What book do you all recommend for a good cry?
What book do you all recommend for a good cry?
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A little life.
Sobbed my heart out
By Hanya Yanagihara?
OMG. It was disturbing and heart wrenching
yes
YES, THIS BOOK! #allthetears
The Notebook
I remember reading it as a teenager & sobbing inconsolably..
Me Before You!
Yaay.. I have the PDF.. ?
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!
The Fault in Our Stars
Read it, loved it & felt all seven stages of grief after finishing it..
Jonny angel by Danielle steel cried my heart out
Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mixtape
That’s an interesting title..
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.
Love that book.
Time Travelers Wife or A Dog’s Purpose
I second Me Before You!
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Bridges of Madison County
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. ?
More than cried; sobbed over Bridges (book and movie). ?
I despised this book. Sorry.
I felt the book was way better than the movie.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
My all time favourite book..
@Madhusri Have you read Kite Runner ?
Yes.. I loved it too.
@Madhusri I would suggest really happy books for you at this moment
I need to get this pent up sadness out of my system.
The last days of Rabbit Hayes x but also second A Thousand Splendid Sun’s x
A Monster Calls
I was going to comment that! Heartbreaking. I cried so much. Sobbing and ugly crying. lol.
The Nightingale…I cried like a baby.
Yep! Or her new one The Great Alone!
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Book Thief or The Kite Runner.
Read both. Loved them…
Beyond Borders movie
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson- never cried so hard in my life ?
We were on the same thinking wave. Responded the same a few seconds after you?
OMG, I have the book stacked in my unread pile..
@Madhusri It is a good one! So different from most of Patterson’s. Another good one that he wrote is called the Jester
I will check it out too..
Susanne’s diary for Nicholas by james patterson.
Haha, I just wrote that! ❤️
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton, I cry every time I read it.
If you like romance, A Knight in shining armor. By Jude Devereaux.
As someone above suggested, The Book Thief and Kite Runner.
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry also messed me up ?
The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley
The Almond Tree by MIchelle Cohen Corasanti
Modoc. The world’s greatest elephant. Or Marley and Me.
I loved Marley and Me.
The Light Between Oceans….
The fault in our stars by John Green ?
dog books: a dog’s purpose, driving in the rain
Lily and the Octopus!
Ryan’s Bed by Tijan
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
Charlotte’s Web.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonothan Safron Foer
The Light Between Oceans
I cried so hard at the end of that one!
@Fiona me too & I was at the drs office when I finished it. I was sobbing ?. I’m like this book is so sad!!?
Me Before You. Saving Abby.
When Breath Becomes Air
Hmmm, I had a hard time with this one
Dear John ?
a monster calls by patrick ness
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
If you’re a dog lover – Lily and the Octopus
Where the Red Fern Grows and Castle of Water.
Me Before You or All the Bright Places
^^^ both!!
Marley & Me
“The Art of Racing in the Rain” … cried my eyes out on that one.
AND LADIES OF THE CLUB. Long but worth it.
The Fault in Our Stars. One of the few books I reread regularly and it gets me every time.
Sarah’s Key
Shelter Me. Several good cries.
Me before you
Me Before You
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Room or Great Small Things – Jodi Picoult
Angela’s Ashes
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
THE LITTLE PRINCE ?
All the Bright Places
Elizabeth Berg books
so so so agree w/All the Bright Places. Been a year and I’m STILL not over that one
Marley and Me by John Grogan (puppy and dog stories always get me)
When breath becomes air
I second that.
Insomniac City – Bill Hayes
The Book Thief
One True Thing by Anna Quinlan
SHE’S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb or THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN Gareth Stein
Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison
The book thief
Second
A Thousand Splendid Suns
“And Every Morning the Walk Home Gets Longer and Longer.”
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS…A Little Life…A Dogs Purpose series
Rage of Angels. Fuck that book.
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
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I bawled like a baby!
“Here If You Need Me” by Kate Braestrup
The Great Alone
A thousand boy kisses
The Book Thief by: Markus Zusak
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
Yes! Finished it two weeks ago, so bittersweet! Highly recommended ( I’m tearing up thinking about the ending).
I remember howling & crying so much at the end that my mom came in to make sure if I am okay.
The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George.
The Velveteen Rabbit gets me every time.
Love Story. Quick read, funny and heart-wrenching.
Leaving Time
Flowers for Algernon and The Book Thief will turn the sprinklers on fo sho
The Nightingale
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.
I think it’s A Monster Calls? But I agree, I think I openly wept on that one. ?
The Book Thief!
Me Before You
Marley and Me
Me Before You
A Dog’s Purpose
and the mountains echoed
The Dog Stars.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
She’s come undone
Marley and Me.
Les Misérables. I cried for the last 150 pages.
I sobbed like a baby at the end of Julia Child’s book ‘My Life in France,’ because she had such a gorgeous life.
When Bread becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin. Great book.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Bridge to Terabithia
Oh my God.. I cried my eyes out while reading this.. ??
the fault in our stars – Had to read it in one afternoon and needed a box of tissues.
the butterfly house by marcia preston trust me its amazing
The Kite Runner! ☺️
And The Art of Racing in the Rain! I cried so much I threw my neck out!
Fault in Our Stars
I definitely cried lol
When breathe becomes air
monster calls
When breath becomes air, for nonfiction. For fiction, Wonder.
I second When breath becomes air.
Feel like The History of Love by Nicole Krauss broke my heart.
A Little Life
bluets
All the bright places by Jennifer niven
A Child Called “It”
And the Mountains Echoed
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Notebook
“Bridge to Terabithia” It’s written for younger readers, but is so wonderful it should be read by everyone!
OMG, I barely survived the movie, I cried so hard. The book would strike me dead!
Me before you by JoJo Moyes or Taking Chances by Molly McAdams
“Old Yeller” Fred Gipson
The Island of the World by Michael O’Brien.
“Flowers for Algernon”
OMG Yes!
The Book Thief!!!!
I need to read that one
Bright Side by Kim Holden
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
The Host by Stephanie Meyer (a really good book)
It’s an old one, but I cried the most when I read The Doll Maker.
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4325
The Art of Racing in the Rain
We Were Liars by e. lockhart
Where the Redfern Grows
Omg, one of my favorite books of all time…
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.
Red Dog
Patrick Ness -A monster calls
When Breath Becomes Air.
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
The fault in our stars by John Green
A Dog’s Purpose.
The boy in the striped pyjamas
I just finished reading Our Song by Dani Atkins. Cried for two straight hours.