Books that made you cry

[MaineBelle]

and I mean all out crying with tears, and tissues! Go ahead and list them here...

I am a sap, so I know there has been plenty of them, but for some reason I can't remember them now.

The only one I can think of is Beach Music by Pat Conroy. I remember sitting on the couch, finishing the book and just blubbering.

[Asha]

the first book that ever made me cry was "where the red fern grows"

[MrsWilson]

This week Marley and Me...sitting at my desk at work!

[Natasha]

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson. I SOBBED! The first book I ever remember really making me cry was The Outsiders

[LeslieandPaul]

A walk to remember made me bawl (even though i knew what happened in the end), and the first two Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books (i know, kinda sappy, but there were some very touching moments in them).
Lots of other books ahve made me cry, but those I recall the most.

[houseblend]

The Time Traveler's Wife. I was still crying after I put it down. DH walked in the room and was so worried about what was wrong! :o

Where The Red Fern Grows got me horribly, too. Even worse, we had to then watch the movie in class (6th grade). I was trying so hard not to cry in front of everyone!

[Freckles]

Bridge To Terabithia
Little Women
The Joy Luck Club
Wuthering Heights
The Fountain Head
A Time for Dancing
Night

[tlew12778]

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

[Lizzy]

I'm pretty sure that Gone with the Wind is the only book that has made me cry.

[Myra]

The Kite Runner
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

[heather1029]

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

This book was his deepest and most touching. Somehow he reached into the minds of the elderly and shared what it feels like to have a spouse dealing with Alzheimers.

But I cry about everything pretty much. I cried during church last Sunday!:o

[LauraPerg]

The 2 most recent books that made me cry are The Time Traveler's Wife and My Sister's Keeper. Both of those had me full out sobbing!

[vwinkel]

I've never had a book that made my cry, but this was a topic at my old job and it makes me want to read some that you all have suggested.

At my old job, we would all exchange books to read on the train for our commute. The Notebook was passed around and I was the last one to read it. All four of my collegues said how they were crying on the train and people were looking at them. Not me, not even a welling up. I became the known as cold hearted. :p

[tlew12778]

Nah, I didn't cry at The Notebook either.

[katmg]

The Time Traveler's Wife - I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed...

Growing up:
Julie of the Wolves - My mom and I still talk about how traumatic that book was for both of us!

[gumball]

Normally I don't cry over books but I was pretty weepy after reading Angelas Ashes. Probably because it was a true story.

[AirForceLove]

The last book that made me cry was SUZANNE'S DIARY FOR NICHOLAS. I cried so much. I loved that James Patterson wrote it. I have almost all of his books and this love story was a great way show off his diverse writing styles.

Charlotte's Web made me cry when I was a kid. Who ever thought a spider dying would be so emotional.

[kalogrias]

Bridge to Terabithia
PS I Love You by Cecilia Ahern -- and I was reading it on a plane! People thought I was nuts.

[mom_to_zoe]

I remember finishing "Gone with the Wind" and crying my eyes out.

I cried reading some of the WWII scenes in "Atonement," by Ian McEwan ( a wonderful book) and telling DH how lucky we were not to live in a time of war. Well, not a world way anyway.

If you are ever looking for a good cry, and especially if you are a mother or a daughter, read "Eva Moves the Furniture" by Margot Livesay. My whole book club cried.

[laura]

I'm not a cryer, but I did cry reading The Kite Runner.

[hockeybrat]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was the most recent book that made me cry.

[snapdragon]

There have only been two books that have made me cry.

1. Where the Red Fern Grows
2. Clan of the Cave Bear

There have been others that upset me, but these two have just gotten under my skin and even today when I reread them I bawl. :o

[pixiecat]

I'm sure I've gotten a little teary at many, but the one that had me sobbing, literally sobbing! at the table was The Time Travelers Wife.

[xine]

I can only remember two books making me cry, and they've already been mentioned:

Where the Red Fern Grows - I remember hiding under the covers crying my eyes out as I read it because I didn't want my parents to worry about me.

