or watch Watership Down in any shape or form! YY to Herriot, just so beatifully written I think, it gets right to the core of you

The latest sobbing my heart out moment was on a beach in Ireland on holiday reading "chosen by a horse".. Good job it was deserted except for DP and me

Definately an animal related list!

BB yes and now I have horses and adore them - they really do have the most complex personalities and relate to us humans in a miraculous way (but they adore hunting as it is playing together Anna S was wrong about that!)
But DD says 'The Running Foxes' by the great Joyce Stranger - I was reading it to her so she must have been very young and tears started pouring down her cheeks at the bit where the man is trying to get his terrier out of the badger hole and it crawls to him and dies in his arms (Sleepless in Seattle moment here) DD got quite angry and upset when I pointed out that she was crying because of the sad story as she couldn't grasp that logic (she has hardly ever cried about anything so it was unusual!)

For me it was the very last page of Watership Down - I could not believe as a child that the book ended with the death of the main character.

Personally the most powerful book I have ever read - tears plus - is a book by David Howarth that apparently every Norwegian knows called 'To Die Alone' about one man's survival ordeal after a WW2 secret assignment goes terribly wrong - appalling but an emotional rollercoaster!

I cry pretty routinely at fiction. But, Cat on the Hill (Michael Foreman), anyone? And, obviously, the death of Dobby in The Deathly Hallows. And the death of Jo the crossing sweeper in Bleak House.

I am sure I have cried over many books but the two that most come to mind are both biographies / autobiographies. They are 'Stuart - a life backwards' by Alexander Masters.(About his friendship with a homeless man)
www.amazon.co.uk/Stuart-Life-Backwards-Alexander-Masters/dp/0007200374/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341922945&sr=1-1
and 'Empty Chairs' & 'Faint Echoes of Laughter' by Stacey Danson.
www.amazon.co.uk/Empty-Chairs-Stacey-Danson/dp/1453858520/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341922834&sr=1-2
Both of these caused me to finish them in floods of tears, embarrassing when you are sitting in the local library

Just found this thread and would like to add my favourite tear jerkers.

Agree with many of the above (Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Harry Potter).

Has anyone read Love Life by Ray Kluun? Even DH shed tears, and he never cries over a book.

I'd also like to mention Wuthering Heights and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I love a good doomed love story.

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry anyone? When you realise that TJ is going to be hanged. I need to reread it for work but almost don't want to cos its so sad (but fantastic).

Also the Dicey Tillerman books when Dicey's mother is dying and she goes to buy a box to put her ashes in.

I remember crying in the school library over Cry the Beloved Country and not being able to stop.