Hi ladies! What is a book that made you cry? I rarely cry because of a book but i like when an author is able to do that (i know its weird?)
Hi ladies! What is a book that made you cry?
I rarely cry because of a book but i like when an author is able to do that (i know its weird?)
The notebook Nicholas sparks x
Tin man by Sarah winman and it takes a lot to make me cry
Academy Street by Mary Costello
The green mile
My Sister’s Keeper and Me Before You. X
Dear Everly.
Shadow of the wind. Xx
Ah i have that one on my tbr! I’m gonna try it. Thanks!! X
@Shareefa i honestly loved it. Took me a while to get right into.it but remember loving it and it was very emotional xx
Me Before You and The Tattooist of Auschwitz
I agree with the tattooist of Auschwitz. Very sad.
Yes both of these
A Monster Calls and A Man Called Ove made me laugh and cry at the same time.
Both excellent books!
The last days of Rabbit Hayes was the last one to make me cry – reading on the train and tears leaked!
Me before you broke my heart x
A boy called it
A very sad and horrific book. Had to read it to the end. Will never read it again.
I have all of Dave Pelzers books. His most insperational one is Help yourself. Its so nice to read how he spends so much time as a happy, strong adult helping other people. X
@Amanda Same. I sort of wish I had never read it as it has stayed in my head for years.
@Michelle try reading about Joseph Fritzell who kept his daughter locked on his celler for about 20 years and had 7 kids with her
@Susan I went through a stage of reading a lot of books like that but now I try to stick to fiction otherwise I dwell too much on the bad stuff. I did enjoy Room though as although it was based on stories like that it was fiction and not too gloomy.
@Michelle loved Room. I alternate between psycological fiction and humour. Just read Peter Kay’s second book. Love him to bits
@Susan Haven’t read that yet but love Peter Kay. I must get around to that one soon!
@Michelle that’s exactly the same. But as I started It I felt I had to finish it. If this man could live it and write about it the least I could do was finish it. It’s haunted me ever since.
@Amanda Can’t clean my bathroom with bleach without remembering it. Amazing how that guy came out of it all so positively.
@Michelle he is and will be forever with me. He is definitely an amazingly strong guy.
Broken by Shy Keenan
A child called it. Had me in tears ?
Me before you. I ugly cried!
Of Mice and Men. I sobbed at that! X
I think this was the first book to make me cry when I was about 13. ?
Goodnight beautiful by Dorothy koomson xx
Broke my heart ?
The stand by Stephen king
The Lion Tamer Who Lost by @Louise
The Light Between Oceans.
All Victoria Hislop books
Boy in the striped pyjamas, our story and This love by Dani Atkins, my sister keeper to name a few.
Boy in stripped pyjamas had me blubbing for hours after I’d finished it and it’s never left me xx
@Jo it’s haunting isn’t it.
@Bêc it certainly is xx
Goodnight Beautiful & The Nightingale. xx
All The Bright Places
The five people you meet in heaven
Last days of rabbit hayes had me crying at chapter one!!
My Sister’s Keeper
The Fault in our Stars
The Lovely Bones
Adam Bede ?
The Last days of Rabbit Hayes made me cry almost start to finish
A thousand splendid suns. I was actually sobbing on the tram on the way home from work x
Goodnight Mister Tom
PS I Love You
Love this book so much. The film was good too. X
I cried on the first page.
I cried at this aswell?
A Little Life, most recently. Quite a lot of books make me cry tho, reading is what cracks my cold hard heart open the teeniest of ways ?
I agree so sad?
Ironically titled ‘How to be happy’ sobbed and sobbed.
Me too.
I’m reading it now – I’ll get the tissues ready!
It’s a lovely book
I’ve just started this
It’s non-fiction but “The Last Girl” by Nadia Murad… it’s completely harrowing.
I have a heart of stone, but my sisters keeper! Xx
The Book Thief had me howling
Me before you x
Almost all books by khaled hosseini or Mitch Albom? also, ‘random acts of heroic love’ by Danny Scheinmann
How to be happy
Cornflakes for dinner. Laughed and cried the whole way through
If just downloaded this x
Bright side by Kim Holden is the only one that’s ever made my eyes leak.