My Sister's Keeper - This had me literally sobbing for a full half-hour after I finished the book. I called my friend who had recommended it to me and gave her an earful for not warning me in advance. She then recommended The Time Traveller's Wife, which I have not had the courage to pick up yet!

[quest]

My Sergei, by Ekaterina Gordeeva.

[tenofcups]

I know there are several books that have made me cry through the years, but I'm having a hard time remembering them. Books that I know made me cry in more than one place:

- Sophie's Choice (I never saw the movie, but the book is very intense)
- The Women's Room
- Exodus
- Marjorie Morningstar

[mel_hams]

I cried for hours reading My Sister's Keeper.
I cry with almost every Nicholas Sparks book that I read.
I can't think of the others right now, but there have been many.

[bookworm]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Little Women.... that bit about the Valley of the Shadow gets me every time.

Then again, I cry at everything...including (as mentioned in this thread) The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, and (although I hated it), My Sister's Keeper.

[isobel]

The last book that made me break down in sobs was The Kite Runner.

[Jessica]

I made the mistake of reading The Dogs of Babel as I was coaching cheerleading practice (the girls were running to warm up). By the time they finished, I was a mess. They were all worried that something had happened to me, which was cute.

[Amuse Bouche]

Hey -- I read Where the Red Fern Grows in 5th grade, and I finished it during a study period in class, sobbing my eyes out. The boy sitting next to me was all flummoxed. Hee.

I'm a big sap, but recently I've cried at The Time Traveler's Wife and Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (it's better if you've read Outlander first, but I've reread it several times and sob every time.).

[shopgirl]

The Kite Runner

I don't cry reading books or watching movies. But I found myself sobbing while reading this book.

[Anna Low]

The Mermaid Chair made me cry.

[betsyboop]

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden made me SOB when I finished it. I think I was probably around 14 at the time and I was shocked and found it depressing that the girl wasn't cured of schizophrenia by the end of the book.

More recently, Good Grief (I can't remember the author). It is about a woman whose husband dies after only a few years of marriage. I kept thinking about DH dying and I ended up crying every time I picked up the book.

[Rosebud]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was the most recent book that made me cry.

Me too. I was a total mess.

Other books I can recall that made me cry:

A Farewell to Arms (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684801469/sr=8-1/qid=1145297781/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6467134-0590535?%5Fencoding=UTF8)
Gone With the Wind (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446365386/qid=1145297808/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6467134-0590535?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)

[CTs_Punkin]

Old Yeller & Where the red fern grows - these were way back when I was in Jr high

Current books that have made me bawl
PS I Love you
Marley & Me I was sobbing, my hubby didn't know what to think...
The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks

[jnshanna]

Not many books have made me cry but The Wedding had me in tears.

[jbenny75]

I just finished Marley and Me. Big tear-jerker.

[Asha]

corelli's mandolin

if you have seen the movie, it doesn't even do the book justice.

[mommy2AlliWill]

Kite Runner
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Marley & Me, but I think you need to be a dog lover

[swampy]

Hmm, I can only recall a few.

Billy Budd, by Melville, does it every single time ... that poem at the end. :(

The most recent would be The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo. I just read that 2 or 3 weeks ago, and was sobbing. :( :(

[clammyinsf]

only two that i can vividly recall pouring tears in:

falling leaves, by adeline yen mah
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and the unwanted, by kien nguyen
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...gave me a whole new perspective for what half-asian kids had to endure and appreciation for why my parents left their home country

[LaughAtlantis]

I was on the subway when I finished Marley & Me. People were all staring at me. Somebody asked me if I was all right; tears were just streaming down my face so hard.

People have mentioned a lot of other books that have affected me like this - Bridge to Terabithia, My Sister's Keeper, Beach Music, Prayer for Owen Meany - but nobody's mentioned either Bag of Bones or The Stand, both by Stephen King. There were moments in each that made me SOB. In both, there was a death that actually made me throw the book across the room in frustration, anger, and sadness. I just cried for ages.

[ManteoChik]

I cried like a baby while reading Marley and Me. Originally I bought the book because not only am I a dog owner/lover, but I'm a lab owner/lover. I knew the ending was going to be sad but I didn't anticipate it to be that sad.

