Book to make me cry..

[StressedButBlessedx]

So, this is going to sound a bit mental but I'm 26 weeks pregnant.. hormonal and recently just always feel a need to cry! I'm not unhappy, just hormonal and need something to let it out to!

Which books do you recommend for this? Last book I read was The Choice by Edith Edgar and that really broke my heart💔

The kind of thing I'm looking for is something possibly war themed? I love history. But mainly something not too far fetched. Thankyou:)

I came on to say ‘The Choice’!
God, I bawled like a baby, couldn’t speak after reading it.

@HelplessAndLost

I came on to say ‘The Choice’! God, I bawled like a baby, couldn’t speak after reading it.

Omg I was the same. It killed me😓

@HelplessAndLost

I came on to say ‘The Choice’! God, I bawled like a baby, couldn’t speak after reading it.

Have you watched umbrella academy on Netflix? One part in that literally makes me sob and I've just watched it again like an idiot😭

The Book Thief, Birdsong, Half of A Yellow Sun? x

@PairofPears

The Book Thief, Birdsong, Half of A Yellow Sun? x

Thankyou! Which of them would you suggest for this month? I get 1 free book a month on my kindle x

Yaloms most recent book called
A matter of death and life.
It’s just beautiful

He is a well known therapist that lost his wife during Covid to cancer.

It it read so empathically on audible.

Anything by Kristin Hannah! The Nightingale made me cry my eyes out.

I’m going to look it up!

@HelplessAndLost

I’m going to look it up!

The best series I've ever watched. Watching it a 2nd time now

Thankyou everyone, I'm looking into them all now

The Book Thief, I SOBBED.

Not war related but The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer made me cry more than any other book I’ve ever read

The One I Was.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I've never cried so much at a book. It's absolutely spectacular, I can't recommend it enough.

Anything by Cathy glass has always made me cry especially when I was pregnant as they are about children in foster care

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - WW1

Goodbye Mickey Mouse - Len Deighton - WW2

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell really made me sob recently.

Definitely Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks but also in that trilogy is Charlotte Gray which I couldn't finish because it was too sad

Oh I’ve thought of one, the last book I read actually- Cut by Hibo Wardere.
Absolutely harrowing.

Half a yellow sun
A thousand splendid suns

The light between oceans

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.Set in the Depression.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin had me crying in a couple of places.
The Boof Thief is a wonderful read.

Definitely Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.
And there's also a rather magical, albeit improbable birth, there too!

Haven't checked if anyone else has suggested my all time favourite book. The only one I've ever read multiple times (the second being the moment I finished the last page)

"After You'd Gone" by Maggie O' Farrell.

Oooh I think I'm going to litany to it on Audible as a school run treat now and try not to have mascara running down my chin by the time I get there