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Name the book that nearly made you cry When Reading it?????

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Jocelyn

I ugly cried reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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Amy

There are many …. Mostly Jodi Picoult’s books

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Kathy

The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

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Nancy

I really want to read that one.

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Elizabeth

Wonder

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Darlene

Firefly lane…Kristin Hannah

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Jodie

‘Things I want my daughters to know’ has me crying on the first page

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Lisa

Who is the author? Elizabeth Noble?

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Jodie

@Lisa that sounds familiar. I read it years ago. It’s the one where the mother wrote a letter to her daughters before she dies and that’s how the book starts

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Lisa

@Jodie, then that’s definitely the one I thought it was. When I looked up the name of the book the search came back with 2 of the same titles. Thanks for the recommendation ?

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Kami

Small Great Things

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Hikaru

1984 made me cry
Me before you almost did
But there so many I can’t count. Those are my latest reads so….

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Sangeetha

The book-thief
The fault in our Stars

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Amy

Same here

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Sangeetha

????

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Debbie

The final few chapters of The Bone Tree.

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Gail

Me before you by Jojo Moyes

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Amy

Same here

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Hillary

Carnage

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Laura

More than this – the whole series. ??

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Anna

I was going to write down all the books that made me shed tears but the length of the list is really quite embarrassing ? I will say that Mockingjay destroyed me! Still have not recovered. Also, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined and Second Chance Summer were tear-jerkers. I’ll leave it at that lol

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Patricia

Centennial . . . I did cry!

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Jennifer

Nearly made me cry? Lots and lots. Actually cry – and I mean U.G.L.Y cry: When Breath Becomes Air, A Man Called Ove, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Monster Calls. Just off the top of my head.

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GM

Strength and Courage by Susan Fanetti, Fearless by Lauren Gilley, Wrath and Bones by AJ Aalto.

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Gail

A thousand splendid suns

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Jo

Actually cried – Before I Die by Jenny Downham

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Chelsea

The Book Thief made my cry. Hard.

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Carmen

The last one was Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

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Maria

call me by your name by Andre Aciman. CRIED! So much!

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Grace

Me before you

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Erica

13 reasons why, fault in our stars, my sister’s keeper have all made me cry!

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Amy

MY sisters keeper

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Sian

tears of mirth or grief?

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Iman

A Little Life

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Haley

Following

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Neon

I don’t think I’ve found one yet.

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Sian

Neither have I @Neon– tears of mirth yes, but no tears of grief.

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Neon

A few movies, very few have stirred me. But I always try to hold it in.

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Sian

Same here.

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Sandra

Black and Blue. I did cry.

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Neon

That was a great book. I read it for a domestic abuse class years ago.

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Sian

I do not know that book, sounds really sad.

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Kiran

Charlotte’s Web, bridge to Tarabithia, the little princess, watership down (well, that kinda terrified me too)

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Nancy

A Snowflake in My Hand by Samantha Mooney and If Wishes Were Horses by Loretta Gage. I sob reading both of them, every single time.

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Melody

The Hate You Give

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Csilla

I loved it! ? And i cried too. :'(

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Csilla

Not nearly. ? I never cry “nearly”. I’m crying wholeheartly, and almost every book made me crying. But i got some ugly crying by The Book Thief, A darker shade of magic, Harry Potter-series, almost every Dune-book, Humans by Matt Haig, etc, etc. ??? Almost every book, as i said. ?

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Jamie

Bridges Over Madison County made me emotional

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Gail

That book made me cry for hours. So beautifully written and so heartbreakingly sad

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Nancy

FireFly Lane -Kristen Hannah.

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Michelle

Home Again – Kristen Hannah

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Amber

Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas, Sam’s Letters to Jennifer, The Best of Me, Safe Haven

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Alison

Fang by Maximum ride. It’s the first book I openly let myself cry like a baby reading.

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Becky

The Nightingale, by Kristen Hannah.

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Donna

Still Alice

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Jocelyn

Yes! Me too!

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Johanna

Angela’s Ashes was sooooo sad

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Mj

Tuesdays with Morrie

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Jeanne

Fault in our stars, Harry potter and the order of the Phoenix.