[Toonces]

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - I finished reading it in bed one night and was sobbing so much that I thought I was going to wake DH up! The Lovely Bones also made me cry.

[MrsD108]

Terms of Endearment.

[sophiapb]

Clan of the Cave Bear
The Time Traveler's Wife
Five People You Meet In Heaven (although I was majorly PMSing so I blame it on hormones :p )

[ysolde]

Bag of Bones! Yes! I was in a hotel room, by myself, on a long work thing, and just cried my eyes out when that character died -- so young, so full of love. And when the character's "ghost" showed up one last time, oh, the tears.

The Stand -- If you are thinking of the character of whom I am thinking, absolutely. I have a disability, and I identified with that character. I was young when I read the book, and I was startled when the character told Mother Abigal that he "Didn't believe in God," and she responded, "That don't matter. He believes in you." At the time, I didn't believe in God, either (few 16 year-olds, do, I suspect). So when King killed off that character . . .

[EmilyZA]

I BAWLED when I finished The Time Traveller's Wife. Bawled.

[tray622]

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - I finished reading it in bed one night and was sobbing so much that I thought I was going to wake DH up!

This one did me in. Then I even had to reread out of pure self torture :(

[MLA]

Charlotte's Web made me cry when I was a kid. Who ever thought a spider dying would be so emotional.

Me too. It's actually a book I've re-read as an adult, and it makes me cry every time I read it. So sad!

[beakersmom]

Marley & Me
Half Blood Prince...sobbing

[jimmysgirl424]

Fine Things (Danielle Steele)

Bag Of Bones (Stephen King)

ETA: Adding one more; I read it and re-read it as a teen and young adult constantly and it reduced me to blubbering every time! Hmmm..... I think I need to find a copy and read it again!

Walk Through Cold Fire (Cin Forshay-Lundsford)

[endymion411]

orphans of the living--jennifer toth

had to read it for a class this semester. made me cry several times. dh read a couple pages over my shoulder on a plane trip and didn't know how i could read the whole book.

[twiceasnice]

Hands down, Marley & Me although I did cry at Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

[sarahbear2005]

My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult - actually a few of her books are cry worthy, but this was the one that made me cry enough for tissues.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince (Snape is GOOD!!)....... maybe i'm just a big sap.

[sarahbear2005]

OOh forgot one!

P.S. I love you - Cecelia Ahern - sobbed my eyes out and went through half a box of tissues.

[Asha]

i just fully embarrassed myself by gushing big, sloppy tears while reading "the time traveller's wife" on the plane.

[Sha259]

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas-Definitely did me in. Thanks goodness I was alone.:o

[redhead11381]

Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers

[schmeevee]

The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and Marley & Me by John Grogan

looks like "Time Traveller's Wife" is something I have to pick up so I can cry some more. HAHA

[MichelleRenee]

I'm a big crybaby, so I cry at everything.

Almost every Nicholas Sparks book made me cry, and I've read every one. Message in a Bottle was the one that made me cry the most.

The last 2 Harry Potter books also made me cry.

[bevvied]

Definitely Night by Eli Wiesel

[ginadc]

I can't read books where animals die since "Where the Red Fern Grows." I read it as a kid and the damn thing nearly did me in.

Two books that have had me in tears recently (and left me unable to stop thinking about them) were Ian McEwan's Atonement and Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. (Just finished that one yesterday and I am absolutely haunted by it.)

[Little Angel '77]

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

This book was his deepest and most touching. Somehow he reached into the minds of the elderly and shared what it feels like to have a spouse dealing with Alzheimers.


Oh my mom handed me that book 10 years ago, and said "oh honey, its just wonderful." I read it... cried my eyes out, and told her never to tell me "how wonderful" a book was again. I yelled at her telling her that was the most depressing book I've ever read. I didn't speak to her for 2 days.

I loved every minute of the book :)

[schmeevee]

i can add another book....

SISTER OF MY HEART

[curlyjr]

(putting on my cape) Dragons of Autumn Twilight from the Dragonlance series, hell actually I got a little misty eyes during all three of the original chronicles.

