what book did you engage with so much that it made you cry?

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sometimes you feel like the author is tugging at your heart strings for no reason and then other times they just really get you.

Loads as well and By Grand Central Station was one of them. Recently, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

squiffy..had forgotten about the john diamond one. brilliant book.

Oh The Book Thief made me cry too (and I hated it when I started reading it). The Red Tent is my No.1 Book To Make You Weep (I sobbed). A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Kite Runner. Half of a Yellow Sun. Purple Hibiscus (I'm just looking at my bookshelf - I gotta get me some happy books )

Oh, and the Ruth Picardie one - Before I Say Goodbye - I had to give that one away, it was so wrenchingly sad.

Of mice and men

The vanishing act of Esme Lennox

"Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" was a shameless tearjearker, but I can cry watching Dog Borstal, so anything really! I read a copy of The Other Hand by Chreis Cleave, due out this month, about a young refugee from Nigeria and how her life collides with a young London middle-class family with tragic consequences, and that was a total killer: keep a look out for it!

I've just finished Wife in the North, devoured it in a couple of days!
Utterly brilliant writing.
Wept and laughed.

Best book i've read in AGES!

ps I love you is a real tear jerker I thought it was fabulous

I enjoyed the book too fm. They appear to have ruined the film tho.... i started to watch it and it wasnt the same as the book! Shame really as i think Gerard Butler is hot!!
I also crid reading Justine Picardies book and Sara Paynes book about when Sarah was murdered. I was reading it on the train and had to stop as i was crying and people were staring!!

Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy)

Time Traveller's Wife here too. I sat in bed reading the ending and crying, with DH laughing at me.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - this had me in tears several times.

Erm, the last Harry Potter book

And loads of other things - I used to cry when there was a wedding in Neighbours, so it doesn't take much

we need to talk about kevin , also Little women when beth dies ( well it made me cry as a chidl now i think beth character rather soppy and pathetic) "I don't know how she does it" made me cry because the main character could have been me and i was so relieved to know i wasn't the only mother who felt the way i did. also my best friends girl

I cry at everything!
this includes HP and Narnia- the last one.

I cried at Toast which I just finished this morning.
I do cry at anyhting though

I cried at Wuthering Heights, and these two arn't fiction, but I cried at The Little Prisoner and all of Dave Pelzer's books.

Also, I cried at Trumpet.. did anyone else?

I cried at Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult but that was because it was far too graphic about things and made me uncomfortable then it was because I could just relate so much to what the Mother did and wanted to jump into the book and gibve her a hug!!!

Another one for the book blubbers' corner here. I can remain stony-faced and withered of duct through even the most shamelessly manipulative movie, but get me engrossed in a good read and I'll be in bits at some point or other.

The Amber Spyglass - I cried constantly through the last four chapters, also I cried at Northern Lights when Lyra and Pan think they're going to be separated.

Behind The Scenes At The Museum - both times I read it, at exactly the same place (when the therapist says "And what about poor Ruby?")

Firestarter, every time I've read that.

A lovely old-fashioned but eccentric children's book called The Wind On The Moon.

I'm sure there's more

Diana by R.F. Delderfield. (Nothing to do with the princess BTW)

A beautiful novel about two people who met as children and spent their lives not realising (or admitting) that they were in love.

Another blubber here. All Thomas Hardy's novels make me cry. And I'm with everyone here too on Wuthering Heights and the Railway Children. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks also does it. I haven't read The Time Traveller's Wife, but will do now, knowing it's a weepy!

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I don't usually cry at books [squares manly shoulders] but Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides may have illicited a tear of two.

And Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

And the Kite Runner, come to think of it.

And a Prayer for Owen Meany.

ah yes Mallory forgot that one, was weeping buckets at man and Boy

Anne of Green Gables (when Matthew dies)
Before I Say Goodbye - Ruth Picardie
When the Crocodile eats the Sun - Peter Godwin
Blue Sky July - Nia Wyn