Books that make you cry

[channelthirtytwo]

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?

[Wormulonian]

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.

[Yika]

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Cunningham

[Flightywoman]

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN. OBVIOUSLY!!

[Flightywoman]

Oh and Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner.

That does for me every single time.

[Kublakhan]

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.

[BikeRunSki]

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

[BikeRunSki]

The Paper Dolls

[tickyandtackyandjackythebacky]

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

[Mulch]

Goodnight Mr tom is a real weepy

[MumBod]

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

[MumBod]

Goodbye Mog.

[Thebookswereherfriends]

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.

[Bobbybobbins]

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

[Brighteyes27]

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

[FresasAndFrambuesas]

The color purple

[Autumnchill]

Charlottes Web

[MrsBrown72]

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

[SenoritaViva]

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

[StupidSlimyGit]

Goodnight Mr Tom
Black Beauty
What Katy Did
Pollyanna

[youngestisapsycho]

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

[STRONGandSTABLE]

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!

[RightOnTheEdge]

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.

[hellokittymania]

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.

[TheHodgeoftheHedge]

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

[expatmigrant]

War Horse
Lovely Bones