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 Netherworld by George Gissing.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky by Patrick Hamilton

Goodbye Mog brings a pricking I have to hold back when reading to children.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Cunningham

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN. OBVIOUSLY!!

Oh and Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner.

That does for me every single time.

Oh if we're bringing kids books into it, Love You Forever. I challenge ANYONE to read that and not think 'this is a bit weird' whilst making huge gulpy sob noises.

I was right about From Sand and Ash. It took until the second to last chapter, but my goodness it made me cry.

The Paper Dolls

sparrow yes to a monster calls. I launched the book across the room when I finished and wept

Goodnight Mr tom is a real weepy

Wonder
The Book Thief
The Fault In Our Stars
Birdsong
Little Women

Goodbye Mog.

The Mighty. It's a older kids book, but I saw the film first which made me blub and then read the book. It's lovely, but sad.

Great thread!

Loads that have already been mentioned.

I read 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' at uni and bawled my eyes out. Really opened my eyes to the horror of slavery. Also 'The Hiding Place' as a teenager, set in a concentration camp, again a massive education.

I made the mistake of reading David Nicholls' 'One Day' on a flight and massively embarrassing myself, think snot, sobbing etc

Captain Corelli read it in Kefalonia and had driven past one of the fields.

The color purple

Charlottes Web

Marking so I can get some of these tomorrow...
Also agree re The Lovely Bones
Me Before You

Gardens in Jenin (and A thousand Splendid Suns, but not as much).

Goodnight Mr Tom
Black Beauty
What Katy Did
Pollyanna

The Horse Whisperer.... I slung that book across the garden!

One Day

Gone With The Wind (I was 11 and I just LOVED that book, but boy did it make me sob)
Light Between Oceans
Me Before You

A friend texted me last week to say she had just finished The Penguin Lessons. I have never seen her cry, ever, but she cried at the end of that one!

I forgot to say We are all made of Stars.
I was crying my eyes out from the first chapter!
It's about a nurse who works in a hospice and takes the last letters from the patients.
Heartbreaking.

I cry really easily, but I also read a lot of nonfiction. I cried when I read first they killed my father by luong ung, sorry, I can't spell her name. Anyway, she lived through the Khmer Rouge genocide and she wrote a few books. I also cried when I read Sarah's key.

If anyone is as soppy about their dog as I am, Lily and the Octopus made me sob my heart out.

War Horse
Lovely Bones