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.

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes xx

Calling Me Home had me sobbing. I tried to read the last chapter in a cafe until I started to properly howl - had to take it home and finish it in private.

Disgrace - At the end I had to put the book down every few lines to absolutely howl.

Seconding Doomsday book. It is very sad but at the end I felt myself crying GOOD tears IYSWIM.

Loved, 'Five Children' but it didn't make me cry.

'84 Charing Cross Road' did though.

me without you by kelly rimmer - quite chick lit

I obviously have odd errr...taste or emotional barometer becuase rarely cry but 'i dont know how she does it' by alison pearce....made me weep and wepp tears of frustration and pleasure/pain at recognising myself and just how futile my life was at that time.

I also cried at 'we need to talk about kevin' shockingly sad book, and haunts me even now. But not your classic heart strings tugger...

lucysnowe I well up just thinking of poor, ugly, GOOD Father Roche and his "angel". The story wou
d have made a brilliant film, I think.

YY to 84 Charing Cross Rd too.

And, the ultimate tearjerker: Black Beauty. Poor Beauty. Poor Ginger!

We were liars by E Lockhart

I've just had to put down my copy of The Five People You Meet In Heaven as I couldn't see for crying it has utterly captivated me from the first page.

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell........ sob!

Oh Kathysclown wasn't it fabulous?!

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Sobbed during certain parts of this book too .

A Man Called Ove and the Love Song of Miss Queen Henessey, sniff...

pat conroys "beach music". I read it when pg with my son. I sobbed so much that my DH still refers to the character in the book when I am snivelling over something - "is it as bad as XXXXX" he will ask, all concerned.

I read it subsequently and it seemed so silly, but that's pregnancy hormones for you.

Another vote for Maggie O'Farrell. After You'd Gone had me sobbing into a stir fry that my DH had cooked me. And I bawled at The Hand that First Help Mine and that was before even having a baby, I think it would finish me off now.

Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey

I still think about Tatty ten years later.

A Monster Calls- big, gulping snotty sobs;
The Road- achingly lovely

Definitely The Light Between Oceans, defy anyone not to cry at it, and an easy read in a non-trashy way.

I'm currently reading A Little Life from the Booker shortlist which is making me cry but also gasp in horror. It's pretty grim but I'm finding it a very compelling read.

Things I want my daughters to know by Elizabeth Noble

My sister keeper by Jodi Picoult

The latest installment of the game of throne series but that is alot of reading just for one small chunk of crying :)

The Light Between Oceans - that ending :(. I'm really not an emotional sort of person at all, but it got to me. I was listening to it on audio book and trying to finish it sitting in the car waiting for the DC to come out of school. Big fat tears rolling down my face, can't imagine what everyone thought was going on :o

Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
Thousand Splendid suns and the kite runner. And probably a hundred others, but these are the first that spring to mind.

Another vote for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. There's one bit in it that made me cry when I was 14 and still makes me cry now.

Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Well, coming back to this thread I just finished The Fault In Our Stars last night- taking myself off to bed to devour the last 50 pages.

It was excellent, thanks to the many who recommended it, I've just downloaded his others now. I had seen it around before, loads of my teen students have read it, but I'd not considered it myself because of the teenagery thing.