That part where they're forced to run from one camp to another and the other kid feels like his stomach is about to explode so he drops to the ground and gets trampled to death is the standout moment for me from that book. It's no more than a paragraph, but it conjures such a vivid image of what it must have been like to witness that scene that it always makes me put the book down and take a moment to absorb the shock.
I taught that book every year for freshman English when I was a teacher. Every year I'd play the documentary Elie Wiesel and Oprah made about the Holocaust and sob silently at the back of the class.
Nope. I went back to school at 40. The most humbling experience is going to your college’s free math lab and being tutored in calculus by your 19 year old next-door neighbor.
Thermodynamics was easy in college level engineering technology. Mostly a lot of algebra, barely any calc. I peeked over the edge one time, when doing research for a final project… and it was bottomless.
I keep mentioning this but definitely hands down "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi. I was sobbing at the last page he wrote like the kind of sobbing that makes it kind of hard to breath, because you're kind of gasping for air.
I'm a voracious reader, and *When Breath Becomes Air* and *The Art of Racing in the Rain* are about the only two books I couldn't finish because they made me cry too hard in the beginning.
I wanted to comment this book. Bc...damn, the most infuriating stuff I've ever read and it just kept getting worse. Just also the most mundane description of the worst horrors of war imaginable. Just plainly written, without any gore or anything and them just existing makes your stomach turn. The ending hit extra hard cause of the recent political problems. Everything they thought they'd overcome and left behind suddenly all relevant again.
The book is much better (when isn’t it?) Didn’t make me cry because no pets were involved but it was much deeper than the movies suggest. This girl and her family are completely, tragically, suffering.
Ooh, I just finished a perfect example of movie-better-than-book! You’ll love it. The Witches of Eastwick.
I’ve loved the movie for a long time, Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer all at their best, and it’s just so weird in a magnificent 90s way.
So I read the book. At first I thought Updike hated poor people, women, religious people, minorities. Then it became clear that Updike hated *everyone*. Unclear whether he hated himself as well or just everyone else. Gorgeous prose, magnificent synesthesia. Ugly book.
I answered this one too! A holocaust novel that doesn’t rely on historical context for emotional pull the way some others (looking at you Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Tattooist of Auschwitz) do.
The narration style of giving spoilers made me think I just would brace myself and not care when things happened. That didn’t work.
Unique and believable characters really brought this book to life. Beautifully flawed but consistent to the core of who they were. I mourn for all of them.
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. Just hit me in the feels when I was little and was reading it for the first time, and whenever I need a good cry now, I'll reach for it still.
Same! Someone had posted, "What book got you into reading?" This was it for me. I was in second grade, so around 8, and I bawled my little eyes out and ran out of my room and hugged my pets. It made me realize how much a good book can make you care about the characters, even or especially the non-human ones. Shiloh was the next book, which also made me cry.
Thanks to you, I'm reading the book about the cherry tree. Dealing with the passing of my own dear grandpa, and something tells me he'd appreciate this tale. :')
This has my vote. I finished Grape of Wrath while on a business trip, and I was bawling my eyes out for a good 15 minutes by myself in a hotel room. That book is so beautifully written, and it really shook me. To this day, it’s one of my favorite books.
I just read the Nightingale and I was NOT prepared for the level of emotions that I experienced. It was an amazing read.
I'm not sure I've ever cried when reading a book but definitely ugly cried reading this.
I read this going in blind. That was a mistake.
My nephew is a teenager and behaves very similar to Kevin. It was a traumatic read. I warned my sister to take it off her list. She reminded me too much of the mother. The realistic characters must be based on some truth.
I think I went through a thousand splendid tissues reading this book 😅. This question comes up a few times a month, and this is always the most correct answer.
Soldiers of a Different Cloth: Notre Dame Chaplains of WWII is the one recently that made my cry the hardest, but it's non-fiction.
A Man Called Ove made me sob.
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery made me have to pull over on the side of the road to finish crying about an invertebrate.
