Looking for books to make me cry!!! Like, I want to lay in my own puddle of tears. Any recommendations?
Looking for books to make me cry!!! Like, I want to lay in my own puddle of tears. Any recommendations?
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The Book Thief
The summer remains by seth king
The Fault in Our Stars
Kite Runner
Old Yeller
Did you know that the guy who wrote The Kite Runner also wrote a book titled A Thousand Splendid Suns and it is lay down in your own tears and cry all night kinda book.
My Sister’s Keeper
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Me before you
Anything by Mitch Albom (Tuesday’s with Morrie, One more Day, Five People You Will Meet In Heaven, The Time Keeper etc…)
A Monster Calls.
Agreed.
Yes. Movie too was good!
Movie was very good.
Agreed.I have only read the book and it truly made me cry.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski. It’s a book of short stories, based on his own experience. It’s what he doesn’t say, what he just hints at, which gets to you. Do not read in public.
A Little Life
I had an epic book hangover after I finished that one last year!
Yea me too??I cried for 2 days thinking about that book..But I but hesitant to suggest to ppl because of self abuse and all most ppl get put off reading such books…
A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey.
I LOVED those books <3
I just watched the movie A dog’s purpose and saw your comment. I never even knew there was a book. ?
Lilac girls by Martha hall Kelly
All The Bright Places
My Sister’s Keeper
Marely and Me
A List of Cages, History is all you Left me, All The Light We Cannot See and We Are Okay
Shanghi girls by Lisa See… a story of sisterhood, set in a historical time period filled with drama…had me sobbing sad tears, happy tears, emotionally drained tears lol
If you like ya/middle grade books, Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume is a tear jerker.
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
If I Stay
The Fault In Our Stars by John Greene and Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
Oh the whole damn Outlander series.
I cried so hard reading the last of the series while eating alone in a restaurant, two waitresses came over to ask if I was okay.
With wet cheeks and a runny nose, I confessed a favorite child died in my book.
I LOVE books that make me cry.
One of favorites is Calling Me Home by
Julie Kibler.
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
White Rebel Rose or Rebel White Rose…a heart breaker…
Never forgotten by Kelly risser it’s free on amazon Kindle
This book is very interesting. It will make you feel all kinds of emotions, and it will also make you feel sinful for crying (the love in this story goes against the norm, and is far from acceptable (hence the name).
Forbidden – Tabitha Suzuma
Heartless by Marissa Meyer lol
The Dark Light of Day by T.M. Frazier as s well as The Art of Racing in the Rain
I want to read this
This is on my TBR list!
Fault in our stars
Wally Lamb… She’s Come Undone and This Much I Know is True.
Sarah’s Key
Outlander
The First Phone Calls from Heaven, any Chicken Soup for the Soul makes me cry. I still haven’t been able to read Joyce Carol Oates book Missing Mom.
Josie~~Suzannes Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson. Some of it is based on actual events, read it in a night, bawled like a baby. (& I’m not a cryer!) ?
@Heather?
The Watchers Trilogy by SJ West. You’ll weep for the state of literature and your wasted time ???
Any book by Kristin Hannah
I think after I finished The Winter Garden, I just sat and cried for like 10 min lol.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I cried for like 3 days just thinking about it.
A dog’s purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
A Child called it
I hv just bought it! Now u hv increased my excitement.?
@Amulya I read it when I was like 14 and it was so crazy
Pay it forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
My sister’s keepee
Great.it’s on my tbr list.❤
It’s a lovely book..I cried like a baby?
The Nightengale. I not only cried reading it but also cried when telling my man about it. Sooooo good.
Infernal devices…
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I cried buckets full.
Nicholas Sparks is the author for you. Most of his books have me chunking great big sobs
I commented before reading your comment. I second this! ?
Me too! Message in a bottle ripped my soul apart. I had to take a break from it, cause I couldn’t see the pages ?
@Heather agreed. Message in a bottle was a real tear jerker, the notebook was also one that had me actually sobbing….. no ladylike tears…..great big gulping sobs. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the movies, the books were just that good that I’m sure a movie couldn’t compete
I actually loved most of the movie for Message in a Bottle. The part I thought silly was Garrett and Catherine counting time between lightning and thunder, it was a bit too over acted childish. The rest was quite moving!
thank you soooooo much everyone i just added a bunch of new books to my to-read list you guys are awesome!! ?
