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Books that make you cry

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lilyevans · 15/02/2015 09:38

I love books, but only two have ever made me cry - A little princess , and Harry potter and the deathly hallows. Feel like having a good weep, what do you recommend?

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Davegrohlsgirl · 15/02/2015 09:39

I've just finished Me before You by Jojo Moyes....sobbed at the end, it want pretty.

MollyMaDurga · 15/02/2015 13:02

Timbuktu by Paul Auster. I cried buckets. I rarely cry about books, this may even be the only one. Oh no, Dobby made me cry too!

ApplesTheHare · 15/02/2015 19:33

The Knife of Never Letting Go had me sobbing in meetings at work for a week!

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 15/02/2015 20:05

Too many. I've howled all the way through, 'The Deathly Hallows', every single time I've read it (maybe 6?).

The Green Mile

King's final Dark Tower book has me in bits every time.

macnab · 17/02/2015 14:57

"Blackbird" by Jennifer Lauck

"A thousand splendid suns" by Khaled Hosseini

"The Kitchen House" by Kathleen Grissom

"Beach Music" by Pat Conroy

"Choke Chain" by Jason Donald

All are beautifully written and will leave you sobbing and heaving for breath! well, they did me anyway!

macnab · 17/02/2015 15:01

and how could I forget "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy! Now that will make you bawl like a baby!

Thumbwitch · 17/02/2015 15:03

The Kite Runner made me cry but not in a good way at all. Fucking awful.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 17/02/2015 15:06

I liked, 'The Kite Runner' but loathed his others.

matchstickpopper · 17/02/2015 15:09

"After You'd Gone" by Maggie O'Farrell. Agree re:" The Road" but have to say, do NOT read that book if you are already feeling depressed...it makes you want to kill yourself.

maleenteringfemalefacilities · 17/02/2015 15:13

Apples my brother refused point blank to read the next two books after that particular part of the first one (and he managed a bookshop at the time and is a voracious reader - a book has to be dire, or do something awful, for him to refuse to read on).

Oscar Wilde's fairy tales make me sob. Bought them years ago for DD, having forgotten how much they affected me. She read them in the back of the car - we had to stop halfway home on the forecourt of a garage for her to climb into the front seat for a hug till she stopped weeping!

IHaveBrilloHair · 17/02/2015 15:18

Never let me go.
Big snotty sobs
I watched the fim of the kiterunner the other week ehen having a bad day, bloody terrible idea that was

mmack · 17/02/2015 15:38

I was sobbing hysterically at the end of After You'd Gone. My children were still small then and I had to turn on Cbeebies and hide in another room for a while. My dd had a good cry at The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton recently.

sliceofsoup · 17/02/2015 15:41

I read Me Before You by Jojo Moyes a couple of weeks ago and cried so much.

I cry at most things though.

Sootgremlin · 18/02/2015 19:09

Black Beauty

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

A Tale of Two Cities

There is a bit in Anna Karenina, where Levin is thinking and musing on faith and the existence of God that made me misty-eyed.

End of Middlemarch.

His Dark Materials.

(Winnie The Pooh, Dogger and Annie Rose is My Little Sister)

I'm sure there are others. Recently the Testament of Mary had me choking back a tear.

Cheshireblue · 18/02/2015 20:01

Another vote for Me before You - Jojo Moyes and also The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes - Anna McPartlin

SparkyUK · 18/02/2015 22:11

Of Mice and Men. Every. Single. Time
(and quite short so if you want a good cry now, you could have one within a few hours!)

melonribena · 18/02/2015 22:15

The Book Thief, when her little brother died, just awful

Star21 · 18/02/2015 22:15

The storyteller by Jodie Picoult about the holocaust.

ShadowSpiral · 18/02/2015 22:27

Sarah's Key by Tatiana del Rosnay was the latest one to make me cry.

10 yr old Sarah and her family are Jews living in Paris in 1942. When the French police come to arrest them, Sarah locks her little brother in a cupboard in their bedroom and promises to come back for him. It's very sad in places.

NadiaWadia · 21/02/2015 14:35

Talking of holocaust books I would recommend Sophie's Choice by William Styron. I read it many years ago and can never get it out of my head. It's very tragic.

kellyandthecat · 21/02/2015 14:37

totally agree with sootgremlin : Captain Corelli's Mandolin

i was in floods at parts but also laughing like a mad woman. don't think there's been a book that's ever given me such varied emotions

Pinkglow · 21/02/2015 20:44

The Road Sad

JoyceDivision · 21/02/2015 20:53

The casual vacancy Blush

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Yep. Still a spoiler....>>.>

The bit where Robbie has died, and while the girl who rescued him (but didn't care about herself) has her family finally doing what they should have done ages ago, listen to her and support her, it said nobody came to visit robbie in his cold metal drawer

It had me blubbing at teh shitness of it all and the fact that probably happens a lot.. Sad

youngestisapyscho · 21/02/2015 20:58

The Horse Whisperer had me in tears.... Film was a load of shit and they completely changed it!

solitudehappiness · 23/02/2015 19:18

Just finished reading Liberty Silk by Kate Beaufoy. Beautiful, poignant romantic and compelling. Follows the lives of three women. Made me cry several times. Very highly recommend it.