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

[BBBee]

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

Lovely Bones - Alice Seabold. Not a good book to read whilst on packed commuter train (sniff) and that was before I had mummy hormones - God knows what I'd be like now...

Yet another book blubber here- though I'm going to try out some of the ones above - see if I can train myself to be made of sterner stuff!

Just finished and utterly impartial history of britain by John O'Farrell, and cried all through WWII....despite the comic asides.

Oh,Chonky,how weird,was just about to post Blue Sky July.I heard it first on R4 and then had to buy the book.I wept buckets.(I think it coincided with realising dd was never going to be aa NT child.)

The Amber SpyGlass - I have read it many times now and cry every time on the river leaving the daemons

My sister's keeper.

Grapes of Wrath

Harry Potter

Probably many others too but they are the ones that stand out.

Oh, I think a few times in the Robin Hobb Assassins/Fools ones.

My Best Friends Girl by Dorothy Koomson had me in absolute torrents of tears, it was fabulous and really made me value my dh and my friends.
Amazing book!

wrinklytum, my copy arrived from Amazon today, and am already ploughing through it, nodding my head at pretty much everything she writes .

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult - I ended up with tears gathering in my ears while lying on my side reading in bed!

Love Life by Ray Kluun,don't be mislead by the title, from page2 right till the end and proper crying. Shittiest but also best book I have read in a long time.

ditto The Amber Spyglass
ditto The Time Travellers Wife (read in hospital before dd2 was born - I was actually sobbing out loud and the midwife came in to see if I was Ok )
ditto To Kill a Mockingbird last page
ditto Of Mice and Men last page

The last two I usually read with a class of hormonal 15 year olds and I can't get my words out because I'm blarting so much

Same goes for a school Key Stage 3 text called 'Buddy' about a boy whose Dad loves Buddy Holly: the last paragraph is the chorus to 'Everyday' by Buddy Holly and when I read it I usually try to sing that bit but can't because i'm crying. My pupils think I'm a sad old boot (I wonder why)

insomnia by stephen king. bizarre really, as he's not the sort of author you imagine crying to, but i was on holiday and so glad of my sunglasses!
oh, and can't get through guess how much i love you to DS without a lump in my throat every time - DH too!

oh, yes and definitely blue sky july! what an amazing woman and son.

Birdsong by Sebastiab Faulks, made me sob!
Also, as a child, one of the Susan Cooper books about the second world war but I cant remember its name, plus Kes.

Mrs Recycle, who on earth is Judy Pinochet?

Did you mean Jodi Picoult

Oh yes Pannacotta, Birdsong was amazing, read it before the history one which may explain blubbing above.

Yes Best Friends Girl too.

The book thief it is the first book that ever made me cry.

I am reading we need talk about Kevin , and thats really intense too.

To Kill A Mocking Bird

After You'd Gone (Maggie O'Farrell)

Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (when Bert Baxter died and the last one when Adrian had a baby with Daisy)

Call the Midwife (can't remember author)

Charlotte's Web

Anne of Green Gables (Matthew dying)

Of Mice and Men

Loads more prob - am going to read whole thread and see!!

Bridges over Madison County and Marley and Me!

Thousand Splendid Suns & Kite Runner made me blub..

Diary of Anne Frank...

Marley and Me, fabulous book,

Best Friend's Girl made me cry with frustration and anger that I'd paid out good money for such a pile of tripe

another vote for of mice and men.

i cried on the bus!

I remeber crying when reading All Quiet on the Western Front as a teenager but I hope everyone would.

Beloved by Toni Morrison

God I've forgotten the most recent one we've read at school: Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. OMG, I wept buckets when I read it at home before teaching it and then when we got to the last few chapters in class I was sobbing, accompanied by a good handful of the kids as well!

I defy anyone to read it without blarting.

Can i be a sad git and say Watership down?

Honestly, it was years ago when i read it but when the old rabbit dies at the end [gulp]