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?

The Lovely Bones
Time Travellers Wife
Pet Cemetary

Of Mice and Men
The Nightingale
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Wild Swans
The Kite Runner
The Bridges of Madison County

Gone with the wind made me cry for days!

I just had to come back to this thread to say I grabbed 'The Memory Book' when I was at the library with my dc.
I ended up crying my eyes out and went to work feeling all washed out

Has anyone else read it?

All The Bright Places
The Book Thief

Lots more I'm sure but these were the most recent!

Loads of these. I cry easily. I'm proofreading at the moment and I even cried when a giant caterpillar called Bruce dies ....

Being Miss Nobody by Tamsin Winters. It belongs to my 11year old but I glanced at it and ended up reading it straight through. I was balling! It's so well written. Funny and sad too.

This week it was The Green Mile... Del and the mouse

Marley and Me nearly finished me off. And The Road was pretty harrowing

Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

The Darkest Lies by Barbara Copperthwaite. It's a thriller, but there's one part that made me put down the book and sob. Sweet mother of crap, now I'm crying again!!!!

I absolutely balled my eyes out at Testament of Youth, especially knowing it is a true story, not fiction.

Cried at plenty of fiction too!

Once
Book thief
His dark matrials
Me before you
But the most traumatising has been the shepherds crown. I've only read as far as Granny waking up and cleaning the house. I knew what was coming completely broke down and haven't been able to finish it

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

I think these are the only books that have actually made me cry.

Before I Die by Jenny Downham destroyed me, I was sobbing. Reviews described this YA read as uplifting but I definitely didn't find this the case!

Books don't usually make me cry but The Book Thief had me crying so much I couldn't see properly to read. Didn't bother watching the film as I didn't want to be disappointed.

Jesus. Just the concept of Goodbye Mog has me in tears. I didn't know that that book existed

I also have A Little Life loaded up on the Kindle and am having a rethink about that one now...

Lovely Bones
Warhorse

Miracles on the water - it's a non fiction book, based on the sinking of the City of Benares during the second world war - it was transporting evacuees to Canada. Awful tragedy that not many people have heard of but it's a good read, although heartbreaking, told by one of the ancestors of one of the survivors.

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I've re-read it over and over and it still makes me sob in the same places.

Re read his Dark materials last week on holiday and it was gut wrenching. I cried:
When they find Tony Makarios
When Lyra goes to find Roger in the land of the dead
When she and Will are separated from their daemons
When Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulter wrestle Metatron
When Balthamus and Baruch die
When Lee Scoresby and Hester die
When Iorek Byrnison fights to become King
When Lyra and Will fall in love
When Lyra and Will have to part.

I felt utterly spent when I finished the books, just like I remember being the first time round. Lyra is so fierce and proud, and Will so stoic and brave. It moves something very deep inside when I think about it. Pullman's writing is masterful and his dealing with archetypes tremendous. He created a world that is so utterly believable.

@LadyOfTheCanyon I was just going to write when Hester and Lee Scorsby died. I proper sobbed and couldn't see the page for tears.

Others that have made me cry are
One Day
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
Time Travellers Wife
The Lovely Bones
The Fault in our stars
The WarHorse
Private Peaceful
Good night Mister Tom
Things I want my daughters to know
Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

The Book Thief.

I once read a book by someone called Corrie Ten Boom, about the holocaust, and was utterly heartbroken by it. I sobbed for hours and really felt inconsolable. I could never bring myself to think about it again too much, even to find out what it was called, but I've never forgotten the experience of reading it and the terrible things those poor people went through for no fault of their own.

This thread has given me some great inspiration for future reads, so thank you OP!

His Dark Materials - read several years ago and got them from the library today to revisit. Not often I read the same books twice but these are so special. Also his new one is out soon so I wanted to remind myself!

The Book Theif
Me Before You
Never Let Me Go
Black Beauty (Ginger! wails )

Paper Dolls and Where The Wild Things are always tug at something inside me, too.