what is your catch your breath / weeping / soul confirming read?

[BBBee]

mine is 'the picture of dorian gray' because if I am getting a bit shallow I read this to remind me so.

And you?

the salmopn of doubt

Birdsong

ahh but have seen your other thread - can I take this seriously?

long gark teatime of the soulo

Jude the Obscure

Mr Men get pisszed

not life confirming but def weepy was a book called between two eternities here

about a prem baby. made me sob

Of Human Bondage. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

Traction Man

Bridges of Madison County

Haven't cried reading a book since a Sweet Valley High book in my teens .

Girl died of an overdose. In my defence, I was in my early teens.

I cry at loads of things (but not as much as posts on here)

I second 'of human bondage'
and 'nectar in a sieve' by karmala markandala

Tuesday With Morrie by Mitch Albom. I cried for hours

I've just finished To Kill A Mocking Bird and cried. It really moved me

Another vote for The Girls

the grass is singing - doris lessing

"Stuart - A life Backwards" had me in floods.
To cheer me up again I would read the Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment

@yama: God I remember that SVH book. The lovely Regina Morrow, no?

Yay me too :
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Jude the Obscure

And more recently An Evil Cradling. (1993)

But try and read it. Think it changed my life in a way.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

FlossieTcake - yes Regina. She had lovely dark hair as I recall. It was a good book, wasn't it?

time travellers wife
English patient
the book thief

Me also Time Traveler's Wife.

The Lovely Bones
The Amber Spyglass
After You'd Gone
The Birthday Letters

When I was a teenager, it was Wuthering Heights ("I AM Heathcliff! He is always, always on my mind!") - loved it