Books that made you cry?

[jamiesam]

I've just re-read Birdsong and really enjoyed having a good sob. Am keen to read another weepy and looking for recommendations (ps am pg so inclined to be more emotional than normal )

I wasn't that keen on The Island. I thought that the plot was good but I found the writing a bit plodding tbh.

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell.

I was reading this on the train and when I got up (having missed my stop by miles) I was weeping buckets and I couldn't stop! And now that you've started this thread I need to find it and read it again! Sob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FMF - couldn't get the image of that scene in Jude out of my head last night. Old Father Time - God bless him...

Hannahs Gift, will break your heart, true story written by her mother after her daughter has died of cancer, had me sobbing out loud. there is another book by jeannie brewer that i cant remember the title of , but her partner dies of aids ,thats real sad.

forgot a child called it etc by dave pelzer sooooo sad makes you want to hug your kids tighy and never let them go

The most recent has to be We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Before I say goodbye, by ruth picardie. She was a guardian(?) journalist who died of cancer but it's her articles and letters about the cancer process. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I've never cried so much at a book.

Second Marslady's suggesion of After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell. Also read it on a train and cried and cried.

Trying desperately to read We Need To Talk About Kevin at the moment, but I just can't get into it.

I agree with Jacsmums - The Kite Runner was the most gut-wrenchng book I've ever read!!!

If I feel like they're going to be tear-jerkers, I put them down, tbh.

Who needs a downer?

I was forced to read tear jerkers in high school and at uni and it always peeved me to no end.

Thomas Hardy. I used his tomes to kill roaches in my dorm room. All that fatalistic, depressing lot of schlock. Think he had only one book that didn't involve everything going to shit and tragic deaths.

"Done because we are too many."

Who needs a downer????

lol

The Railway Man - Eric Lomax
Autobiography of POW in WW2

Birdsong, although its been ages since I read it, maybe will reread it soon.
Captain Correllis Mandolin.Ditto.
Wasnt that taken with Time Travellers Wife.
Havent read anything fantastic this year actually, last years best book was The Shadow of the Wind, fantastic parallel narrative and very satisfying ending.

twinsetandpearls - I'm with you on "Brothers" by Bernice Rubens

The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell made me LOL and cry

Toast by Nigel Slater

Charlotte Grey is even more grim and tragic than Birdsong.

Lay in bed sobbing quietly into the dark for hours after reading the bit where the two brothers....

Just awful.

Orlando have Charlotte Gray and never got into it, so is it worth persevering with?

P.S. I love you
Best book I have read in ages.
I laughed and cried and thats not like me over a book

I'd recommend The Lovely Bones & The Time Travellers wife, both Fabulous books

we need to talk about kevin-took me an age to read it-very slow to start with but I thought it was an amazing book-I am still traumatised by it!

It is, mt, in lots of ways. I found it interesting and absorbing because it stays with you for ages and is very much more than it seems on the surface iyswim. But there's one aspect of it that's just plain harrowing. And at the end of it all you don't really have the comfort of thinking, 'oh well, it's just fiction...'

Like everyone else, the Time Traveller's Wife, also A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. In fact the friend who gave it to me specifically wrote 'This will make you cry' in the front, which was thoughtful...

must admit, I hated Time Traveller's Wife, just couldn't get into it, I tried twice!

We need to talk about Kevin - i forgot how much that made me cry!

Kite Runner - a fantastic book (yes, and sad...)

I love a good weep, me