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Any recommendations for books that have made you sad/cry?

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Jenny

A Man Called Ove
The Notebook
Tuesday’s With Morrie
The Diary of Anne Frank

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Karri

The nightingale by Kristen Hannah

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Lorelei

The light between oceans by M.L. Stedman

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Cindy

@Lorelei so good!!

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Victoria

Lots of feels in this one my friend! https://hubpages.com/literature/A-Spark-of-Light-Book-Review

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CynthiaQuestion author

I’ve never been much a fan of Jodi Picoult but I am willing to give this one a chance. I just finished a book that mentioned a school shooting and would like to read another story about a shooting.

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Pamela

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

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Vanessa

Tandia by Bryce Courtenay

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Meagan

“The Nightengale” by Kristin Hannah…I not only wept, but this really stayed with me for a week. I couldn’t even start another book right away.

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CynthiaQuestion author

Ohh this one sounds really good! I think I am going to start with it!

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Ester

I’m not a crier but this one had me bawling. I had my sister read it and she calls me crying when she finished it. Great book!

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Anna

Read this one with a box of tissues close by. It’s really good

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Kayte

This is the only book that’s ever made me ugly cry ❤️❤️❤️

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Theresa

A Dog’s Purpose.

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Crystal

I can’t read about dogs. I know. KNOW I will cry! ??‍♀️

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Theresa

@Crystal I also watched the movie & cried through the whole last part of the movie. I had to find a way to accept my 16 year old Chihuahua was entering into her last phase of life. The book & movie helped me immensely. I’m the same. I just want to know if the dog is ok. ?

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Karri

@Crystal same!!!

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Crystal

@Karri I get so mad when animals are hurt or killed in books. Do whatever you want to a person. I know it’s fake. But my heart breaks for animals no matter if it’s real or not ?

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Karri

@Crystal exactly! I just cant.

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Theresa

A dog’s purpose is definitely not a book about dogs getting hurt or killed. It is a very moving story about “A dog’s purpose,” here on earth. It is very moving.

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Gina

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Kelly

Most recently for me it was Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia.

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Zulema

A monster calls

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Melissa

Marley and Me
Where the Red Fern Grows
Old Yeller
(I have a trend.)

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Sarah

@Melissa, oh my gosh. Where The Red Fern grows gets me every time!

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Melissa

Yep. Every time for me too

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Rae

In terms of books that made me cry…there are a few actually, I had reread Anne of Green Gables and that made me cry, as did Chevy Stevens That night, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And another one was Hawkmistress by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

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CynthiaQuestion author

I am currently in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!

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Rae

Umbridge is so evil and sadistic :/

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Rohen

Farewell to Arms

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Wahidha

Sarah’s key
A man called ove
The Help
Book thief
The Memory keeper’s daughter (my current read)

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Christine

Dry by Augusten Burroughs, More Happy than Not by Adam Silvera and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.

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Rachael

When Crickets Cry

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Erica

I Have Lived a Thousand Years.

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Yvonne

Flowers for Algernon

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Anna

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

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Ashwarya

Anything by khaled hosseini

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Karina

Sara Payne A Mother’s Story

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Mary

Say what you will about John Green, but I’d say The Fault in Our Stars. It’s the only book that made me laugh, then cry, then laugh while i was crying

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Haleema

The recent one that made me cry was The Book Thief.

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Angela

The Kite Runner

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Deborah

Persuasion and Romeo and Juliet….

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Kirsty

A Dogs Purpose

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Stacey

The Time Travelers Wife. Outlander.

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Lesley

The Tattooist of Auschwitz x

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Kayla

The Book Thief.

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Cheryl

Always You by Belle Brooks

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Cheryl

Nineteen Letters by Jodi L Perry

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Nikaya

Marley and Me

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Samantha

The House Called Mbabati has brought grown men to their knees in tears – haven’t managed to do that for years! https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Called-Mbabati-novel-Africa/dp/1533445397

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Kirsty

How to be happy, the keeper of lost things.

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Brian

Where the Red Fern Grows , Old Yeller ,

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Kym

A Little Life, The Memory Book

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Jane

The Railwayman. Fantastic book.

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Hazel

Eleanor and Park

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Janice

Marley & Me made me ugly cry in public. The movie was hideously underwhelming.

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Bijuri

A Little Life. All The Light We Cannot See

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Nancy

The Pearl by Steinbeck

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Himanshi

Shay Savage’s Transcendence

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Patricia

I’m now reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin and I’ve already had a few tears and before that Reading Lolita In Tehran was heart wrenching too. I also shed a few tears whilst reading Room.

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Wahidha

Room made me ugly cry too

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Diogo

I swear that you’ll cry so much: the kite runner!

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Jenelle

Henry’s Sisters by Cathy Lamb

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Amelia

What Nobody Knew

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Sarah

The Trauma Cleaner. Saddest book I’ve ever read.

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Kelly

Still Alice

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Bee

The Snow Child…..

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Saba

written by?

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Bee

Eowyn Ivey….

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Saba

thnx

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Savarna

Marley and Me, A Fault In Our Stars, Me Before You, My Sisters Keeper

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Stephanie

What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George.

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Anindita

All the lights we cannot see by Anthony Doer

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Sonya

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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Tasha

Delirium Trilogy, Thorne of Glass, A Court of Thorns And Roses, and Vampire Academy

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Patience

Stay with me

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Celia

Marley and Me

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Kathie

Most recently, A Man Called Ove. I don’t look for books that make me cry. While I like books that stay with me for awhile, books that make me sad are not something I go looking for.