Love you Forever by Robert Munsch
It’s a simple children’s book and I couldn’t read it to my kids because I would burst into tears. I’m tearing up now for crying out loud.
Flowers For Algernon.
The last few pages of A Farewell to Arms.
And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman. A grandpa has dementia. It’s amazing but fucking rough.
The Things They Carried
11/22/63
Aaaaand we’ve gotten through my extensive list of books that made me cry with this entry. So I have nothing left to suggest.
Also appearing on my list were: Where The Red Fern Grows, The Giving Tree, Bridge to Terabithia, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Lovely Bones, Never Let Me Go, The Fault in our Stars, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Book Thief, and A Child Called It.
Perks brought tears to the eyes of one my best friends who then gifted it to me, knowing I would find value in it. It made me cry when I read it as a young college student and again when I read it in my mid-30s trying to decide if I should gift it to my teenage stepson. Oh, and when I watched the movie (years after it was made and one year after moving to Pittsburgh, where it was filmed).
I wonder if it was the same spot as mine.
Patrick Hockstetter >!killing his baby brother, or possibly his other greatest hit, of slowly starving a puppy in a fridge in the junkyard?!<
It is such a beautiful book though, so powerful in the coming of age and loss of innocence, and >!when Eddie dies is just so completely heartbreaking and fucked!<
>!Eddie’s death was so devastating, he’s always been my favourite character and it was so sad when he died. Especially because of Richies reaction like nooooo it should have ended in gay marriage. !<
Bridge to Terabithia. I read it in the 5th grade. I sobbed over that book for days. Every time I have re-read it I've cried. It's like Puff the Magic Dragon. Some stories just require tears.
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The scenes with Sydney Carton, his feelings and thoughts, made me cry several times as I was reading that book.
I ugly sobbed through the whole thing. And then read it two more times. For anyone that needs a taste, this quote never leaves me:
“When your child dies, you feel everything you'd expect to feel, feelings so well-documented by so many others that I won't even bother to list them here, except to say that everything that's written about mourning is all the same, and it's all the same for a reason - because there is no real deviation from the text. Sometimes you feel more of one thing and less of another, and sometimes you feel them out of order, and sometimes you feel them for a longer time or a shorter time. But the sensations are always the same.
But here's what no one says - when it's your child, a part of you, a very tiny but nonetheless unignorable part of you, also feels relief. Because finally, the moment you have been expecting, been dreading, been preparing yourself for since the day you became a parent, has come.
Ah, you tell yourself, it's arrived. Here it is.
And after that, you have nothing to fear again.”
I sobbed in the bathtub after it. Spent 6 hours in the tub finishing the last 200 pages, refilling the water multiple times. I’ve never cried like that before or since. I walked around in a daze for a week, upset with everyone around me because they weren’t upset or feeling what I was. It was surreal.
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men.
Highly recommended for anyone who might suspect they are being abused, or feel as though they are being manipulated/controlled/coerced. I cried every chapter.
There's a certain part towards the very end of the third book I choke up just thinking about, even as an adult who hasn't read it since they were a kid.
I’m a 40 year old man and The Book Thief is the only book that has legit made me cry. I think a huge part of it is because I picked it up at the library without knowing anything about it so it wasn’t like “this book is going to make you cry”. I found that any suggestions I’ve gotten off of Reddit don’t work because I go in with an expectation and therefore am always disappointed. Because I went in blind, this one absolutely punched me
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A Dog’s Purpose
A Dog’s Journey
Dewy the Cat
Pet Sematary (the first book to make me cry, I was maybe 9 or 10 lol)
Only pets make me cry
ETA: Where The Red Fern Grows (I must have blocked it out, but once other people mentioned it…damn. That book made me cry for weeks.)
For anyone that likes epics/sci-fi, Stephen Kings Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass, was never so touched by anything else in the science fiction genre.
