It takes a lot for me to be moved to tears by a book. What’s the biggest tearjerker you have read? X
It takes a lot for me to be moved to tears by a book. What’s the biggest tearjerker you have read? X
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The Nightingale definitely!
me too!!
@Caroline me three!
The Nightingale for me too! It left me feeling bereft!
Beach Music by Pat Conroy (he also wrote Prince of Tides). I’m not a ‘crier’ either but this one got me.
I read Beach Music on an airplane and the passenger next to me must have thought I was nuts b/c I was trying so hard not to cry, but wound up sobbing.
Timetraveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Me before You by Jojo Moyes
And I’ll admit that the first time I read the final Harry Potter I was a little teary that it was all over! Was a massive part of my childhood/teenage years.
Me before you
The fault in our stars
Yeah the Fault in our Stars had some tears
The Time Traveller’s Wife.
Our fault in the stars because of Augustus. ?? don’t agree with the book ending. ?
Me before you
Yes I agree 100%
Bronze Horseman
The Nightingale
A Little Life! Had to stop reading several times
I’m with you here, just thinking about that book makes me well up!
I am reading A Little Life now. So great but hard to read some parts.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Light between oceans
The Gift by Danielle Steel.
The Funeral Party by Ulitskaya. A fabulous book. Not a tearjerker at all, by the way. Just a very deep, bright story.
A Man called Ove
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Recently (2012) it was Me Before You. I sobbed. It takes a lot to make me cry at a book and before that it was probably Thorn Birds back in my twenties
Thorne birds is beautiful I read it on my thirteenth birthday ❤️
The Nightingale
Room
The green mile. I read the book and sobbed. Saw the movie twice and still sobbed.
Dancing on broken glass
The Gift by Cecilia Ahern and A Thousand splendid suns
Not read the nightingale yet but another Kirsten Hannah’s firefly lane
Daddy by Danielle Steel and Ring by Danielle Steel.. but to be fair I was 17 then.. dont know if they will make me cry now..
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
All the bright places I sobbed for an hour
The Nightingale- one of the very few books I’ve cried over.
Me before you and a little life both Amazing books
The art of racing in the rain by Garth stein and When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Loved both of those books!
Me too. Especially the former
@Sharon was a very special book for me
I agree with Me Before You…still think of it and tear up
The Nightingale and When Breath Becomes Air. Literally the only books that have ever made me cry.
When Breath becomes Air – especially the epilogue written by his wife. That was beautifully written.
A Dogs Purpose.
A Little Life
The art of racing in the rain
Same!!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have read it multiple times and still cry.
Where the Red Fern Grows.
The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key
OMG Sarah’s key – blubbed…
I am David by Anne Holm. I have read it multiple times and always cry when I get to the last page.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman ? moved to tears more than once.
A year and a day Isabelle bloom
Me before You and A Man called Ove
Underground Railroad
Green mile.
the storyteller.
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Man and Boy by Tony Parsons.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Lost for Words by Stephanie Butland.
Night by Elie Weisel
The Book Thief
The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. The film did me in too ?
The Ballet was just the same. Equal measures of sadness and beauty.
Throne of glass series. In particular empire of storms
Boy in the striped pajamas comes to mind too
Marley and me, the art of racing in the rain….just about any dog book
The nightingale was the most recent, all time favourite is the art of racing in the rain
For me, there’s four books I cried uncontrollably. The Book Thief A Man Called Ove, The Nightingale and A Breath Becomes Air
Is it WHEN breath becomes air???? Abraham Verghese???? I just got that ordered from the Library! Have you read his other book Cutting for Stone?????? Amazing and even better on audio to hear all the accents and humor! Thank you for this tip
when breath becomes air – Paul Kalanthi
yes, I guess Verghese co wrote it Thanks
There was a foreword by Veghese, but he did not co-author this book. It is a memoir by Paul Kalanithi.
@Kathryn I wept and wept reading this. Wonderful book.
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. An absolutely brilliant book, but a hard book to get into
Birdsong – at the end.
Thank you so much everybody. I found A Little Life sad and very moving too. I think from your suggestions I am going to start with The Art of Racing in the Rain, followed by A Man Called Ove xxx
Good choices, I’ve read and enjoyed them both
Home Front by Kristen Hannah.
Frank McCourt’s “Tis”
Traveling Light….
The Light Between Oceans.
Far too many to mention but some of the best ones were The Nightingale, PS I love you, Man called Ove, The Storyteller, Me before You, Thousand Splendid Suns & the Kite Runner xx
Pay it forwards
Merle’s Door, also at the end. I was devastated.
A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Max Frisch-Homo faber
A Thousand Splendid Suns most recently.
First one – many years ago – To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Othello by Shakespeare. A Rose For Emily (It’s a short story really) by Faulkner.
I can’t remember the exact title but it was written by Lacy Petersen’s mother. I cried my eyes out from beginning to end.
I used to cry every time i read heidi when i was young! But these days its the nightingale and firefly lane!!
