I want to cry big real tears at a book please!

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Just that. Can be proper literature or supermarket chick lit. But I want to need tissues.

YY to attonement for tears.

Elizabeth is Missing made me absolutely sob, but I don't know if you need an elderly relative for that one too being on the tears or if it'll do it for anyone. Amazing book, really really good.

Boy in Striped Pyjamas. Have never cried so much at a book.

Yy to Goodnight Mr Tom. Read it many times but always gets to me.

Sarah's key

I Had to keep stopping to sob. Was on the train

another vote for a tree grows in Brooklyn- made me laugh and cry

Sister by Rosamund Lupton.

I sobbed on the tube reading this, which is not at all like me!

The End of the Affair - Graeme Green
The Road - Cormac McArthy
Captain Correlis Mandolin - name escapes me
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (not the film!)
Dumbo. I know its a film, but I can't even think about Dumbo.

Little Women, obviously.

Kes.

Oh yes, Goodnight Mr Tom is a killer.

WHen the wind blows...bawled my eyes out!

The Light Between Oceans. I can't remember the author though. Definitely worth a read.

A man called Ove - lovely book. Soaked my pillow sobbing.

My DH sobbed his way through The Book Thief recently.

Marley and Me is actually tragic.

I also sobbed through The Yearling many moons ago.

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

Love life- ray kluun

A monster calls - Patrick ness

I have downloaded all the recommendations and am going to spend months howling! Fab! Thanks so much for these, I'll update as I sob!

The Light Between Oceans
All the Light We Cannot See
Sarah's Key
The Girl on the Cliff
Me Before You
The Casual Vacancy

All been suggested but agreeing!

Whoever recommended Five Children..... Just read it. Loved it, but yes really weepy in places. Must re-read the originals now.

If The Spirit Moves You by Justine Picardie
Blue Light by Joan Didion
These are non-fiction. They WILL make you cry.

Goodness I must be hard hearted Mr Pip and The Kite Runner just irritated me.

Atonement is the only one mentioned which made me cry.

The Grapes of Wrath was so sad I don't think I could re-read it.

Or either of Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees or The Way the Crow Flies.

It's a short story but Guy de Maupassant's Boule de Saif.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

Another vote for Kes.

Lovely to see a pp mention Willy Russell's The Wrong Boy.

Not read the whole thread, so apologies for overlap. These made me howl (some more than once!):

The Book Thief
The Kite Runner (hate his other books though)
The Harry Potter books from the 5th one onwards
King's Dark Tower series - big, real tears over and over again
Goodnight Mr Tom
The Grapes of Wrath (have never been able to bring myself to re-read it)

Just read the thread and have ordered, 'Five Children on the Western Front.' Fingers crossed for a good weepy read!

Gone With The Wind
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

Another vote for A Man Called Ove, which had me laughing out loud at points where I wasn't choking back the tears. A really brilliant book.

Forgot about a couple - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, and The Help.