The light between oceans ?
The Time Travellers Wife x
The Fault In Our Stars.
A walk to remember and notebook. like you I don’t generally cry at books but they both upset me xx
Charlotte’s Web ?
Me before you
A thousand boy kisses ?
The last day a of Rabbit (can’t remember the surname) and I mean I wept!!
Last days of Rabbit Hayes. So sad.
Under the Hawthorne tree..great book!Had me ??
Voice in the wind by Francine rivers
A Little Life
A Man Called Ove. What a fabulous book ?
The book thief!! Oh man
Wonder
Me before you ?
Three and a half heartbeats, Harry Potter, The Nightingale, me before you
The story teller by Jodi picoult x
A dogs purpose, also a dogs purpose dvd
I just read The Nightingale and I don’t think I’ve ever sobbed at a book before.. but wow this one got me!
Oh and The Book Thief is pretty tear jerking too!
The time traveller’s wife xx
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe and The Color Purple – and I’m not a sobby person!
Those both made me bawl and 2 if my favourite books
Likewise
The boy in the striped pajamas ?
And Me Before You, and My Sisters Keeper, and Black Beauty…think I’m a bit of a cryer when reading though x
A thousand splendid suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Little Life, Roots, Room
Me before you. Was on a sunbed in Ibiza blubbering
The Nightingale – I was in bits at the end!
Definitely!
Agreed, I properly cried at this book and can’t remember the last time that happened!! xx
I sobbed during and after reading Me Before You.
Ps I love you
The Secret Life of Bees, Me Before You (as Rebecca above), The Help
What we did on our holiday
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes and The Hearts Invisible Furies got me blubbing and laughing in equal measures this year.
Loved The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
I let him go!!! James bulger story! X
Bridges of Madison County
Nightingale, my sisters keeper , the storyteller ???
The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Green Mile
My sisters keeper
I cried at that one too – in a coach on holiday!
PS I love you by Cecelia Aherne and Is anybody out there by Marian Keyes
Ps I love you. great book x
Looking for Alaska
Marley & me
Definitely had me in years too xx
Tears!
I like to read the book before I watch a film. I always find it ruins it for me the other way round. Proper sobs this book induced! The lip quivering type ??x
A little life
The horse whisperer.
I don’t often cry at all, but I felt teary at the end of ‘let me lie’ x
Really can’t think watership down was one and another that brought me close was The Weather in the Streets about an affair and abortion prob 1930/40 time
Poppy Shakespeare didn’t get me crying but got me very near as I had a friend in a similar position to Poppy.
One Day
The Bookthief! ??
Me too ? x
The choice by Nicholas sparks, much better than the film
House Of The Spirits absolutely slayed me, but I can cry at books quite easily!
One Day. I did proper sobbing on the bus.
Out loud.
I cried at that too!
I think it was because it was my generation. So much of it resonated with me and I was so caught up in it. I did like the film too.
I refuse to watch the film as I loved the book so much.
The film is good despite them casting an American!!!! Dex is brilliantly played. Forgotten actors name. He was also in The Other Boleyn Girl as Anne’s brother.
The same author wrote A Starter for Ten and the film had James McAvoy <> so it’s worth it all somehow ?
I was in Edinburgh at the same time it was set, so it resonated even more.
It’s my favourite novel, nothing has made such an impact on me as that story.
One Day without a doubt. Proper sobbing in disbelief.
P.S. I love you. Miles sadder than the movie. I broke my heart at it. And me before you. Xx
We need to talk about kevin had me rushing from my sunlounger to get to my room before sobbing noisily. And the color purple many years ago x
The Thorn Birds, Me Before You
Oh the Thorn Birds!!!
I loved the novels when I was a teen!
Lily and the octopus. Unusual book, took a few chapters to get into, but once I did I found it heart wrenching and I was practically sobbing at the end.
