A prayer for owen meany. More recent is I Love you Forever and The Nightingale. Can I add a movie. I saw A Monster Calls this weekend and cried some ugly tears. Beautiful movie
Harry Potter When sirius died. I still remember hiding under my sheet and crying my eyes out, trying to not wake mom up (she was sleeping next to me). Must be 7-8th grade lol
The Neverending Story. I was 13 I think. When Bastian was bullied and hid away and when Arteyu was trying to get Ajax out the swamp, I cried like a baby.
First one I remember making me cry was “Black Beauty”…I am still traumatized. First movie I cried at was Bambi where apparently I had to be removed right after Bambi’s mother died. Still have never seen it. While I enjoy reading murder mysteries I am still overly sensitive to anything where an animal is cruelly treated or dies.
Can’t remember, but going back through picture books I read as a kid made me realized just how depressing most of them are. The Giving Tree, Love You Forever, etc
I read animal stories when I was a kid…they alllll made me cry. I think Old Yeller may have been the first. Now I avoid animal stories. And try to avoid sad ones in general.
It was either David Copperfield (a shorter version) or a story about three ships; I don’t remember the title, but it had a very happy ending and I got emotional. I was about 10 at the time, I think. (by the way: it’s still july 7th here ?)
One of Greene’s most popular books, Beat the Turtle Drum (Viking 1976), came from personal experience. At the age of eleven, Greene’s sister died. The story relates how a young girl learns to cope with the accidental death of her sister.
A bit more recently or adult years I cried in public/ on a NYC subway to : Gods Bits of Wood In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, Ousmane Sembène envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.
I don’t remember the name of the book but it was about a woman who was in love with a man who contracted HIV as he worked in a hospital and something went wrong.. I read it in one sitting and balled my eyes out ?
I love her books. My favorite was Misty of Chincoteague. I even eventually went to a pony penning and bought a foal at the auction. That was a life-long dream come true!
The yearling is packed with the culture of that time and area that were so vivid. Yes I knew the plot during my first read, and I think I’m going to need to read it again at age 55. Sometimes we need to cry.
Marrying Malcom Murgatroyd by Mame Farrell.
The first book??? Geez… I cry at everything!! The last book I know!
Maybe Watership Down? Year 7 and we watched the film… I sobbed
Charlotte’s Web
This was the first that made me cry as well. Also happens to be one of my favourite reads!
The Outsiders. Stay gold, Ponyboy! ?
Best book I read as a kid. Still makes me cry when I read it now
Where the Red Fern Grows
I don’t think I ever cried until I read The Nightingale. Sobbed many times and was deeply saddened, but that book made me stop and cry.
Old Yeller. Ugly cry!
Bambi. Of course.
Up the Road Slowly
The Yearling
I don’t remember the book title. It was Lurlene McDaniel book. She really writes really sad books
Yes! Teenagers always dying of cancer.. terrible.
Oh yeah! I remember reading A Summer to Die by her as a kid. So sad!
I don’t remember, but I’m pretty sure it involved an animal.
The Amber Spyglass
Black Beauty!!
Mrs. Mike
Firefly Lane, Kristen Hannah
I can’t remember which one I read first either Old Yeller or Where the Red Fern Grows.
Little Women
Well, I’m an old lady, so maybe Charlotte’s Web?
That was my first, too…and I’m not that old so, I’m sure you’re not either! ?
@Leighan 73 yesterday. ?
@Linda it’s just a number! I’ll be 49 on the 26th. Yesterday I met a lady who is 102…she was getting a manicure ?
@Linda we share a birthday! I turned 69.
The Bridge to Terabithia
Yup. This one broke my heart.
Old yeller
Anne of Green Gables.
Tree Girl
Flowers in the attic
A thousand splendid suns !!
Where the red fern grows, I think.
The Christmas Shoes ??
Probably Bambi
Charlotte’s Web
Dewey The Library Cat ?
little house on the prairie ….
A prayer for owen meany. More recent is I Love you Forever and The Nightingale. Can I add a movie. I saw A Monster Calls this weekend and cried some ugly tears. Beautiful movie
Night by Elie Wiesel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Velveteen Rabbit— what…I was a sensitive child?
PS I Love You
A really sweet book I barely remember called ‘Incident at Hawk’s Hill’.
