What books made you cry?

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My three

Jane Eyre
The Road
Breaking Dawn

Things I want my daughters to know

My first Mumsnet post!! V excited!

The Kite Runner made my cry on a long car journey through France.

The Lovely Bones

Postcards from the Museum (or something like that - by Kate Atkinson)

Suite Francaise (but probably because Irene Nemirovsky died in the holocaust)

Oops - I've listed 4!

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A lot of books make me cry.

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden
The Amber Spyglass, especially when Hester dies
The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner

Sorry I put four, but those can make me cry just by THINKING about them, I don't even have to read them.

The book thief. tears fell on the page.
Time travellers wife
My Friend Flicka.

I'm reading Educating Rita atm (the screenplay). It makes me cry, especially as I can hear Julie Walters deliver the lines in my head as I read them.

Can't possibly name just 3, so:

The Power of One by Bryce Courtney
Time Travellers Wife
The Amber Spyglass
The Kite Runner
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Green Mile

I'm going to have to go and look at my bookshelf, coz all I've pretty much done is look over everyone elses posts and gone "oh, yeah, that one too"

Probably loads over my life, but the most recent was I Capture the Castle. Totally fell in love with it, and cried at the end even though it's sort of a happy ending.

Tully by paulina simons takes you through every emotion possible! highly recommend it. am going to reread it now i've had a baby and am expecting many more tears this time!

The green mile
of mice and men
what we did on our holiday

A Fine Balance
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Wake

The Bridge to Terabithia
The Outsiders
The Diddakoi
The Story of Holly and Ivy
A Little Princess
Peter Pan
Seven Little Australians

Bridges of Madison County

The Road, Corma McCarthy. Slow to start but so sad

*Cormac even

The God of Small Things - sobbed my heart out repeatedly.

Jude the Obscure
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
More recently: Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

There's a lot of Rumer Godden listed on here - I've never met anyone who's read any apart from me (and my godmother who recommended them years ago). Actually yes, they make me cry too.

Charlotte's Web
Animal Farm
Rilla of Ingleside

Think that's it.

Persuasion
Angela's Ashes

unbearable lightness of being
trick is to keep breathing
grass is singing

Oh, so many.

All the way through the last four chapters of The Amber Spyglass

Her Fearful Symmetry, even though it's not a brilliant book, but the writing around deaths and funerals is the strongest part and made me howl more than once

Firestarter

Behind The Scenes At The Museum (both times in the same place)

Never Let Me Go

Oryx and Crake

1984 (in fact, DP read this recently and I started crying while discussing it with him )

Seriously, no-one else has cried at the Book Thief? I was full on sobbing!

The Peppermint Pig

Ardens Complete Shakespeare -

• i dropped it on my toe during an arguement with my brother over caliban and propero.

Flowers for Mrs Harris - Paul Gallico

Gets me every time - it's just a dress for christs sake!!!!!!

Marley and Me -

my dh quite rightly confiscated it so I can never read it again after finding me in a gibbering snotty heap book in one hand and perplexed soggy labrador in the other.

A Tale of Two Cities. Actually I only have to read the last line - I only have to think of the last line and I start to weep.

Ways to Live Forever - beautiful wonderful children's book.

Wuthering Heights. I am a little obsessed with that book.

Amber Spyglass - it caused me actual, physical pain.