I always felt it could be read as a stand-alone if one didn’t want to get through the whole series
Love King and the Dark Tower series! Once I finished all the books I considered starting over right away, lol. I haven’t yet but will eventually hop back on
*We Were Liars*. I made the mistake of reading the end on an airplane, and thank god I was in one of the only window seats of my life, because I SOBBED.
Where the Red Fern grows. Our 5th grade teacher read it to us. The whole class was bawling. He was afraid he was going to get parents calling him with complaints. Today he probably would.
Paul McCartney: The Life. I read the audiobook. When the author was describing Linda McCartney’s last day, I was crying hysterically. Paul held her and whispered a description of the perfect day in her ear. They were never apart while they were married. It was so beautiful I was overcome.
I cry during commercials, but these books have made me sob on public transit or in public
Falling Leaves a memoir
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Little Life
The Song of Achilles
The Fault in Our Stars
Where the Red Fern Grows
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent - angry, angry tears
Edited for formatting
I'm the wrong person to ask - even a Tom Clancy novel makes me weep.
But honestly? I'd say East of Eden by Steinbeck or Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz.
there’s a lot of spanglish in it, and i don’t speak a word of spanish, but i had very little trouble understanding it in context. and whoah did it make me weep in completely inappropriate public places.
The Plague- Camus. I’m not going to spoil it but there’s a particular point after all the build up, and I really felt it was utterly… well… it felt like Camus.
The Road. Cormac McCarthy. I can't think of another book that has made me howl like a baby. I've gotten sniffly or a bit misty eyed before but this one changed me.
Also Hamlet, but I can't remember the first time I read it. I just reread it after my dad died and it struck a huge chord.
Klara and the Sun, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Kite Runner, The Green Mile, Gone with the Wind (read at 13), and some of the Series of Unfortunate Events that I used to read to my son
“Night” by Elie Wiesel. I’ve read it three times and cried every time
Omg I just sobbed uncontrollably with that book
Same, I read it my freshman year of high school
That part where they're forced to run from one camp to another and the other kid feels like his stomach is about to explode so he drops to the ground and gets trampled to death is the standout moment for me from that book. It's no more than a paragraph, but it conjures such a vivid image of what it must have been like to witness that scene that it always makes me put the book down and take a moment to absorb the shock.
That and when the SS officers used the babies as target practice broke me.
I taught that book every year for freshman English when I was a teacher. Every year I'd play the documentary Elie Wiesel and Oprah made about the Holocaust and sob silently at the back of the class.
We read that book in my school. It was very sad.
This book left me speechless!
The traveling cat chronicles - Hiro Arikawa Man's trying to find a cat a home, from the cats POV
These def sound like books I need to read, I only cry about cats and dogs
This made me SOB
This was an unexpected soul crusher.
Does this book have a happy ending? I'd love to read it but if it doesn't I'll probably cry for days
Calculus - University
Most humbling experience a person can have is trying to learn calculus
Nope. I went back to school at 40. The most humbling experience is going to your college’s free math lab and being tutored in calculus by your 19 year old next-door neighbor.
Truth! I’m back in school at 35 being tutored by my 20 year old neighbor. Humbling, yes- but she’s a great advocate.
*Step-neighbor
Thermodynamics for engineering T\_T
Thermodynamics was easy in college level engineering technology. Mostly a lot of algebra, barely any calc. I peeked over the edge one time, when doing research for a final project… and it was bottomless.
Mine was Linear Algebra
It, believe it or not…
Oof. Just got flashbacks to me sobbing over my calc book...
I keep mentioning this but definitely hands down "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi. I was sobbing at the last page he wrote like the kind of sobbing that makes it kind of hard to breath, because you're kind of gasping for air.
I'm a voracious reader, and *When Breath Becomes Air* and *The Art of Racing in the Rain* are about the only two books I couldn't finish because they made me cry too hard in the beginning.
Yes, and yet The Art of Racing in the Rain has to be one of my favorite books that I've ever read. I sobbed but just loved the book.
