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....

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and LITTLE WOMEN

Expat - I had no expectations when I picked it up. One of my favourites - although I am not sure I'll reread it, like I do the Power of One!

oh I know, Persuasion by Jane Austen

That made me bawl. The bit at the end where she says she doesn't claim women love more than men, just that they love when all hope is gone.

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After you were gone

bridges of madison county, Read it years ago but would love to read it again.

Lovely Bones for me too, cried whilst read it on the bus on the way to work and noticed people trying to look to see what I was reading.

An Equal Music made me sob - but that had a lot to do with what was going on in my life at that time.

bagsundereyes - The Unbearable Lightness of Being made me so angry I had to throw the book out of the window...

Angela' Ashes- very depressing

The Time Traveller's Wife had me really weeping - I used to read it in the bath and get out four hours later stone cold and crying my eyes out!

Lovely Bones is sad, but I never finished it because I found it too damn depressing!

yep, TTW and also that one by Julie Myerson where a girl aged about 9 who has just started to become "difficult" dies, that was heartbreaking

Angela's Ashes - yes, bucketfuls.

Children's book that gets me the most: "Guess How Much I Love You". The last page has me weeping like an idiot EVERY single time!

Engleby by Sebastian Faulks.
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Bastard out of Carolina by June Allyson

and I think also The Lovely Bones as someone has already mentioned...

(all child related passages)

Ok. I'm really shallow I know, but the bit when Sailor dies, in Jilly Coopers' 'Riders' gets me every time!!!

ok, can we have books that have made you belly laugh now??
I've just ordered some of the ones people have talked about, and I need to order some antidotes or I will be a wet pool of cryingness

Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon (yes, the guy from Father Ted). Wept with laughter, through the whole first half of it.

A Wrinkle In Time, when I was about 7

the lovely bones. god that was harrowing

Never got into the lovely bones, have birdsong and keep meaning to start it......future homemakers of america made me cry, so much anticipation and frstration.

the red tent