On the hunt for a good tear jerker. Bonus points if it’s historical fiction.
On the hunt for a good tear jerker.
Bonus points if it’s historical fiction.
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On the hunt for a good tear jerker.
Bonus points if it’s historical fiction.
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
I 2nd The Nightengale
100 % The Nightingale
And I Darken trilogy.
That sounds good. Thanks for the referral! 😉
@Kim you’re welcome! I loved it.
I’ve got the Nightingale on hold at my library. I’m still a couple months out. :'(
@Kim it is well worth the wait!
Get it for yourself for Christmas or ask for it as a gift
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It is set in the 1800s in China.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Got it on hold. Will be a while… 😉
oh no! I’m about half way through, and didn’t know it would be a tissue book.
@Penny but really in a good way.
The storyteller by Jodi Picoult… I went threw a few tissues.
The Nightingale definitely
The true story of Hansel and Gretel is historical fiction set during WWII and is so good.
@Cynthia Our Book Club just read this one.?
@Lesley Awesome! I don’t hear about it nearly often enough.
Last thing I read in this genre was by Vicky Whedbee. Sarah’s Song.
Sarah’s Key
Orphan Train
sobbed myself to sleep!!!!!
@Zana Me too!!
@Peggy such a sad life. ?
@Zana omg for sure. I couldn’t imagine living in that way. I felt so bad for those kids 🙁
@Peggy, can not imagine. We’re really blessed to live in todays time!
The Nightingale
Memoirs of A Geisha
The Book Thief
Salt to the Sea
Other tearjerkers: From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon, So Much More by Kim Holden, Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, After I Do by Talor Jenkis Reid, Bright Side by Kim Holden, Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – most of those are historical fiction and some of them aren’t, but they all made me cry
Me Before You destroyed my soul
Never anyone but you it’s lovely ?
My book @Love is a tear jerker for sure!!!
Here’s the book trailer I released.
https://youtu.be/ouJKziqG_fU
Sarah’s Key
The Bronze Horseman
@Beth this had to come up- else I was going to add it! Love love love this book!
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I’ve just cried at Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy. Set in 1950’s Ireland.
Super book. Try The Glass Lake and Firely Summer too
I read them all when they were first published. Feeling very nostalgic now x
The Nightingale
Tuesday w/ Morrie
A Man Called Ove
@Sandy loved Ove
I cry so easily at movies and songs, but not books. I did tear up at the Five People you meet in Heaven though.
A thousand splendid suns.
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Have you read Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate?
That title sounds familiar, but it doesn’t sound I something I read. Was that one of the Amazon Prime free monthly books? I’m wondering if I have it.
I’m not sure. I read it and it made me tear up a few times and it is a Historical Fiction. Sounded like something you might be interested in.
I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!
It’s my next read on my kimdle
The Nightingale
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Geisha Girl
Not historical fiction, but a real tear jerker… Something Like Happy.
Heart’s Invisible Furies
Art of Racing in the Rain
Thousand Splendid Suns
Me Before You
Definitely agree with Art of Racing in the Rain!
Yes!! Dear Enzo!!
@Michelle Enzo! ?
Mischling by Affinity Konar
The light between oceans
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Christina Baker Kline – The Orphan Train
Sue Monk Kidd – The invention of Wings.
Book Thief
Ladies!! Amazingly, I just now got a call from my library letting my know my copy of The Nightingale is available. They must have gotten more copies because when I checked the other day, i was still a month or so out. I AM SO STOKED!!! Hahaha!!
Enjoy!!! It’s one of the best WWII books out there..
Good one!
Try Lilac Girls, as well. Oh and The Lost Wife. Both same genre as Nightingale and amazing reads!
@Kim ?
@Kim hope the library has a box of tissues for you to check out as well ? (best book I’ve read this year out of 51)
@Kim I loved this book, I read it twice already. My Bookclub all liked it.
From Sand and ash by Amy Harmon
Story Teller
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The nightingale! By Kristin Hannah!
The great alone
☝? This one
Before we were yours
Bridge of clay Markus Zusak I’m reading it now… not a book for public transport lol
A Long Walk to Water…extra bonus points-its based on a true story
Badenheim 1939. Or any holocaust story
CODE NAME VERITY
Million Dollar Baby
My Dog Skip
T is for Tree
Tattooist of Auschwitz, book thief and the girl in the letter x
Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy – saddest book I have ever read!
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah.
I’ve got that one on hold at the library. Hoping I get a chance to finish The Nightingale before it becomes available. I’m really looking forward to it. 😉
The Kitchen House
Read that one a few months ago. Loved it!
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Me before you.
The Nightingale or The Great Alone
Someone I used to know..