[scout]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn made me cry.

[mommydearest]

The Lovely Bones did me in most recently. Since I've been preggo, anything with someone's child being hurt does me in.

[lawyergirl25]

The Tortilla Curtain. Toward the end, I felt like I was crying every few pages.

[countrymouse]

I second Where the Red Fern Grows! My 4th grade teacher used to read it to our class after lunch...she practically sobbed her way through it and had the whole 4th grade class crying- even the boys. I read it again as an adult and bawled.

[kemaji]

Has anyone posted Marley and Me yet? I laughed so hard I cried through the first half of the book, and it was so sad I bawled through the second half. For anyone who is a pet owner, this is a very worthwhile read.

[jajacobsen]

I second Marley & Me. I didn't see kemaji's post when I saw the title of the thread and this book immediately came to mind. A very honest, loving story.

[cpaccione]

SUZANNE'S DIARY FOR NICHOLAS

This book was mentioned already...tissues, sobbing, the whole nine yards...that was me. :o

[rachrich]

I was on a Nicholas Sparks kick a few summers ago when the Notebook came out in theatres. I read several of his books and they all made me cry, but I sobbed the most reading A Bend in the Road.
Also, PP's have mentioned Stephen King's Bag of Bones. I remember several years ago picking it up from a bargain bin at border's since I love him. I couldn't believe I was crying reading an SK book.

[Janey]

I'm looking for a book to give my 8 year old Nephew for his birthday. I thought of Where The Red Fern Grows, since it was my favorite when I was little. I looked it up on Amazon... and there are two excerpts. I cried just reading the excerpts, though it's been 20-25 years since I read it cover to cover.

I come in here thinking maybe someone is posting about books for youngsters, click on this thread, and notice that many of you have the same 'problem' with the book... :)

[TracieB]

Totally sobbing while reading this book, but I'd turn a page and then be laughing. It's SUCH a good read - it really makes you appreciate everything you have... I would highly, HIGHLY recommend it!!!!

http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/File.ashx?cid=629

[chiffani]

Thanks ladies, I just added a ton of criers to my library list ;) LOL I'm a glutton for punishment.

I cried most recently while reading "For Laci" about Laci Peterson, written by her mom, Sharon Rocha. I think being a mom and feeling Sharon's pain is what did me in. A LOT of the books already listed have done me in though :)

[tunibell]

Alex: The Life of a Child by sportswriter Frank Deford. It's a tribute to his daughter, who died at age 8 of cystic fibrosis. I cried so hard I could barely catch a breath.

[Peppy]

The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer and The Last Time they Met by Anita Shreve both made me blubber.

[matryoshka]

I have cried at a lot of the children's/YA books already posted, but I remember in the recent past crying at

The Lovely Bones

I have a hard time with parental sadness themes. It's like how I've seen Saving Private Ryan 150 times now and I still burst into tears every time Mrs. Ryan sees the army chaplain's car pulling up her farm road to tell her her 4 sons are dead.

[Nanner]

Another one here for Where the Red Fern Grows. I will never forget being over at my best friend's house reading it. I was going to be spending the night over there, and I just had a handful of chapters to go to finish it for school, so I brought it with me. After I finished it, I had to go home. I couldn't stop crying.

HP and the Half-Blood Prince got me, too. I just reread it recently, and it did it again.

[allison]

Another one for The Lovely Bones. I recently read it on vacation and I cried most of the way on our 14 hour plane ride! Crying aside, I really liked the book.

[jen]

Marley and Me

I am such a sap.

[ruby]

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks didn't make me cry, but Message in a Bottle made me sob!!!! Never saw the movie, but the book affected me for weeks!

[Susan]

Another vote for Marley and Me. I cried like a freakin' baby.

[HeatherFL]

Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art (http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Me-Like-Stranger-Search/dp/031233706X) by Gene Wilder.

Todd gave this to me as a gift when I had surgery in 2005. It hit close to home. Not what I expected. A great, great book.

~H.

[zayt]

Oh yeah - Marley and me. Cried like a baby, also laughed out loud many times.