Books that make you cry

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Finished One last Summer at hideaway Bay in floods of tears and its left me wanting to read more emotional books. What are your top tips for tearjerkers please?

The last days of rabbit hayes by Anna McPartlin I think it is.

I am double hard. I don't cry. I sobbed through it. It's chic lit but very good. Easy to read and lovely characters.

Oh and I read Me Before You and didnt flinch. And Lovely Bones.

Summer in February, towards the end. I was sobbing so hard I could barely read. Loved it.

Also Birdsong!

Four Letters Of Love, by Niall somebody-or-other. So beautiful and sad!!! And Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I was sobbing by the end.

I'm not usually one for crying at books but Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner always makes me well up.

Our song by Dani Atkins

Oh, easy- The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I sobbed and sobbed for over an hour. It traumatised me.

I'm going on holiday on Friday and was going to take A Little Life with me. Not really holiday reading, then?!

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Just so sad when one of them dies... I missed my train stop I was crying so hard!

The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes. Just so much love. I cried from page 2.

There is moments in every one of the his dark materials trilogy. I have to read on my own when I know the sad parts are coming. (Love them and read them a lot! )

Watership Down

Another Love by Amanda Prowse. About a woman's descent into alcoholism and the effect on her husband, daughter, parents and sister

Cooper: I am reading the final book of the trilogy to my kids after reading them myself a few years ago. My voice was cracking when Lee Scoresby and Hester meet their end. And when Pan and Lyra have to part to cross the river of thingummy it's heart-rending the way it's described so I'm dreading that bit coming.

The kids are 13 and 11 and will think I'm nuts!

The Light Between Oceans.

The Book Thief

Yes agree with: After you'd gone by Maggie O'Farrell - I read it when it was pregnant and sobbed in a coffee shop. Also her book The hand that first held mine.
Also
And the mountains echoed by Khaled Hosseini. My husband wanted to confiscate it because it made me cry so much
The things we never said by Susan Elliot Wright

Another love by Amanda someone

The other love was alcohol

Sobbed from chapter one the whole way through.

()Was not a good look by the pool in center Parcs!! ))

The lovely bones was so draining. Someone stupidly recommended it to my mum a couple of weeks after my little sister was murdered and she bought it thinking it would help her in some way and she had to throw it out halfway through reading. It took me years to get the courage up to read it myself. Don't think I could ever read it again.

The great Gatsby was so sad at the end, what a silly naive man.

The hand that first held mine
We were liars
The fault in our stars
After the fall, by charity norman; as the mother of a teenaged daughter there is a scene where I was in floods of tears; then DD read it too and was so upset she had to text me to come home right now!
Atonement
A god in ruins
And yes to the last book of His dark materials
And yes, yes to that particular death in the Poisonwood Bible. It was so unfair and so unexpected

Black Beauty

Ode to Billy Joe, I read this when I was about 16 could not stop crying and I was on the train, I was a wreck

Lu223 I read A Crack in Forever years ago and cried my eyes out.
I lent it to my house mate who came down the stairs in a right state with tears all over her face saying 'Why have you done this to me?' I tried to see if the author had written anymore but she doesn't seem to have.

Marley and Me
The Fault in our Stars
The lovely Bones and
Me Before you are others that have made me cry.

Oh and The Winter Garden. Harrowing chapters about the Seige of Leningrad. I love history but was embarrassingly ignorant about that.

A Little Life. I know it's not for everyone but for me, it was perfect. Harrowing (particularly as someone who has suffered mental health problems) will leave you gasping, sobbing, choking on your own breath. But shows the depths of the human heart in regards to friendship and kindness.
All The Light We Cannot Sea
To Kill A Mockingbird
Alone in Berlin
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Burial Rites
The Book Thief
Life After Life (but don't bother with A God in Ruins)
All My Puny Sorrows

Oh god and The Poisonwood Bible. Just finished that and it makes you angry at the injustice of the whole bloody world!