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What book do you all recommend for a good cry?

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Samantha

A little life.

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Betty

Sobbed my heart out

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MadhusriQuestion author

By Hanya Yanagihara?

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Margie

OMG. It was disturbing and heart wrenching

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Betty

yes

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Kimberly

YES, THIS BOOK! #allthetears

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Suzanne

The Notebook

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MadhusriQuestion author

I remember reading it as a teenager & sobbing inconsolably..

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Samantha

Me Before You!

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MadhusriQuestion author

Yaay.. I have the PDF.. ?

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Samantha

I hardly ever cry while reading, but this book had me sobbing. And the movie adaptation with Emilia Clarke is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!

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Nancy

The Fault in Our Stars

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MadhusriQuestion author

Read it, loved it & felt all seven stages of grief after finishing it..

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Juhii

Jonny angel by Danielle steel cried my heart out

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Bianca

Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mixtape

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MadhusriQuestion author

That’s an interesting title..

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Bianca

He’s a music journalist who writes for the Rolling Stone. This book is about his first marriage, where they married young and were so different and were so in love.

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Joan

Love that book.

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Amy

Time Travelers Wife or A Dog’s Purpose

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Amber

I second Me Before You!

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Robin

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Bonnie

The Bridges of Madison County

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Griselda

I saw the movie before reading the book and fell in love with the movie. I just couldn’t with the book. So my rule now is to read first then watch. ?

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Sally

More than cried; sobbed over Bridges (book and movie). ?

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Minda

I despised this book. Sorry.

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Karen

I felt the book was way better than the movie.

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Mehreen

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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MadhusriQuestion author

My all time favourite book..

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Leyla

@Madhusri Have you read Kite Runner ?

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MadhusriQuestion author

Yes.. I loved it too.

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Debasmita

@Madhusri I would suggest really happy books for you at this moment

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MadhusriQuestion author

I need to get this pent up sadness out of my system.

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Helen

The last days of Rabbit Hayes x but also second A Thousand Splendid Sun’s x

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Shanon

A Monster Calls

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Sarah

I was going to comment that! Heartbreaking. I cried so much. Sobbing and ugly crying. lol.

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Claire

The Nightingale…I cried like a baby.

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Crystal

Yep! Or her new one The Great Alone!

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Amy

The Time Traveler’s Wife

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Julez

The Book Thief or The Kite Runner.

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MadhusriQuestion author

Read both. Loved them…

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Griselda

Beyond Borders movie

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Crystal

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson- never cried so hard in my life ?

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Griselda

We were on the same thinking wave. Responded the same a few seconds after you?

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MadhusriQuestion author

OMG, I have the book stacked in my unread pile..

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Crystal

@Madhusri It is a good one! So different from most of Patterson’s. Another good one that he wrote is called the Jester

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MadhusriQuestion author

I will check it out too..

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Griselda

Susanne’s diary for Nicholas by james patterson.

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Crystal

Haha, I just wrote that! ❤️

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Sabrina

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton, I cry every time I read it.

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Beth

If you like romance, A Knight in shining armor. By Jude Devereaux.

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Lessy

As someone above suggested, The Book Thief and Kite Runner.

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry also messed me up ?

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Lori

The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley

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Louise

The Almond Tree by MIchelle Cohen Corasanti

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Kelly

Modoc. The world’s greatest elephant. Or Marley and Me.

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MadhusriQuestion author

I loved Marley and Me.

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Laura

The Light Between Oceans….

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Valeria

The fault in our stars by John Green ?

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Sylvia

dog books: a dog’s purpose, driving in the rain

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Sarah

Lily and the Octopus!

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Deandra

Ryan’s Bed by Tijan

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Macy

Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

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Chandima

The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

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Jean

Charlotte’s Web.

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Joanie

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonothan Safron Foer

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Yvette

The Light Between Oceans

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Fiona

I cried so hard at the end of that one!

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Yvette

@Fiona me too & I was at the drs office when I finished it. I was sobbing ?. I’m like this book is so sad!!?

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Beth

Me Before You. Saving Abby.

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Lacey

When Breath Becomes Air

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Laura

Hmmm, I had a hard time with this one

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Marykate

Dear John ?

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Hafsah

a monster calls by patrick ness

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Rhonda

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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Catherine

If you’re a dog lover – Lily and the Octopus

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Annie

Where the Red Fern Grows and Castle of Water.

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Autumn

Me Before You or All the Bright Places

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Chris

^^^ both!!

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Lona

Marley & Me

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April

“The Art of Racing in the Rain” … cried my eyes out on that one.

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Deborah

AND LADIES OF THE CLUB. Long but worth it.

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Kelly

The Fault in Our Stars. One of the few books I reread regularly and it gets me every time.

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Tina

Sarah’s Key

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Judith

Shelter Me. Several good cries.

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Randi

Me before you

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Kimberly

Me Before You

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Laura

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

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Kimberly

Room or Great Small Things – Jodi Picoult

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Julie

Angela’s Ashes

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Mary

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

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Claire

THE LITTLE PRINCE ?

