What books have made you cry?

[Kirsten]

I keep a note of all the books that have made me cry:

Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
A Long Long WayA Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
An Imperfect Lens: A Novel by Anne Roiphe
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets by Jude Morgan
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
What was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Battle Cry by Leon Uris
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
Reaper by Rachel Vincent
The School of Night by Louis Bayard
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Dogs of Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
The Honor of the Queen by David Weber
Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb
Suspect by Robert Crais

[Tina]

Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog Cried like a baby

[Pip]

Gosh, Kirsten, that's a lot of tissues!!!

[Sandra]

I'm not someone who cries very easily but these two books immediately come to mind. (and they are both on my all time favorite list)

Mrs. Mike I loved loved loved this book as a young girl.

The Yearling OMG!

[Julie]

This is my list:



I guess I'll give my tissues to Kirsten. :-)

[Kirsten]

Yeah, my sister used to complain about how I'd cry for fictional people. (Like when Serena died in the 1980s Battlestar Galactica ... or during Where The Red Fern Grows...)

My list starts from 2008... I'm sure there are other books I've cried during.

[Linda]

I couldn't think of a book right off that made me cry, until I read your list and saw "Marley and Me" on there. It immediately reminded me of The Cat Who Went to Paris . Loved that little Norton.

Kirsten, now I'll have to go back through my books as no others come immediately to mind. I'm sure there have got to be a couple more, though! But I'm quite impressed by your list. :)

[Linda]

Hmmm...I guess it's been awhile since I read the Norton books (there are three). It might have actually been the last book that made me cry. Now I might need to reread these. The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human

[Kaitlyn]

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns both made me sob like crazy.

[Raymunda]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy left me so devastated that I couldn't stop crying for the following half an hour after finishing the book.

[Anita]

I haven't a list, either. Another box of tissues for Kirsten. :)

[B'burg Linda]

I tend to put off reading sad books, so rarely read animal stories; they almost always end with the animal dying. 'Marley' and 'The Art of Racing in the Rain,' were superb, but I would not want to reread them. However, I belong to two f2f book clubs and therefore occasionally find myself crying along with the best of them. Two recent reads that I cried over were 'Sky Burial' and 'The Heretic's Daughter.' Both were excellent reads that I probably would never had read without my book clubs.

[Kirsten]

It's like on of my favorite eras is WWI. My dad used to laugh at me crying when reading a book set in this era. "It's World War One! It's not supposed to end well!!"

[Terry]

I can only think of one:



The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Unfortunately it was in a tube station on the way to work. I had to take a few moments to recover myself.

[Thom]

The first time I read Shogun Volume 2 by James Clavell I had to wipe a tear and put down the book for awhile when Mariko dies. As the years pass I seem to be much more sentimental and emotional. In any case I choose to attribute it to maturity.

[Evisa]

Kaitlyn wrote: "The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns both made me sob like crazy."

Same here!

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A Lesson Before Dying --very moving, very emotional.

A Prayer for Owen Meany --this caused one of the most intense emotional reactions to a book I've ever experienced.

[Edgarf]

I dropped a complete works of Shakespeare on my toe when I was a child and I really wailed. Then it made me cry again as an adult after reading Hamlet for the first time.

Well really it was not the first time I read Hamlet. It was the first time I read Hamlet and thought, "Oh my God, I get it!"

[Marc]

I tend to cry a lot more in reaction to movies/tv than books, but there's at least three books that I recall crying at some point while reading them: Night (as it tackles the Holocaust from a survivor's perspective), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (felt like he'd lost his second father), and the third was a Tom Clancy book (maybe Clear and Present Danger--there's this scene where the husband and wife are kind of going through strife, but neither has really done anything wrong and they both still love each other... just seemed like a poignant example of life itself fermenting misunderstanding). That's like one book per each of the past three decades...

I am glad to say I have not brought myself to tears (or injury) like Edgarf, but I have come close to hurting myself with a book falling on my face as I drifted off while reading in bed.

[Erin]

Even though I was in high school when I read it, I cried at the end of Watership Down. I'm noticing a pattern here; it's like books about animals have an obligatory tear-jerking moment. I don't read dog books for that reason, haha.

[Jan]

The one I was most emotionally affected by was Wuthering Heights. That was in high-school. It was interesting: the teacher who assigned it said, "I had to read it. You have to read it." Like it was going to be an awful chore. It turned out to be the book that really gave me a love of the novel.

[ColumbusReads]

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines &
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Not just the endings but while reading them as well. There has been others but these two were like crying uncontrollably.

[LindaJ^]

I do not have a list but I have cried over some books. In reviewing your list, the one that devastated me was The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. The most recent one that set me off was Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.