Name a book that made you cry a while after the book was finished (mine in comments)
Name a book that made you cry a while after the book was finished (mine in comments)
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Name a book that made you cry a while after the book was finished (mine in comments)
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
@Mary-Ann me too
Me before you
A Little Life. ?
Old Yeller. I read the book to my daughter and I couldn’t stop crying trying to read it out loud. And I even knew what was going to happen!
Charlotte’s Web When I was 10 years old. Of course there have been many more, but I do remember that one. Old Yeller. Where the red Fern grows
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
Johnny Angel by Daniel Steele
There’s one scene in Manic Kingdom by Dr. Erin Stair where I cried my eyes out– the character was crying too.
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Me before you.
Maybe not after but the book that made me cry the most and stuck with me for weeks after was Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I’ve never had an author put into words so eloquently how it feels to lose your mother when your coming of age.
Also The Other Life by Ellen Meister
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin…about a school shooting and the power of forgiveness….highly recommend.
Recommended this for our book club a few months ago … great book!
The Christmas Blessing by Donna Van Liere
Tuesdays With Morrie
Bright Side by Kim Holden
The Storyteller’s Secret
The Yearling. I read it when I was a kid. I was a mess afterward.
The Bridges of Madison County
Angela’s Ashes
My Sisters Keeper
The Heart’s Invisible Furies. Makes you laugh while it’s ripping your heart out.
Just finished a memoir.A FUhrer for a F ather by Jim Davidson.sad but true.brave writer
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
A stone for Danny Fisher
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
I absolutely loved that book.
The Nightingale
Leotas Garden by Francine Rivers and Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Leota’s Garden is one of my favorite books!
Cloud Nine
Safe Haven
The last song
There’s a scene in The Joy Luck Club.
Also, A Little Life killed me
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving.
Such a goood book!
My sister’s keeper. The time travellers wife. The fault in our stars.
The Memory Book
A Little Life
The light between oceans
The boy called It
The Nightingale, Lilac Girls and Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon.
The Art of Racing in the Rain There is a scene that I tear up just thinking of .
A Little Life
Dancing on broken glass!
Ordinary Grace
The Nightingale
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
That was my choice as well.
The Book Thief
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Bloom
oh my gosh. I read your response and started crying! I’ve read this book 3 times and plan on reading it again
So many but most recently, “A Man Called Ove”.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Me Before You
The Nightingale
Beneath the Scarlet Sky
SUzanne Diary for Nicholas
Angela’s Ashes ?
Little Women (Beth was my favorite)
We were the Mulvaneys
Any Louise Penny!
Where the Red Fern Grows and the Book Thief
The Story of Edward Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Letting Ana Go
The Nightingale
Same Kind of Different As Me by Denver Moore.
Marley and Me
A Man Called Ove
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Sarah’s Key. Winter Garden. The Nightingale. .
@Tina Sarah’s Key was so incredibly sad!
Oh yes Sarah’s Key
I got chocked up in The Pearl Thief I’m Stoll reading it.
I didn’t cry with The Nightingale, almost though, but I did say out loud ‘HOLY COW’ as I closed the book. 🙂
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks.
The boy who loved clowns
The light we lost ?
@Daisy me too!!!
The Last Days Of Summer by Steve Kluger
Seabiscuit
While mortals Sleep and His Watchful Eye by Jack kavanaugh
Code Name Verity
Hunger games, redeeming love and after forever ends!! Love love these books!
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Help
The Wedding
The Fault in Our Stars, Bridge to Teribithia, and Sarah’s Key.
A Thousands Splendid Suns
The Fault in Our Stars, The Secret Daughter, and Little Bee were all major tearjerkers for me.
And the Kite Runner
Art of racing in the rain
My Sister’s Keeper and the Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks.
Me before you
Kite runner
The Shack
The Grapes of Wrath.
Storied Life of AJ Fikry
All of these yall posted And “Cutting for Stone” that book was so good
Marley & ME
The hate u give
All The Winters After. Didn’t want the story to end.