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Tiffany

All the Bright Places

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Judith

Elizabeth Berg books

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Chris

so so so agree w/All the Bright Places. Been a year and I’m STILL not over that one

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Vicki

Marley and Me by John Grogan (puppy and dog stories always get me)

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Jonathan

When breath becomes air

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Anuradha

I second that.

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Jonathan

Insomniac City – Bill Hayes

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Jan

The Book Thief

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Mary

One True Thing by Anna Quinlan

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Matt

SHE’S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb or THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN Gareth Stein

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Danielle

Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison

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Karen

The book thief

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Carolyn

Second

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Kori

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Emily

“And Every Morning the Walk Home Gets Longer and Longer.”

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Savannah

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS…A Little Life…A Dogs Purpose series

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Amya

Rage of Angels. Fuck that book.

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Chris

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (unexpected but sobbed)
The Nightingale
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
All the Bright Places

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Rachel

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I bawled like a baby!

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Kimberly

“Here If You Need Me” by Kate Braestrup

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Jen

The Great Alone

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Becky

A thousand boy kisses

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Carla

The Book Thief by: Markus Zusak

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Beth

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.

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Vicki

Yes! Finished it two weeks ago, so bittersweet! Highly recommended ( I’m tearing up thinking about the ending).

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MadhusriQuestion author

I remember howling & crying so much at the end that my mom came in to make sure if I am okay.

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Jennifer

The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George.

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Monica

The Velveteen Rabbit gets me every time.

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Rebecca

Love Story. Quick read, funny and heart-wrenching.

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Pamela

Leaving Time

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Sarah

Flowers for Algernon and The Book Thief will turn the sprinklers on fo sho

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Jan

The Nightingale

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Julia

Patrick Ness The Monster Comes. Frédéric Backman’s My Grandmother Asks Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. The latter will make you laugh too.

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Stacy

I think it’s A Monster Calls? But I agree, I think I openly wept on that one. ?

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Marla

The Book Thief!

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Krista

Me Before You

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Annie

Marley and Me

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Kara

Me Before You

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Whit

A Dog’s Purpose

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Jasmine

and the mountains echoed

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Brenda

The Dog Stars.

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Jill

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Charon

She’s come undone

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Dorothy

Marley and Me.

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Philip

Les Misérables. I cried for the last 150 pages.

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Karen

I sobbed like a baby at the end of Julia Child’s book ‘My Life in France,’ because she had such a gorgeous life.

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Miriam

When Bread becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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Teresa

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin. Great book.

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Michele

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Amanda

Bridge to Terabithia

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Trupti

Oh my God.. I cried my eyes out while reading this.. ??

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Monica

the fault in our stars – Had to read it in one afternoon and needed a box of tissues.

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Crystal

the butterfly house by marcia preston trust me its amazing

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Denise

The Kite Runner! ☺️

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Amanda

And The Art of Racing in the Rain! I cried so much I threw my neck out!

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Catherine

Fault in Our Stars

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Catherine
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Tony

I definitely cried lol

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Molly

When breathe becomes air

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Laura

monster calls

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Jenna

When breath becomes air, for nonfiction. For fiction, Wonder.

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Emery

I second When breath becomes air.

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Stacy

Feel like The History of Love by Nicole Krauss broke my heart.

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Clarice

A Little Life

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Robin

bluets

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Farheen

All the bright places by Jennifer niven

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Cassandra

A Child Called “It”

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Rania

And the Mountains Echoed

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Mariwitch

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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Diane

The Notebook

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Carole

“Bridge to Terabithia” It’s written for younger readers, but is so wonderful it should be read by everyone!

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Karen

OMG, I barely survived the movie, I cried so hard. The book would strike me dead!

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Jen

Me before you by JoJo Moyes or Taking Chances by Molly McAdams

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Phyllis

“Old Yeller” Fred Gipson

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Laura

The Island of the World by Michael O’Brien.

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Lucinda

“Flowers for Algernon”

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Carol

OMG Yes!

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Jessica

The Book Thief!!!!

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Amya

I need to read that one

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Janice

Bright Side by Kim Holden

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Carol

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.

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Linda

The Host by Stephanie Meyer (a really good book)

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Tom

It’s an old one, but I cried the most when I read The Doll Maker.

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Lynne

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4325

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Mindy

The Art of Racing in the Rain

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Cheryl

We Were Liars by e. lockhart

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Jennifer

Where the Redfern Grows

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Kimberly

Omg, one of my favorite books of all time…

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Jennifer

Made me cry so bad I would never read it again. My cousin read it over and over. A friend when talking about Marley and Me, told me not to see the movie it was like going to a funeral.

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Lynda

Red Dog

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Anne

Patrick Ness -A monster calls

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Katerina

When Breath Becomes Air.

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Mikosinska

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

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Himadri

The fault in our stars by John Green

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Jill

A Dog’s Purpose.

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Waimirirangi

The boy in the striped pyjamas

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Mehreen

I just finished reading Our Song by Dani Atkins. Cried for two straight hours.

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