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Amy

Me Before You

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Ludmila

Before We Were Yours

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Ludmila

The Boy In The Stripped Pijamas

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Kaitlin

The Nightingale and The Great Alond by Kristin Hannah

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Kay

The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks. Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas by James Patterson.

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Lysa

The Hours. Revolutionary Road.

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Susan

The Nightingale

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Molly

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette — beautiful memoir

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Kaitlin

PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

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Kat

Beartown & Us against you from Fredrik Backman.

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Tate

I love this series! I think he is my new favorite author.

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Kat

@Tate I discovered him two years ago. Since then Backman became one of few contemporary authors that I own every single book he wrote.

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Lorie

The Gargoyle

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Mona

Honestly, I think I cried in every book I’ve read…

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Delilah

When Breath Becomes Air

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Monica

Girl, wash your face… rachel hollis

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Sara

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Bethany

The winter garden by Kristin Hannah

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Kris

The Art of Racing in the Rain

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Ste

p.s. i love you
timetravellers wife
me before you
before I die

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Jill

All the Bright Places!!!!!

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Dorena

The Choice by Nicholas Sparks. A man called Ove, Lilac Girls

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Amanda

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

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Bobbi

I don’t cry but this got to me and it has stayed with until this day and I read it several years ago! Love it!

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Sally

Many tears with this book.

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Bobbi

@Sally I know!!!

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Cathy

??

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Sheetal

Little women

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Krissy

The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman

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Tate

Before We Were Yours and Born Survivors.

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Jamie

The Fault in Our Stars
Vanishing Girls

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Roxie

@Jamie I agree with Vanishing Girls

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Sara

A man called Ove

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Salma

Me before you

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Kim

A Boy called It and the sequels. It might be A Child Called It. Anyway it is a heartbreaker.

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Carol

Kite Runner.

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Jessica

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. A book about the love of family and of books. 🙂

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Wendy

We Are Not Ourselves – Matthew @Wells

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Sarah

A Child called It

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Ellie

A Man Called Ove! This was the first book that ever made me cry. It’s truly fantastic ? Xxx

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Diogo

What a book! “Saab.”
But try kite runner!

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Ellie

@Diogo Ove does love his Saab! ? I’ll give the Kite Runner a read. Xxx

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Diogo

@Ellie please…and you’ll think that “a man called Ove” was just a comic book ahah it’s so heavy! You’ll love it

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Ellie

@Diogo Thank you. I’ll definitely be reading it soon. It sound perfect ? Xxx

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Shahed

Boy in the striped Pyjama

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Shahed

And all books of Nekolas sparkes

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Debra

The Little Match Girl. It’s a kid’s book.

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Sabrina

Miracles in heaven

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Eileen

The Kite Runner.

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Jeanne

Where the Red Fern Grows. I was reading it aloud to my kids every night before bed. Near the end, we were all bawling as I tried to continue reading. My husband came home from work just then and was completely flummoxed as to what to do and what was going on.

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Kris

One of my all time favorite books!

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Louise

A man called Ove.
I sobbed 5 times x

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Lucy

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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Elvina

One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury!! I loved it and all of her other books.

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Katherine

The same kind of different as me by Ron Hall and Denver @Kathleen

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Cathy

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

Bridges of Madison Countyby Robert James Waller

Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom

ANY dog book or pet book.

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Becky

Sophie’s Choice

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Roxie

@Becky loved the movie

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Becky

@Roxie the book is even better!

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Sara

My book ??
’Made Again’
First part is more romance, but lots of crying in later chapters.

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Leah

I’m sure someone mentioned it, but The Art of Racing in the Rain.

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Irena

Rise of the iliri by Auryn Hadley (it’s a RH series there are currently 8 books out and 2 more to finish it). I read all 8 books in 6 days! And am still in my damn book hangover I swear this author has ruined me! Lol? ? ?

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Irena

https://www.amazon.com/BloodLust-Reverse-Harem-Fantasy-Iliri-ebook/dp/B01CPQZSPS/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1540395861&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=rise+of+the+iliri&dpPl=1&dpID=51rjcjdxEpL

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Emily

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

All The Bright Places- by Jennifer Niven

Little Bee – Chris Cleave

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Patti

A boy called it

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Lauren

Yes???

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Rebecca

A Thousand Splendid Suns and Lily and the Octopus

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Stacey

Ohhhhh yes, Lily & The Octopus. ?

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Iain

Carol O’Connell- The Judas Child, wow I really sobbed

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Juli

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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Nadine

P.S. I Love You. I have never cried so much whilst reading a book! To this day I refuse to watch the film as I know I’ll be in floods of tears!

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Tesa

The Notebook . . . sobbed.

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Colleen

The Nightingale

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Fabiola

Same here!!!

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Roxie

My very best friend by Cathy Lamb. Sobbed like a baby

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Ellen

The Same Kind of Different as Me

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Skyler

Sky in the deep made me cry so much

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Michelle

The two sadest books for me April Fools Day and The Outsiders. I cry every time I read them ?

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Cho

Katie Dale’s Someone Else’s Life

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Isabel

‘Never let me go’ and ‘The buried giant’, both by Kazuo Ishiguro, also ‘Game of thrones’ (as the 1st volume of the ‘A song of Ice and Fire’ series), I cried for Lady (Sansa’s puppy)

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Joey

Carrie for sure I literally wanted to cry at end of that book

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Jay

Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven both by Mitch Albom

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Linda

The Art of Racing in the Rain

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