What books made you cry?

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My three

Jane Eyre
The Road
Breaking Dawn

The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And recently I discovered
The Ginger Tree, by Oswald Wynd

Jess The Border Collie - The Promise (In my defence I was probably only about twelve at the time!)

One Day by David Nicholls.

For some reason I don't cry easily with books. If I ever watch films or TV on my own though I cry buckets - more random things that I have cried at include that programme where Gene Simmonds went in and got all the children from the posh private school into rock music, and Waterloo Road

No Matter What
Black Beauty
Charlotte Grey

The worst was some fairy story in the Blue Fairy Book (IIRC) about a ?prince who became a ?sheep and had his head cut off. Something like that. I lay in my room inconsolable for days.

Marley and me

And I can't believe no one else has mentioned these already, but...

Dorothy Koomson - Goodnight Beautiful. I sobbed so hard I was nearly choking

Anybody Out There - Marian Keyes. Sobfest!

Gone with Wind.. sat on a beautiful beach sobbing my eyes out

Elizabeth George- with no one as wittness

I was 20 weeks pregnant with ds when I read this...soo sad

Anne of Green Gables, when Matthew dies, I still cry now at that bit.

Anybody Out There I properly cried at too,

The Lovely Bones, Kite Runner, lots mentioned already.

TBH, most books with any kind of 'sad' bit in, even trite like Jodi Picoult makes me blub these days - even the reveal bits of crap shows like DIY SOS make me sob so I don;t think I'm a very good indicator of how sad a book really is .

Oh god, The Outsiders. I practically cried all the way through (I was 15).

As far as picture books go, Owl Babies and Grace and Family always do for me. I can't even get through G&F so tend to make excuses not to read it.

A Summer To Die - now but not 25 years ago when I first read it. I've softened

Seriously, no-one else for The God of Small Things? - it's utterly heartbreaking - and also lyrical, beautiful and amazing - tis my favourite book ever.

The Forgotten Garden made me absoultely howl as did Case Histories-and also with MissM-I also wail at A Tale of Two Cities and like you MissM I only have to think of those lines and I start welling up-pass me a tissue someone...

Wiggletastic, I couldn't get past the first chapter - really didn't get on with her prose

Oh really Cyteen? I did find it strange at first, it felt very sing-songy to me, almost like poetry, if you get what I mean. Once I got into it I couldn't put it down and the ending is gut-wrenchingly sad.

It still tops my list...

Nothing recently but when I was a lot younger
The Little Mermaid
Little House on the Prairie [is it that one] when Jack the bulldog dies.
Charlotte's web.

These last two can get me going even now when I read he sad bits to the DDs. Doesn't affect them.

Me too Wiggle! One of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read and one of my all-time favourite books.

'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro. Also, 'Remains Of The Day', by the same.

'Charlotte Sometimes' by Penelope Farmer made me cry buckets when I read it as a child, and I suspect it still would if I read it now.

'I Capture The Castle'

'To Kill A Mockingbird'

'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami. I was quietly weeping most of the way through it.

Like PP, the death of Matthew in 'Anne Of Green Gables' always gets me going.

Countless more, probably. I'm a proper cry-baby, me.

Oh, 'The Amber Spyglass' made me weep a lot at the end, too. Plus, I cried a lot at various moments during Pullman's Sally quartet.

I remember loving the God of Small Things, but can't remember a thing about it! Need to re-read....

Flyme, you just reminded me...

Growing up, almost anything by Hans Christian Andersen. Still gets me ...

Goodnight Mister Tom. The bit where his best friend dies (though these days the bit with the baby would probably get me as well). God that's a good book.

I feel I haven't really enjoyed a book unless I cry.

As a teenager: The Outsiders and several other S.E. Hinton books

The Anne of Green Gables one where she is grown up and her son goes to war and the dog waits for him at the train station (tears welling thinking about it now)

13 is Too Young to Die - about a girl with a terminal illness. My sisters and I were inconsolable for days after reading that one

As an adult:

Of Mice and Men

Handful of Dust

The Poisonwood Bible

Strange Fits Of Passion

Too many to mention really.

Like Choosy and Getorf

Charlotte Gray.

In fact I found that book so upsetting I didn't read another Sebastien Faulkes for some time.

Also very upset by Boy in Striped Pjs but have only seen film, not read book.

yes elastic, actually i feel i should comment in case someone is on here looking for recommendations because they like books that make them weep, i wish I'd never read Charlotte Grey, and it wasn't luxurious weeping, it was more of a howl of anguish. I don't even think the book is much good, the ending is deeply unsatisfying, but God SF can punch straight through to the brain stem somehow. Birdsong as well - that's the only book that's ever made me retch physically.

The Red Tent - beautiful and heart rending

Black Beauty, yes. Who didn't cry at BB?

Year of Wonders, not all the way through but one particular bit which just shredded me.

And Skallagrigg - the kind of weeping, howling and yodelling which causes a snot avalance and a mighty headache ... I LOVED it. I mean LOOOOVED IT. I make everyone read it.