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?

One day

The Book thief

Another for never let me go, wasn't a big fan thought it was a drag but ending was very sad

The road by cormac Mccarthy. Full on snot bubbles

All the light we cannot see
Revolutionary road
The weather in the streets

A child called it. I cried so much at that book.

Time travellers wife - the film is absolute wank, but the book had me sobbing on the balcony in Egypt at 4am because I couldn't put it down

A thousand splendid suns
The kite runner
Don't tell mummy

I'm currently reading From Sand and Ash. It hasn't made me cry yet..... but I'm sure it will before the end.

I have read and cried at almost all these books but they're all marvellous too.

Surprised no-one has mentioned I Let You Go. Made me sob on the bus about 3 pages in, and then at intervals throughout. BUT I would massively recommend it. Such a good book.

The Lovely bones by Ann Sebold.
The other hand by Christopher Cleave.
A monster calls and The crane wife by Patrick ness.

Jesus @fudgefeet just why??? I'm sorry for your poor mum it's not an easy read for someone who has never experienced something as awful as that. I'd certainly not say it was cathartic for someone who has

Oh and it's Alice sebold Christ knows where I got Ann

Time travellers wife made me weep every time I picked it up... and Me Before You as well.. I love books that bring your emotions out. I'm making a list of all those added..

Has anyone said The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom?

That's a bit of a tearjerker too.

Oh god, can't believe i didn't already mention Of Mice and Men, sobbed and sobbed at that one.

Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Sheinmann(sp?) is a great read and very sad.

Cried at the end of Light Between Oceans and also at After You'd Gone, definitely the saddest Maggie O'Farrell.

Me Before You and Lovely Bones, no I didn't cry but I didn't think either was as good as I had expected.

The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon.

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan - absolutely devastating, about a child who gets abducted and the parents grief.

Half of a Yellow sun, Chimamanda Ngozi

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain ..

I read it on holiday a few weeks ago .All was fine until the last two pages and then I realised it was actually saying pretty much exactly what I was feeling right at that moment about life and time and wha twe do with it.. ive NEVER actually cried at a book before and ive read several of those already mentioned

Ive now made firm plans to retire in a few months when Im 60..
Thank you Barney Norris

Boy in striped pyjamas. Never cried so much when reading a book. Properly traumatised afterwards.

Eleanor Oliphant. Happy and sad tears.

Based on comments here I've downloaded A Little Life and started it last night. Normally I read psychological thriller stuff and I can see that this is very very different...........

Hannah's Gift.

Non fiction. Saddest book ever.

So many brilliant suggestions. I've downloaded loads! Thank you!

Ware Horse
Me before you
My sisters keeper
Marley and me

The Love Song Of Queenie Hennesy

A beautiful, beautiful book. The side story of The Unlikely Pilgramige of Harold Fry which I hated. But Queenie Hennesy had me sat up in the night after I'd read it bawling my eyes out, I wanted to climb in the book and hug the character. It's made clear from the start she is dying, but she is wanting to write down her story and how she loved hercolleaguefrom afar and how she put up with a second best life but due to her illness she can'tspeak

It wasn't my usual.read but I would encourage everyone to read it.

MarmaladeOrange: I didn't mind Life Before Life but I loved A God In Ruins!

It is also a book that made me cry, loved how we got to see this gentle man's life and I was so involved, at the rnd I was on holiday and sat up in yhe night in the room crying!

A monster calls by Patrick Ness
Made the mistake of listening to this on a day out. I was a mess by the end people were staring as I quietly sobbed but I couldn't stop listening. When we saw it at the cinema everyone just sat quiet for a good five minutes after the film ended. Never seen that at the end of a film before.

Also Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Beautiful book.
I quite like books without a happy ending so I tend not to cry but every now and then one gets me.