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Anne

I want to read something that makes me laugh as I’m very elderly and need laughter in my life. I’m so tired of angry or bitter people telling other people what not to write. I just want to read something uplifting that will bring a smile to my face. Grateful for being able to write and read. I’m so diminished by seeing the Sunday comics making fun of the stereotypes of older people with loses such as teeth or a need for assistive devices, etc. What’s making people laugh at loss due to age in the usual Sunday newspaper comics? I’d prefer the papers joke about the energy of youth because so far few have written/illustrated comics about the wisdom of age.

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Deryl

Call The Midwife

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David

Angela’s Ashes.i just could not finish it. Maybe il try again one day..

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Kelly

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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Margal

A Dog’s Journey.

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Misty

Sophie’s Choice

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Cassie

The Book Thief completely destroyed me

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Danielle

Kitchen House made me cry several times

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Catherine
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Karen

Put C and… Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, we were Liars, If I Stay, all creatures great and small, lessons from a sheepdog, The Incredible Journey, Because of Winn-Dixie, Shiloh, Lonesome Dove,

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Alesha

Driven series by k. Bromberg

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Tamarra

Following ?

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Anindita

I haven’t cried while reading, yet. But I felt sad while reading The Butterfly Garden, esp the parts when the lead char talks of her early childhood

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Margal

The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck.

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Karen

Of Mice and Men

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Emmi

Watership down made me cry ? ?

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Karen

As two kids books… Hands Down, The Velveteen Rabbit

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Philip

Les Miserables and Beach Music

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Kříș

Tuesdays with Morrie

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Cathy

Suzanne’s Diary to Nicholas…I cried. Also Bridges of Madison County…Hate List…some of thowe above.

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Leslie

Marley and Me—I was pregnant when I read it and I cried my EYES OUT! LOL!

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Cathy

Yes…I swore I would read no more dog books…then, I read that one. Again I said no more, but have been requested to read A Dog’s Purpose and The Art of Racing in the Rain….?

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Lucinda

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (Battle Scene). Bawled like a baby over a couple of the characters. Then I got numb

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Leslie

Oh yes, I cried too. Fred’s death nearly did me in! Oh, and the others, LOL! I don’t know why, though, Fred really got me bawling my eyes out and I wasn’t even pregnant at the time I read it!

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Lucinda

@Leslie I tried to avoid spoilers. Yes, his is the one that made me just bawl. I was numb by the time I got to Tonks and Lupin.

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Emily

The fault in our stars

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Katy

Too many to name.

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Joan

The nightingale. Me before you

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Tess

Ghostwriter by Alessandra Torre

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Waad

Me before you and the glass castle

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Annette

Too many to list here.

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Wendy

A monster calls

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Kelly

that book made me literally sob

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Shecca

TO TAME A MAVERICK BY CM OWENS AND A FEW OF THE BOOKS IN THE ALVAREZ SECURITY SERIES

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Jennifer

Waiting by Ha Jin

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Jauharatul

wanted by her lost love. maya banks

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David

Calico Joe. It did.

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Samantha

The Art of Racing In The Rain

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Cindy

The nightingale

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Michaela

The little prince

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Sam

any Nicolas Sparks books make me cry. especially best of me… tear jerker!

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Laura

Me Before You made me bawl like a baby.

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Sherry

Black Beauty

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Minnie
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Amy

Never Let Me Go

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Connie

I am a crier. I don’t nearly do it. It gets ugly.And it can be pretty much any book.

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Maggie

Tiger, Tiger, the memoir. Never before have I felt utterly disgusted and depressed at the same time :'( Killed me. lol

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Grace

A Man Called Ove

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Rob

Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon. If you’ve read it you can probably guess which scene got me.

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Susan

A child called it. It was devastating what that poor boy endured at the hands of his own mother.

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Alice

The Souls of Black Folk…

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Suzette

Freak the Mighty.

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Dara

The Nightingale, Night Road, My Sisters Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Sing You Home, The Guardian (hell…just about anything by Nicholas Sparks), The Glass Castle…

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Maan

“La Dame aux Camelias”(The Lady of the Camellias), By Alexandre Dumas, fils

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Johanna

The Message in the Bottle definitely 🙁

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Damon

East of Eden. John Steinbeck

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Laurel

Royal Atlas by HJ Bellus ???