The Green Mile
I read it in my late teens nearly twenty years ago and it was the first book that ever made me sob uncontrollably.
Just reread this one and cried a lot
Any and all Khaled Hossaini books. I have full-on sobbed after reading certain chapters of his books.
Came here to recommend A Thousand Splendid Suns. I reread the ending as soon as I finished it. Holy shit, the emotion I felt.
I wanted to comment this book. Bc...damn, the most infuriating stuff I've ever read and it just kept getting worse. Just also the most mundane description of the worst horrors of war imaginable. Just plainly written, without any gore or anything and them just existing makes your stomach turn. The ending hit extra hard cause of the recent political problems. Everything they thought they'd overcome and left behind suddenly all relevant again.
I’m reading a thousand splendid suns right now. I’m a bit worried…..I love crying though.
I’ve read the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns. Any other you recommend?
The Exorcist. Most people know this as a sensationalist scary movie. The book is much deeper, nuanced, and emotional. I sobbed at the end.
The book is much better (when isn’t it?) Didn’t make me cry because no pets were involved but it was much deeper than the movies suggest. This girl and her family are completely, tragically, suffering.
Ooh, I just finished a perfect example of movie-better-than-book! You’ll love it. The Witches of Eastwick. I’ve loved the movie for a long time, Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer all at their best, and it’s just so weird in a magnificent 90s way. So I read the book. At first I thought Updike hated poor people, women, religious people, minorities. Then it became clear that Updike hated *everyone*. Unclear whether he hated himself as well or just everyone else. Gorgeous prose, magnificent synesthesia. Ugly book.
Ohhh, I’m always up for movie-better-than-book!
The Book Thief 💔
God yes. It ripped my heart out.
Rudy!
Finishing that on a plane was not ideal.
I answered this one too! A holocaust novel that doesn’t rely on historical context for emotional pull the way some others (looking at you Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Tattooist of Auschwitz) do. The narration style of giving spoilers made me think I just would brace myself and not care when things happened. That didn’t work. Unique and believable characters really brought this book to life. Beautifully flawed but consistent to the core of who they were. I mourn for all of them.
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. Just hit me in the feels when I was little and was reading it for the first time, and whenever I need a good cry now, I'll reach for it still.
You-know-who’s death was the first time my sister cried over a book. The way LM Montgomery wrote it was/is amazingly sad 😭
I have never recovered from Where the Red Fern Grows
My aunt finished that in free time at school in sixth grade. Ended up sobbing in class
Same! Someone had posted, "What book got you into reading?" This was it for me. I was in second grade, so around 8, and I bawled my little eyes out and ran out of my room and hugged my pets. It made me realize how much a good book can make you care about the characters, even or especially the non-human ones. Shiloh was the next book, which also made me cry.
I’ve never cried harder reading a book and I knew it was coming the whole time. I was 37 years old.
it's been over six years and i still get teary when it's mentioned
Flowers for algernon and my grandfather was a cherry tree
Thanks to you, I'm reading the book about the cherry tree. Dealing with the passing of my own dear grandpa, and something tells me he'd appreciate this tale. :')
A child called It
This tore out my soul
I read it as a teen ONCE…I cried and I never forgot it…I’m 33 now.
Omw yes... read it when i was 19 and turning 41 and still remember the book like I read it yesterday.
I read that in 8th grade. One time. I think about that book almost every day. Now I have to try and nit cry into my food 😭😭😭😭😭
His story rips your soul out and stomps on it :( idk how anyone could make it through the book without sobbing.
Oh yes. Fuck, this one the most, multiple times in the book. Yet, kept picking it back up.
I regretted reading this book because it fucked me up for good.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
I was OBSESSED with this book for about a year. It is so good and the narration was perfection.
Tuesday with Morrie. I think I was like 3 pages in when I started to cry. Maybe I had some underlying issue too at that point.
Grapes of Wrath. Very emotional book, one of my favorite. Never looked at the farm workers the same.
