Do you remember the very first book that made you cry? (Fess up boys. It’s okay. With books you are in your own world)
Do you remember the very first book that made you cry? (Fess up boys. It’s okay. With books you are in your own world)
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Valley of the Dolls
Heidi
When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester. I was in Jr high when I read it and it was just such a messed up book.
of mice and men
Where the red fern grows
Les Misérables.
The only book till date that has made me cry.
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
That book tore me up. Sad for a week.
The Outsiders!
Me too!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, when Mycroft didn’t come back
Old Yeller
A walk to remember, harry potter
The Real Story of Bambie
A Man Called Ove. First, and only. So far.
Bright Side by Kim Holden ?
Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Charlotte’s Web ?
Love Story.
I think I read this one before The Outsiders, which I know I cried harder over.
A Child Called “It”
Sarah’s Key
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
Will have to read that one!
You should. It deserves every mind’s time and energy.
I don’t remember the first but I remember that the best of me by Nicholas sparks made me weep like a baby I cried so hard I woke my husband out of
His sleep
The Lady with the Camellias
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. I knew how it ended before I read the book, but it was incredible how he survived and made it home even when his teammates didn’t.
Seriously none
Boys don’t cry? I’ve read lot books that made me feel sad but not cry.. sometimes i do that when i watch a sad movie, i find it hard crying for a book..
Man Child in the Promise Land by Claude Brown.
The last two pages of “A Tale of Two Cities”
Tess of the D’urbervilles
The 5th Harry Potter book neer the end of the book there’s a death that just shouldn’t of happened if you’ve read the series and the book you know who’s death it was it made it hard for me to read the 6th book
The Stand.
Little Women. Read it in 3rd grade
My first book, about woodland animals
One of them got lost and almost died.
A Walk to Remeber. Gosh darn Nicholas Sparks ????
My sisters keeper
None, so any recommendations are good- edited yes I got upset reading David Nivens autobiography “The Moons A Balloon”
Two kisses for Maddie.
Night by Elie Wiesel damn near killed me. My son was about 1 1/2 years old when I read it. When I got to the part about them throwing children 2 & under in the furnace after ripping them from their mothers, I lost it.
Leaving Time/Jodi Picoult. At the very last sentence.?
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult I was in high school and cried liked a baby
“Achtste groepers huilen niet”. It’s a Dutch book, called “Eightgraders don’t cry”. My teacher read it to me in eight grade, and she cried. It’s a story about a little girl with cancer, and how her classmates handle it (spoiler, she dies). My teacher’s sister had cancer and she couldn’t finish it. My grandpa just passed away from lungcancer, so I cried soooo much.
Some of the Harry Potter books did that to me. I am sure when I was younger there were others, but I can’t remember.
The Green Mile.
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
Charlotte’s Web
Where the red fern grows..broke my heart.
Yes!
Where the red fern grows. Both book and movie had me emotional
Replay by Ken Grimwood
The Five People You Meet In Heaven?
A Stone for Danny Fisher, Harold Robbins.
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
A Boy Called It.
A Child Called It
I think Marley and Me by John Grogan made me cry however No Turning Back by Susan Lewis made me cry as well.
thousand splendid suns
“Malka”, age 10.
I think it was either Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim, or A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Man, that social worker interaction with Jude made me so sad.
Who Has Seen The Wind. (W.O. Mitchell.)
Breeze
Kama Sutra
I’ve cried at so many books, I remember the book My Girl (of Macaulay Culkin fame) making me sob but there will have been lots before then
Jessica by Bryce Courtney
To all the boys I loved before
The Grapes of Wrath
Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson. I bawled like a baby.
Of Mice & Men, but I know there has to be one before that. I just can’t think that far back haha.
Me before you tore me apart
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner – was at work on my lunch when it made me cry!
Charlotte’s Web
At age 9, no doubt about it , Old Yeller.
A series of unfortunate events. The end
It was My sweet orange tree from Jose Mauro de Vasconselos. Read it when I was young
Probably Little Women.
It had to be one of the books in the Dresden Files series. They’re fun adventurous books but they can have some cry worthy endings.
A Stone For Danny Fisher
The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich
Where the red fern grows
The Bible. I was 5. So much death & destruction. I never understood why people couldn’t figure out what to do.
Anne Frank diary
Hhhmmm…I don’t really think it was the first cause I’m pretty sure I’ve cried due to books before but when I was about 7 I cried at a dog rescue book because someone wanted to take away the dog’s voice so it wouldn’t bark anymore and I thought that was the saddest thing ever lol
(spoiler) The book “Wizard & Glass” from the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The part when Roland’s true love, Susan Delgado, is burned at the stake. The sense of loss is keenly felt.
Eddie got me. ☹️
Where the Red Fern Grows.
the horse whisperer.. I’ve seen the movie first and read the book later and the ending is toootally different and it gutted me :((
Yes, it was the Mahabharat.
Ramayana by c. Rajagolachari can also make you cry
Thanks for ur response. It’s really good. I had read it years ago.
Gone With the Wind. The first time I read it I was 12.
November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer. Caught me completely off guard!
Temple of the Wind by Terry Goodkind
It was a very… emotionally taxing book. But it was fricking amazing.
The biography of Harriet Tubman
Lad A Dog made me cry.
Old Yeller
I cry at every sad thing in the books, so i don’t remember. Maybe Harry Potter? It was the first “serious” book what i read at my childhood…
Old Yeller
Swami and Friends
huck finn, little women, diary of anne frank
The Fault In Our Stars stands out the most! Real tears and boohooing for that one!
The Notebook….
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Husseni.