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Em

Room by Emma Donoghue

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Adam

The Outsiders,
And it really did.

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Jessica

I cry reading all the time, honestly. I cry writing too. Words are powerful things.

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Leonie

Trust me by Lesley pearse, both times I read it I cried

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Victoria

This one did make me Heart of Marley by @T.k.

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Lennine

I cry all the time. I really get into the character.

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Amulya

A child called it by Dave pelzers and the fault in our stars by John Green

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Sheila

Dark Promises made me cry

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Caylynn

The Code of Claw, last book in Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. There were so many deaths and I read it in middle school. It’s probably one of three books that’s ever made me cry.

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Donna

Not just nearly.

I wept copiously in two places while reading Written In My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon.

Also: Marley and Me and A Dog’s Purpose…animal stories are always tear-jerkers.

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Gemma

Marly and me

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Hela

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

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Donna

Black Dagger Brotherhood J.R Ward – The Shadows I was sobbing. Those tears were real.

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Oh

Thousand splendid suns

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Emily

Crown of Midnight

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Sage

Marley & Me and Memoirs of a Geisha.

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Mandy

I refused to read the last chapter of Marly and Me!

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Catherine

The entire shatter me series every time reading it ☺️?

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Chirag

Animal Farm ?

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Kadhijah

It made you cry?? No wonder… That is how we ppl r deceived !

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Haley

Never read this, is it a sad story, I didn’t think it was! It’s on my tbr

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Kim

I rarely cry… I think it was last year when I read a monster calls…

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Kadhijah

THE man in the Iron Mask by Alxandre Dumas .. It’s the unfortunate son of King Louis xiii who made me cry…

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Judith

Are you kidding me? I cry every time Dobbie dies.

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Susan

“The Book Thief”

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Brandy

I have never cried after reading a book

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Briana

Dobby, Snape, Dumbledore, HEDWIG…. Harry Potter books kill me ???

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Amber

I know…. I was bawling for all of them….

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Briana

I know!!! I have to reread them soon, it’s about that time lol. 😉

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Amber

Same…. Once I get my library books and the one’s i have from the library read, I will be doing that…

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Briana

I’m still on my reread through of the In Death series by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb so I have a while to go. 😉

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Amber

Oh same here. Maybe by Christmas. I have an entire series to read and the newest books in my James Patterson series that I read coming out… so that makes (James Patterson books) 5 books but 3 are gonna be all read in May and 2 i have to wait until October and November… so my series I’m reading now and the stand alones should keep me busy until then.

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Karen

I cry over anything touching. When my parents corrected me. Walking up the aisle, and down, at my wedding (happily). Any of Nicholas Sparks’ books, especially.

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Mandy

The Fault In Our Stars. ???

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Henry

Where the Red Fern Grows….not nearly….oh and Charlotte’s Web. Two of my favorite books to read decades later.

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Errin

Trinity by Leon Uris.

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Minnie

On my TBR list!!! I haven’t read it yet!!! So you really enjoyed it?!??

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Errin

I first read it 30 years ago… and I cried like a baby. I should reread it again.

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Minnie

Going to have to move it up my list!!❤️?❤️

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Isa

I cried like a baby at A Thousand Splendid Suns. One of the best books I’ve ever read! That and The Kite Runner, both by Khaled Hosseini

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Yamilla

The boy in the striped pyjamas?

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Iris

When breath becomes air.

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Jennifer

The Red Ibis, and I Am the Cheese (it’s been a while).

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Darling

The one I’m currently writing…and I’m not sure if it’s because of the content or out of frustration.

Also, I am reading Game Change by Ken Dryden.

It has made me cry because it discusses mental health issues, concussions, suicides, and some pretty heavy stuff that hockey players, other high impact athletes, their friends, and families have had to deal with because of everything related. All that has impacted my life and is very real to me.

I weep for them and I weep for what I cannot recall and how this impacts my future.

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Rachel

the boy in the striped pyjamas

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Carrie

Me Before You…A Breath of Snow and Ashes…The War that Saved My Life…Catch 22 (laughed so hard i cried)

Can you tell I’m a crier.

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