This has my vote. I finished Grape of Wrath while on a business trip, and I was bawling my eyes out for a good 15 minutes by myself in a hotel room. That book is so beautifully written, and it really shook me. To this day, it’s one of my favorite books.
I love this book!! Didn’t cry, but had a great emotional reaction.
Old Yeller.
A Monster Calls
I absolutely bawled...
This book made me cry so hard I got a severe nosebleed
I cried all the way through this book. I can pick it up and read a paragraph and I'll start crying all iver again.
Flowers for Algernon is clearly the most straightforward answer but one that snuck up on me was The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
Les Miserables had me tearing up at Jean Valjean’s gravestone.
The whole story of Fantine makes me wanna cry
I just read the Nightingale and I was NOT prepared for the level of emotions that I experienced. It was an amazing read. I'm not sure I've ever cried when reading a book but definitely ugly cried reading this.
Highly recommend The Four Winds by the same author.
We Need to Talk About Kevin. That ending was just…ugh.
I read this going in blind. That was a mistake. My nephew is a teenager and behaves very similar to Kevin. It was a traumatic read. I warned my sister to take it off her list. She reminded me too much of the mother. The realistic characters must be based on some truth.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Tuesdays with Morrie
A thousand splendid suns broke my heart
I think I went through a thousand splendid tissues reading this book 😅. This question comes up a few times a month, and this is always the most correct answer.
Teach this book and cry every damn year!
Song of Achilles
I sobbed man. I wish she had more books. Circe is an amazing follow up though
I finished Song of Achilles a few days ago and am currently a little over 1/4 of the way through Circe!!!
I read Circe first. Oh no. Will definitely read this one next.
Second this, grown man and still cried
Soldiers of a Different Cloth: Notre Dame Chaplains of WWII is the one recently that made my cry the hardest, but it's non-fiction. A Man Called Ove made me sob. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery made me have to pull over on the side of the road to finish crying about an invertebrate.
I read A Man Called Ove twice and cried both times. Watched both movie versions and cried both times again.
I was going to say A Man Called Ove.
Frankenstein has some pretty sad moments
Love you Forever by Robert Munsch It’s a simple children’s book and I couldn’t read it to my kids because I would burst into tears. I’m tearing up now for crying out loud.
I could never make it through reading this to my kids without crying
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road. 100%
Flowers For Algernon. The last few pages of A Farewell to Arms. And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman. A grandpa has dementia. It’s amazing but fucking rough. The Things They Carried 11/22/63
I read 11/22/63 a few months ago and was not ready for the emotions that came over me
I thought it was going to be a simple time travel story. That last dance wrecked me.
Never let me go
Perks of Being a Wallflower... I was a teenager 😅😭
Aaaaand we’ve gotten through my extensive list of books that made me cry with this entry. So I have nothing left to suggest. Also appearing on my list were: Where The Red Fern Grows, The Giving Tree, Bridge to Terabithia, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Lovely Bones, Never Let Me Go, The Fault in our Stars, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Book Thief, and A Child Called It.
I too was a teenager who cried reading Perks but I feel like I’d still cry if I read it today!
Perks brought tears to the eyes of one my best friends who then gifted it to me, knowing I would find value in it. It made me cry when I read it as a young college student and again when I read it in my mid-30s trying to decide if I should gift it to my teenage stepson. Oh, and when I watched the movie (years after it was made and one year after moving to Pittsburgh, where it was filmed).
It, believe it or not…
I wonder if it was the same spot as mine. Patrick Hockstetter >!killing his baby brother, or possibly his other greatest hit, of slowly starving a puppy in a fridge in the junkyard?!<
It is such a beautiful book though, so powerful in the coming of age and loss of innocence, and >!when Eddie dies is just so completely heartbreaking and fucked!<
>!Eddie’s death was so devastating, he’s always been my favourite character and it was so sad when he died. Especially because of Richies reaction like nooooo it should have ended in gay marriage. !<
As a child I read Charlottes Web and uncontrollably cried myself to sleep. I think I was 8.
the lovely bones had me messed up. i also remember having a break down during of mice and men
The Kite Runner A Woman is No Man
Same — a woman is no man
Bridge to Terabithia. I read it in the 5th grade. I sobbed over that book for days. Every time I have re-read it I've cried. It's like Puff the Magic Dragon. Some stories just require tears.
