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:)

The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hoisseini.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.

The last two aren't war related but still emotional. I was a sobbing mess ln all of these.

I second (third?) Life after life
A little life also slayed me but it very long so you’ll probably have given birth by the time you finish it 😂
I also sobbed at the time traveller’s wife
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More votes here for...

• The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Lois de Bernier (definitely an ending to get you sobbing!)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (read about her giving birth and you'll be so very grateful for our wonderful NHS...!)

But also try these ones too...

• 3 things about Elsie by Joanna Cannon (made me sob away on a beach in Devon... It was a lovely sunny day by the seaside, but I was soo engrossed)

• Suite Française by Irène Nemirovsky (I could not stop sobbing at the end when reading about her own life.... Very tragic as her manuscript was written during WW2 but published many, many years later. Continuous blubbering about an hour later... )

Definitely the book thief. I've read it twice and had a wet pillow both times. Also, All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr is brilliant.

@hotdogsjumpingfrogs A monster calls had me in absolute bits, I was silently sobbing trying not to wake my husband! I'm welling up now just thinking of it

Another vote for A Little Life. Also Lullabies for Little Criminals and American Dirt.

I was on a packed commuter train when I got to the end of My Sisters Keeper. I remember not being able to contain the tears. Not the best book I’ve ever read but definitely the saddest.

Definitely "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. I read it years ago and still think about it from time to time.

Thankyou so much everyone!!

The nightingale and World War related.

Cricket 'a tale of humble life' by Silas Hocking

You can get second hand ones. It's a real tear jerker about Victorian Liverpool and the workhouse.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
All brilliant and heartbreaking books that have been made into brilliant and heartbreaking movies.
I love a good sob, me, but my hormones are down to menopause. I'm crying at most things tbh