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
&
Dr. Zhivago
A Light Between Oceans.
The Notebook.
The last days of Rabbit Hayes
A monster calls
The Child Called It by David Pelzer , anything by Torey Hayden if you want real stories to make you cry. A Walk to Remember or The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks… oh and Message in a Bottle for fiction.
A thousand boy kisses by Tillue Cole….my hubby thought the dog died the way I was crying 😉
Sounds like I need to read this!
The innocent man by John grisham
@Alane u read it before?tear jerker story?
Yes, the innocent man made me cry, i can relate to the story
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson.
The Time Traveler’s Wife
A lot of crying…
im reading that one right now! ☺️
The Paul street boys by Ferenc Molnár
PS I Love you
Josie~~I saw that movie…it was so sad to me that I couldn’t bring myself to read the book—yet. (Although it is one of my favorites!)
I loved that book so much that I cannot reread the book…I am so scared to even touch the book because I know that book will break my heart into pieces ( No I am not being Dramatic)
It Ends With Us Coleen Hoover
I love this book too!! Different Romance book..The moment you understand the meaning of the title..?I loveeed it..
Josie~~That title is on my “to buy” list. I read it, was happy, was sad…then glad!
Yea I had the same reaction” What no!! Then “yea that’s right” then I was like “OH YEA THIS SHOULD BE THE END” this book bought all those emotions from me..
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Me before you and everything everything <3
Josie~~Come Back To Me by Mila Gray?
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
One Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
‘Tis and Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Any books by Sarah J Maas
… will make you sob incoherently for months afterwards..
God I love that woman and her writing!
Just about everything from Kristin Hannah
Charlotte’s web
If you like poetry, everything is terrible by Alex Vellis will have you in tears
This Love by Dani Atkins or Bright Side by Kim Holden
Nicholas Sparks Message in a Bottle
The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks
@Stacey…thanks for tagging me in this! ?
@Aliner…try anything by Nicolas Sparks. Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook. Nicolas Sparks has an amazing gift to make women cry ?
Bridges of Maddison County is another great book to cry to. But, if you’re looking for a good cry that’s not romance, try The Color Purple or Old Yeller will rip your heart out and crush it beneath their literary feet ?
No problem
A Dog’s Purpose https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7723542-a-dog-s-purpose?from_search=true
I was searching for a book which had animal in it for book bingo this sounds so cool…I think I will be reading this…thanks!!!
Once by Sarah Crossan❤️
A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed, The Light Between Oceans, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Marley and Me
Anything by Nicholas Sparks (except the memoir), The Lovely Bones, Love Story by Erich Segal, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, (or anything, really) by Jodi Picoult
The Lovely Bones and Storyteller are on my great reads list. I loved them!
Oh yes, forgot about the Lovely Bones. I wheeped. It was heartbreaking.
Good book.
Henry’s sisters by Cathy Lamb. I was blabbing. ?
The book thief
I’ve heard “The Art of Running in the Rain” does the trick.
Anything by Sarah J. Maas to be honest…
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Boy-Kisses-Tillie-Cole-ebook/dp/B01CXYSEB2/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1496694277&sr=8-10&keywords=tillie+cole
https://www.amazon.com/Joni-Underway-Kelly-Oram-ebook/dp/B00YDSK0J6/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1496694321&sr=8-21&keywords=kelly+oram
Room and The Road.
Room was great and perfect suggestion for a book that will make you cry
The fault in the stars
“Jude the Obscure” by Thomas Hardy
That’s some hard reading lol.
I LOVE Thomas Hardy, though!
Try Jodi Picoult and Khaled Hosseini.
The choices we make by Karma brown
Marley and Me, The Art if Racing in the Rain, The Time Traveller’s Wife ?
My Sister’s Keeper
thanks so much everyone!!! ???
Thank you so much, guys. <3<3
The lost wife by Alyson Richman, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, Sarah’s key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls, Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks, The help by Kathleen Stockett