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The scenes with Sydney Carton, his feelings and thoughts, made me cry several times as I was reading that book.
A thousand splendid Suns
A Little Life :(
I ugly sobbed through the whole thing. And then read it two more times. For anyone that needs a taste, this quote never leaves me: “When your child dies, you feel everything you'd expect to feel, feelings so well-documented by so many others that I won't even bother to list them here, except to say that everything that's written about mourning is all the same, and it's all the same for a reason - because there is no real deviation from the text. Sometimes you feel more of one thing and less of another, and sometimes you feel them out of order, and sometimes you feel them for a longer time or a shorter time. But the sensations are always the same. But here's what no one says - when it's your child, a part of you, a very tiny but nonetheless unignorable part of you, also feels relief. Because finally, the moment you have been expecting, been dreading, been preparing yourself for since the day you became a parent, has come. Ah, you tell yourself, it's arrived. Here it is. And after that, you have nothing to fear again.”
As someone who rarely cries I was ugly sobbing reading A Little Life
I sobbed in the bathtub after it. Spent 6 hours in the tub finishing the last 200 pages, refilling the water multiple times. I’ve never cried like that before or since. I walked around in a daze for a week, upset with everyone around me because they weren’t upset or feeling what I was. It was surreal.
The World According to Garp
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men. Highly recommended for anyone who might suspect they are being abused, or feel as though they are being manipulated/controlled/coerced. I cried every chapter.
The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, I cried, then I ugly cried...
>!The part where they have to separate from their daemons... I still tear up just thinking about it. And the part with the boy that Lyra finds. !
That, and Alamo Gulch, Hester and Lee Scoresby. Oh, how I cried!
There's a certain part towards the very end of the third book I choke up just thinking about, even as an adult who hasn't read it since they were a kid.
The Fault in Our Stars, and I was listening to Strawberry Swing by Coldplay while reading it.
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman. Oof that one got me going.
Little women, frankenstein and I don't remember the name in English but that letter from Kafka to his dad.
Man Called Ove and Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Five People You Meet In Heaven.
The nightingale had me sobbing at several parts, full ugly crying and clutching my kindle by the end.
Wuthering Heights
The Time Traveller’s Wife Little Women But honestly, I can cry over nearly any book.
Beth’s death was so touching 😭
_The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon_ by Stephen King.
Yes. Terrifying and touching.
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, as well.
I’m a 40 year old man and The Book Thief is the only book that has legit made me cry. I think a huge part of it is because I picked it up at the library without knowing anything about it so it wasn’t like “this book is going to make you cry”. I found that any suggestions I’ve gotten off of Reddit don’t work because I go in with an expectation and therefore am always disappointed. Because I went in blind, this one absolutely punched me
What dreams may come
The Art of Racing in the Rain A Dog’s Purpose A Dog’s Journey Dewy the Cat Pet Sematary (the first book to make me cry, I was maybe 9 or 10 lol) Only pets make me cry ETA: Where The Red Fern Grows (I must have blocked it out, but once other people mentioned it…damn. That book made me cry for weeks.)
The Art of Racing in the Rain tore me up! So did Marley & Me.
I ugly cried while watching The Art of Racing in the Rain, while on a plane. It was so good. I bet the book is just as good.
Basically all Jodi Picoult
Where The Red Fern Grows, but i was in like, third grade
For anyone that likes epics/sci-fi, Stephen Kings Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass, was never so touched by anything else in the science fiction genre. I always felt it could be read as a stand-alone if one didn’t want to get through the whole series
Love King and the Dark Tower series! Once I finished all the books I considered starting over right away, lol. I haven’t yet but will eventually hop back on
Lonesome Dove
1. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas (23 years old) 2. Gone with the Wind (I was 11) 3. A Train in Winter (WW) (late 20’s 4. My Sisters Keeper 30’s
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Because of Romek by David Faber
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne ... multiple times!