I’ve read so many but these are the ones I remember. Edited to add: they all based on real life
1. Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
2. A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
3. ‘Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
4. Gipsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
I really fancied do no harm. It’s written by a brain surgeon isn’t it? Would you recommend it? Xx
@Carole Yes, and I’d definitely recommend it. xx
The Time Travellers Wife reduced me to a sobbing mess when I finished it at four in the morning.
My husband took this book off me and put it in the freezer (friends refrence) because I was crying too much!
I’m so glad to hear this – the first person I knew who’d read it had no emotional reaction to it at all. But I’ve met several since who said it broke them!
Me before you
Cant remember the name of the book but the main charactor was called Precious.
Push?
@Jessica yes thats it. I saw the film, ordered the book from amazon but its written in french!
Ah crap! ? my French is barely good enough to get me a coffee.
@Jessica would love to find this book (written in english)
Je mapelle Susan. Jadore coffee, lol ?
There’s loads on amazon x
@Jessica it was from amazon
did you check the listing detials? they usually have the language listed x
Bridge to Terabithia
The film made me cry so much
@Sammy yes I can’t watch the film with the kids cause they all laugh at me. Have to get up and busy myself ?
But it’s so embarrassing when you’re on the tube or the bus!
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas… the only one I remember really making me cry
The notebook & the fault in our stars
All The Bright Places. Every single time I read it
A Fine Balance.
A beautiful mind
Ps I love you, I read this on holiday and was crying from like page 2. I had to periodically lift my sunglasses out the way so my tears could fall
Wonder is the last book to do this to me.
About to read this with my kids!!
Bridge to Terabithia, Cry No More by Linda Howard, Testament of Youth by Vera Britten, Ps I love you by Celia Ahead, The fault in our stars by John Green, Will you remember me by Amanda Prowse
Me before you. ? and The Time Traveller’s Wife which is one of my favourite books of all time x
How to be happy, Captain Corelli’s mandolin and bridge to Terabithia
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Time Traveller’s Wife, The Fault In Our Stars, Before I Go To Sleep, The Green Mile, plus most of the child abuse stories I’ve read. Also, Fifty Shade of Grey, because I connected with Ana on a very deep level, despite the writing.
The Green Mile! Ohhhh how I sobbed
The Green Mile should have an emotional warning on the cover. X
Only Child and A Monster Calls
A Child Called It, How To Be Happy
Read all of the child called it series. Brilliant books
Harry Potter – the chapter when it was revealed Snape loved Lilly Potter and more recently
The one we loved – Paige Toon, I didn’t see the twist coming x
Before I die J Downham when the father buys the ice lollies
Me before you
Ps I love you, so much better than the film
Me before you
The Fault In Our Stars, not even deaths, just where she can’t storm out because of her machine ?
Babycakes by Armistead Maupin. You have to have read the preceding books though.
Girl Unbroken by Regina Calcaterra, a true story.
Anything written by Guy Gavriel Kay. Every single one of his books makes me cry. Every time I read them. And I run through them every couple of years.
Ohhhh,I’ve had a quick look,they sound great! Where would you recommend I start?!
I started with the Fionavar Tapestry series: Summer Tree, Wandering Fire, Darkest Road. Then Lions of al-Rassan and Song for Arbonne. Slide east towards the Palm of’Regana’. Then Under Heaven, A River of stars, Children of Earth and Sky and round off with Ysabel, which brings us back to characters from Fionavar.
Apart from the Fionavar Tapestry they’re pretty much stand alone, and I’ve left out his Sarantium novels as I never really got into them.
He merges history and fantasy beautifully, with legend and myth adding to his magic. I love them
They sound great, thank you x
Good luck and I hope you enjoy them x
26a by Diana Evans
Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
I’m sure there have been others too but definitely those two in particular
A Monster Calls
The fault in our stars
A thousand splendid suns
Where my heart used to beat by Sebastian Faulks
one day x
Goodnight beautiful Dorothy Koomson … broke my heart !! X