The Amber Spyglass. I was so hearbroken.
They were meant to be together!!
Most recently:
When Breath becomes Air
Indian Horse (wagamese was a truly gifted story teller, the first 50 pages ripped my heart out repeatedly)
Here Be Dragons
The Lovely Bones!
Recently it has to be A Little Life
Funnily enough I didn’t cry at this book. Found it harrowing and exhausting. Loved it. The main issues very close to home in what I sometimes come across in my job so maybe I detached myself a bit. Wept buckets over Sarah’s Key, The Nightingale and When Breath Becomes Air ?
I haven’t read Sarah’s key but the others made me cry too. And also The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Sarah’s Key for me was the saddest. But it is a great read x
Sarah’s key
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst. Anything written by Khaled Hosseini. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Angela’s Ashes.
Have you seen the movie? McCourt was in set every day. It’s spot on!
I never saw the movie. I also have Tis on my reading list.
@Jenny see the movie. This is great too. His brother also has books out – they are written in a similar style.
The Book Thief! I was listening to the audiobook while driving. Almost crashed because I was crying so badly toward the end of the book.
Me before you and A Dog’s Purpose…
All those years ago, Anne of Green Gables and Gone with the Wind
My Sisters Keeper. I didn’t see it coming. ?
The nightingale
The Nightingale. Filling up just thinking about it
All the Light We Cannot See and A Fine Balance
Wonderful books
We Are All Made of Stars by @Rowan ?
A LIttle Life
I cried buckets.
Silence on the monte Sole by Jack Olsen true stories of the Nazi army occupation. Just awful and so so harrowing ?
Me Before You
For me too. Still tear up when I think about it
A Little Life
Sarah’s key. It was so heartbreaking.
A Little Life
The Nightingale and The Art of Racing in the Rain have, in the past 12 months or so, had me sobbing into my Kindle!
Prince of Tides and Sophie’s Choice ?
A little life, watership down
The Last Lecture
Good night Beautiful by Lesley Lokko
The Amber Spyglass had me in floods ?
My bank statements
..
Kite runner
I still haven’t finished Kite Runner ? I wasn’t ready for it and it triggered me
@Amber one of best books ever!
I have all intentions of finishing it ❤️ I was just younger when I started reading it (19) and I didn’t really know what the book was about only that it was very good. So when it got tough to read it really hit me in the face and I had to put it down?
Two which made me cry as a little child and probably still would now were The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford and White Fang by Jack London.
If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch and The Night Circus by Erin Morkensen
A Child Called It ?
Glass Castle and (at the time) House of Mirth.
Me before You
That did it for me!
Aww same here. Cried for hours after finishing it. I think I expected a happy ending. Just recently watched the film too….dear God…eyes like pee holes in snow ???
A dogs purpose
David Nichols One Day – then I cried again when I watched the (awful) film, but for a very different reason lol
the fault in our stars is the most recent one that i read…
The Book Thief I think, the ending was heartbreaking. The Kite Runner was emotional too though.
I cried quite a lot during I Let You Go too.
Me before you. I never cry at books but this absolutely got me
Me too
A monster calls…blubbering mess during the book and the film!!!
Was such a suprisingly great film ?
I know!! Was pleasantly surprised!!
@Natalie me too ?
Me before you jojo moyes Good night beautiful…dorothy koomson . The one about rabbit hayes cant remember full title. The last days of rabbit hayes…maybe ???
The Nightingale – Kristen Hannah.
Diary of Anne Frank & Marley & Me
Never fall down by patricia mccormick
The Notebook, Dragonfly in Amber
My Sisters Keeper. Jodi Picoult
Me before you and the fault in our stars
The Nightingale by Kirsten Hannah
A thousand splendid suns and the nightingale
Totally
The Nightingale.
A monster calls
Angela’s ashes
The art of racing in the rain
We watched A Monster Calls last week and we were both sobbing. Love my weepy hubby.
Have you read the book? It is so beautifully written.
I loved the movie also <3
I’ve not read the book. I’ll look out for it.
My sister’s keeper – Jodi Picoult ?
the light of the fireflies by paul pen, and we are the ants by shaun david hutchinson
Angela’s Ashes. EXCELLENT movie, too!
The Thornbirds
Me before you…I was a wreck after!
The Bridges of Madison County
The Road and Still Alice both had me in tears.
Marley and Me
I sobbed at the end of that book – it was bad enough just looking a the photos of Marley when he was old. Red Dog was another that made me sob.
@Helen
Don’t watch film then. I won’t read book after weeping buckets watching the film shortly after Jake died. As my Mum said at the time ‘not one if my better ideas’!
Have seen the film ( book better) but knew not to watch to the end ?
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hysterical sobbing at the end.
Me Before you and The last Days of Rabbit Hayes x
Song for a Raggy Boy – Patrick Galvin
The first time I cried at a book was when I was 16 .. A long time ago .. The Deerhunter ..
Sarah’s Key – blubbed