This might be strange, but I really need a good cry. Favorite book that always makes you cry?
This might be strange, but I really need a good cry. Favorite book that always makes you cry?
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Me Before You!!
Suzanne’s Diary to Nicholas – James Patterson
Firefly Lane – Kristin Hannah = ugly cry for me
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Almost anything by Jodi Picoult (two favorites are The Storyteller and Handle With Care)
From Sand and Ash – Amy Harmon
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Handle With Care was my first Jodi Picoult read. I waited over a year to try anything else by her because it really got to me.
Yeah, they can be really intense, but they’re so well done.
When Breath Becomes Air. The End of Your Life Book Club.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
And HP and the Half-Blood Prince! And HP and the Order of the Phoenix…why, JKR, Why?!?!? Still some of my favorite books of all time but I seriously had to walk away from those 3 for a few days before I could continue.
Luckily I was reading those all the night they came out, so I had a year or so between them to recover.
The Art of Racing in the Rain — at least if you’re a dog person.
Marley
Bright Side by Kim Holden! I sobbed for almost half the book. So so good!
That book gutted me. So good.
My Sister’s Keeper, Marley and Me
I pull out some Lurlene McDaniel from my teenage years. Don’t Die, My Love usually does it for me.
The Fault in Our Stars.
I didn’t read the book but watched the movie… on an airplane. The flight attendant asked me if I was ok!
@Rachel I was reading on a night my dad was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery. My son came into my room and was unable to stop the uncontrolable sobbing!
A Dog’s Purpose. Every…damn…time!
yes!!!!
I haven’t read it, but my friend said Winter Garden is a cry book.
Big time!
A Big Little Life:A Memoir if a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz. It’s about his beloved golden retriever.
Omg- Yes!!! ???
@Chris this one started my huge love of all the dog books…a Dog’s Purpose series…The Art of Racing in the Rain…Roam…Walking in Circles Before Lying Down…then I went to the memoirs A Friend Like Henry and Cowboy and Wills. Both of these are memoirs written by mothers of children with Autism who end of getting dogs that unexpectedly acted as therapy dogs. Those 2 are hard to find but they are so good!
Where the Red Fern Grows. Old Yeller.
She said cry, not sob so hard you can’t breathe! (Where the Red Fern Grows- my mother thought someone was attacking me because I was crying so loudly)
@Katherine yeah it’s the one book I love but can’t reread
Completely gut wrenching, first time I ever remember sobbing uncontrollably. Had a kid home with strep and she had to finish it, I told her”no” because she was so sick. She read it anyway and cried her throat raw! Amazing how that book brings back such strong memories! ?
Walk two moons
Bright Side – Kim Holden
When Breath Becomes Air ( the epilogue especially)
P.S. I Love You
@Lyndsay – When Breath Becomes Air for sure. It’s also so beautifully written, truly one of my favorite books ever. Side bonus- no dead dogs!
The Outsiders. Stay gold, Johnny.
Too soon! ?
The Notebook, gets me every time.
The Man Called Ove!
If you love dogs and good writing, “Let’s take the long way home,” a memoir by Gail Caldwell. And my favorite book of all time, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”
Art of Racing in the Rain
Prince of Tides
Me Before You
Marley and Me
Sophie’s Choice.
Suzanne’s Diary to Nicholas. Me Before You.
Let’s Take the Long Wa Home was beautiful &thought provoking,,if as Mar Bahr said, u love dogs and good writing.
Marley & Me. Hits me hard every time.
Little Women
Me too!
The notebook
Marley and Me
The Last Lecture…gets me every damn time
A Man Called Ove made me bawl my eyes out. In the nail salon. I also agree with A Big Little Life…I loved that book!
The Nightingale ugly cried a few times!
Firefly Lane!
This. 100%.
Yep…ugly cry for sure!
The End of the World Running Club. Little Fires Everywhere. When Breath Becomes Air. I need a warning system on books if I’m going to sob in public ?
I want a tissues rating system! I hate it when I end up ugly crying on a plane.
The Heart’s Invisible Furies was the last one that made me cry. I love books that make me feel that much!
Skipping a Beat by Sarah Pekkanen
A marriage in dog years
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
The seven husbands of Evelyn hugo! Along with when breath becomes air
Sarah’s Key. I sob like a baby all the way through.
Firefly lane
The Art of Racing In The Rain
Friday night knitting club
I started reading it but I just couldn’t get into it. Does it pick up?
@Krystan I read it years ago. It was the first book that made me cry. Stick with it.
The Light Between Oceans!
hysterical crying!
Me Before You, The Thornbirds, anything Kristen Hannah has written
Just finished the Art if Racing in the Rain which was wonderful! Told from the perspective of a dog ?
This…? But if you are wanting fiction, go with When The Phone Rang by Harry Mazer, it’s an old one and it may be in the YA category, but it will give you all the tears!
My library does not have this but I found it on a website and ordered it. Thanks for the post
Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Yes! Love that book( and movie)
Rush home road
Fall on you knees
Stepmom…the book the Julia Roberts movie is based on. I bawl.
Summer Sisters
Anything by Frederik Bachman!
The Book Thief made me bawl!
Atonement
Two Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner a
The Art of Racing in the Rain…or really any book that involves a dog.
I second this one. Such a great book!
It’s an ugly cry kind of book!
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
The nightingale. In my Top 5 books ever. Just thinking about it makes me weepy.
I second The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah. It’s the only book of hers that I have read, and it was very good!
Love Story
Diary of Anne Frank.
Morning Glory.
Nicholas Sparks…anything
Calling Me home or Everything I Never Told You.
Dancing on broken glass
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.
art of racing in the rain. anything with a dog….
I was sobbing during my pedicure when I finished.
Was going to suggest that
Marley and Me. ❤️
Was going to recommend this one…I was bawling at the pool after I finished it. ?
Beauty in the Broken Places – true story but it does have a happy ending
My Sisters Keeper
Me Before You
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier
My sisters keeper. Be prepared to bawl by the end.
Me Before You, Notebook
‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ by Kate DiCamillo. It’s a children’s chapter book, and completely fantastic. You’ll get to your cry sooner than with a longer book. ??
Anything by Nicholas Sparks
The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans
If you’re a dog lover, read A Dog’s Purpose. It is incredibly beautiful, so much better than the movie. I read it on a plane and had to keep apologizing for crying so hard.
The Nightingale or The Great Alone
Forever is the Worst Long Time. Sobbing and no running ensued.
The Nightingale, and Me Before You
To Kill A Mockingbird & I cry when I teach it.
Until Tuesday and After Tuesday- I’m a bookseller and a customer told me that the gent who was Tuesday’s person lost his battle with PTSD and I cried in the store while at work. The power of therapy dogs for soldiers is incredible
PS I love you. Every time the book and movie makes me ball and I’m not a cryer!
Oh the travel agent scene!!
Lily and the Octopus. Bawled like a baby. It’s also a pretty quick read.
Ps. I love you…. The Notebook!!!