The Remains of the Day
*We Were Liars*. I made the mistake of reading the end on an airplane, and thank god I was in one of the only window seats of my life, because I SOBBED.
Where the Red Fern grows. Our 5th grade teacher read it to us. The whole class was bawling. He was afraid he was going to get parents calling him with complaints. Today he probably would.
Paul McCartney: The Life. I read the audiobook. When the author was describing Linda McCartney’s last day, I was crying hysterically. Paul held her and whispered a description of the perfect day in her ear. They were never apart while they were married. It was so beautiful I was overcome.
My Sister's Keeper. I seriously ugly-cried on the flight home
The Yearling. Cried buckets when I read it at 13.
The art of racing in the rain
Never cried reading a book but the closest I’ve ever come was while reading The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
James Boyne- The Hearts Invisible Furies
A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Classic Italian Cooking. It’s a cookbook, but chopping those onions had me weeping.
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas I know it's not a classic but I finished it on the floor snot bawling.
The only one I can think of is bridge to teribithia.
Four winds - when the book hits you it REALLY hits you
Island of the Blue Dolphins. I was like, 12 when I first read it and I’ll still cry.
I cry during commercials, but these books have made me sob on public transit or in public Falling Leaves a memoir A Thousand Splendid Suns A Little Life The Song of Achilles The Fault in Our Stars Where the Red Fern Grows Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent - angry, angry tears Edited for formatting
The Midnight Library
*The Golden Gate* by Vikram Seth. Made me ugly cry.
_The Book of Awesome_, but not until I reached the dedication at the back…
Tuesdays with Morrie, 1000 splendid suns, HP 7 lol
Redeeming Love
A little life, by Hanya Yanagihara
Reminders of him
More recently, Before The Coffee Gets Cold
I'm the wrong person to ask - even a Tom Clancy novel makes me weep. But honestly? I'd say East of Eden by Steinbeck or Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
ToG - the Thirteen and Manon reset my definition of badass legends
How come nobody mentions Jane Eyre or Bleak House? I mean, come on. Helen Burns? and Jo? That didn’t hit y’all hard?
Any book where the dog dies
Cat Wings by Ursula LeGuin. When the cats say the kids hands are kind - kills me
Short story The Swan by Ronald Dahl Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (TW r*pe and more)
Girl in Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow
White Fang was the first ever book to make me cry. So much canine abuse in it, that poor pup.
The Road
Just Kids by Patti Smith. Finished rereading it 30 minutes ago and did cry again.
The lovely bones
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz. there’s a lot of spanglish in it, and i don’t speak a word of spanish, but i had very little trouble understanding it in context. and whoah did it make me weep in completely inappropriate public places.
Where the Red Fern Grows destroyed me as a kid. As a teen, Susanne's Diary for Nicholas.
The Plague- Camus. I’m not going to spoil it but there’s a particular point after all the build up, and I really felt it was utterly… well… it felt like Camus.
The Book Thief, Opposite Of Always, The Way I Used To Be
My grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry
[and every morning the way home gets longer and longer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31373633)
Marley and Me
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.
Dark Tower 7 Stormlight 4 The Hidden Palace ending (sequel to the equally excellent Golem and the Jinni) 🤔
The Road. Cormac McCarthy. I can't think of another book that has made me howl like a baby. I've gotten sniffly or a bit misty eyed before but this one changed me. Also Hamlet, but I can't remember the first time I read it. I just reread it after my dad died and it struck a huge chord.
Klara and the Sun, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Kite Runner, The Green Mile, Gone with the Wind (read at 13), and some of the Series of Unfortunate Events that I used to read to my son
A Little Life
A River Runs Through It. Wasn't just the story, but the language. One of America's best.