what book has made you cry?

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last night reading alound voice kept cracking at end of half blood prince - got me thinking...

time travellers wife
birdsong
of mice and men
private peaceful

those are all I can remember for now - must be more....

too many to mention.

I can remember definitley sobbing at
Goodnight Mr Tom
Atonement
Birdsong
Jude the Obscure (TOP fave blub fest)
The Plague Dogs
Precious Bane
The Regeneration trilogy
His Dark Materials
Flowers fo Algernon (Lovely to see that on here!!)
Grapes of Wrath
Wild Swans
Angela's Ashes
and yes, the last Harry Potter...

oh and I cried at Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett recently

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I read 'The disappearing act of Esme Lennox' by Maggie O Farrell while on holiday. Good job I had big sunglasses as was crying away on the sunlounger. Excellent book.

Thank god, PFMV - someone else who's cried at a Terry Pratchett book.

I cried at Men At Arms, The Fifth Elephant & Night Watch

Also The Subtle Knife, a few of the HP books, Charlotte's Web & Anybody Out There?

I cry at the happy bits as well as the sad bits though - DH thinks I'm weird.

The worst I can remember is reading a book on the Glencoe massacre & sobbing my heart out when it got to the massacre itself. DH tried to get me to put the darn book down but I'd ploughed through all the background of political intrigue so felt I had to finish it. Thing is, I already knew it wasn't going to have a happy ending

The Lovely Bones

(brilliant book though!)

I read 'The Lovely Bones' on a far too hot holiday in Crete.
Sex got in the way of sentiment.
And I'm glad. Them were the days.

I read it last year mainly in the middle of the night with a baby glued to my chest and then the tears really did flow.

Goodbye Mog - it's such a beautiful book. The last page always gets me.

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck is without a doubt the saddest book I've ever read. I can hardly bear to think about it.

Don't know how I could have omitted this - the one I am writing. In fits and starts. Mostly it is tears of frustration.

Johnny alone is good book cry every time i read that,
Cynthia Voight has done some amazing books diceys song books about a girl who looks after her younger siblings when her mom leaves them theres whole load of them about dicy and her family.
Dave pelzar books also make me cry,
I am a very tearfull person and a book that makes me cry does me the world of good

The last book I cried at was Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes. It took me months to get into it but on holiday I read the last two thirds of it and I was blubbing away behind my glasses by the pool. My husband had to go and get me some tissues.

It's the last bit really where she has a baby and also where Stephen gets rescued by the Germans.

I bet everyone read this book years ago - I'm always the last to read anything.

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman as well also made me cry - it's a children's book that was in the BBC Big Read. I can't believe I haven't read the other two in the trilogy yet.

Any children's picture book by Martin Waddell. Especially "There are Giants in our House" and "The Big Big Sea"
Good Wives
The Ann of Green Gables one when the baby dies.

A Child in Time, the first chapter when he has to go home and tell his wife. I was pregnant, but even so I don't think I could bear to read it now, after recent events.

"lovely bones"

can't wait to see what Peter Jackson makes of it.. [smile}

dick whittington

Oh no, I just bought Birdsong but won't start reading it yet as it's mentioned here at least 3 times... I'm 37 weeks pg and highly hormonal - I read Charlotte Gray a month ago and couldn't stop crying for a whole weekend about the two boys - and had a week of terrible sleepless nights because of it. DH thought I'd lost my marbles. I'd better wait till I'm a bit stronger for Birdsong then...

To be honest it's only the last bit that gets you sobbing. There are some very erotic bits in it also!

I just think it's one of those books I'll always remember.

I must get Lovely Bones - it's mentioned by lots of people on here.

Lovely Bones for me too - I sobbed mny heart out., Also Tess od the D'Ubervilles and Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck

timetravellers wife, his dark materials and pursuit of love

Also Katharine by Anya Seton

The poem Aubade by Philip Larkin- if you want to see how someone writes about the inevitability of death in 30 or so odd lines, read this- it reduces me to tears every time.

Just had a look at the poem. Fantastic!!!
Thank you!

It's hardly seems right to say "glad you ENJOYED "it- but great that you've found it (it's online just google) - thanks for the post.

The Little Wooden Horse - was that the title - or Adventures of the little woodne horse - when I was about 7.

Lovely Bones and Curious incident of the dog in the night-time - bawled on the plane while reading that

The Diary Of Anne Frank

Jude The Obscure

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