Night by Elie Wiesel
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Bridge to Terabithia
Little Women. I still have my first copy from 4th grade that I highlighted the parts that stood out to me.
Where the red fern grows
Where the Red Fern Grows
Love Story
I’m thinking this might have been me too!
Wonder
We were liars by E.Lockheart
Lately wonder
Boxcar Children
A fault in our stars
Oliver Twist
The Nightengale
Old Yeller … I still get sad just thinking about it
My Sisters Keeper
Roots by Alex Haley. Read it when I was 14. I cannot forget it. So much sadness but such a brilliant piece of writing.
suzanne’s diary for nicholas by James Patterson.
Where the Red Fern Grows
The first one I can remember was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
I can’t remember if I cried – i can’t remember the first book for that as there have been many – but the first book that moved me was Jane Eyre.
Recently, Firefly Lane
Where the red fern grows
Allegiant
Watership Down
Black Beauty
Where the red fern grows
Harry Potter
When sirius died. I still remember hiding under my sheet and crying my eyes out, trying to not wake mom up (she was sleeping next to me). Must be 7-8th grade lol
I’ve never cried reading a book, but I’ve come close with Me Before You and The Fault in Our Stars
Me Before You made me do that ugly cry where you can clearly see one is crying but no sounds come out lol
Where The Red Fern Grows
Right? Saddest book ever!!
Where the Red Fern Grows! ??
Little Women
Old Yeller.
The Yearling
But Where the Red Fern Grows was my second book!
I remember sobbing while reading The Sand Pebbles.
I’m guessing it was A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. But I’m old. It was a long time ago.
That’s kinda how I felt!
The notebook
The fault in our stars
fault in our stars
A woman wronged
The Ugly Duckling
The Outsiders
The Giving Tree
The Velveteen Rabbit, 2nd grade, when teacher read it to us one rainy indoor recess day.
I tried to read Velveteen Rabbit to my children when they were little, but could never get through it without dissolving into a puddle of tears.
@Mary It’s one of those books I love so much, I hoard copies of it. And every kid I’ve ever given gifts to has received a copy.
I don’t remember. But my 8 year old just experienced this for her first time with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
My sister’s keeper and p.s I love you.
Love Story, way back in the day.
Don’t Hurt Laurie. I was in 5th grade. It is about a little girl that was abused.
The boy in the striped pajamas
The Neverending Story. I was 13 I think. When Bastian was bullied and hid away and when Arteyu was trying to get Ajax out the swamp, I cried like a baby.
Where the Red Ferns Grow
A Little Princess… I think. I also read and cried over Black Beauty and Bridge to Terabithia around the same age
First one I remember making me cry was “Black Beauty”…I am still traumatized. First movie I cried at was Bambi where apparently I had to be removed right after Bambi’s mother died. Still have never seen it. While I enjoy reading murder mysteries I am still overly sensitive to anything where an animal is cruelly treated or dies.
Harry potter
Where the Red Fern Grows
I don’t remember the first but I remember the ‘most’ – Me Before You. Buckets of tears.
I don’t remember the “first”, but the first I DO remember is Beach Music by Pat Conroy
The outsiders
I was very young ?♀️ but it is still one of my favorites
Amazing book
For one more day ?
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Not sure, but it must have been Black Beauty , Charlotte’s Web, or Rabbit Hill.
Bridge to Tarabithia
I cannot be certain, but possibly Charlotte’s Web. Or maybe Where the Red Fern Grows
Bambi, Felix Salton. When I was a kid.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Same
Kitchen House
Love Story by Erich Segal
Clockwork princess
My sister’s keeper
Firefly lane
My Sister’s Keeper
Lord of the Flies, William Golding, I was in 8th grade
Probably Little Women
Can’t remember, but going back through picture books I read as a kid made me realized just how depressing most of them are. The Giving Tree, Love You Forever, etc
“Wish” by Mathew Cordell. I read it to my little one and cried because my boy is my wish
The very first? Misty of Chincoteaque.
Oh my goodness. I remmember this series. I wander if kids still read it.
Gone With the Wind
Still Harry Potter! Book 5-7!
Me too.
Harry Potter will always be my first love! ❤️
Kaleidoscope – Danielle Steele
Sounder
The Notebook by Nicolas sparks
Marley and Me
Goodnight Mister Tom
Probably “The Last Days of Summer.” A HILLARIOUS book but with a tearful moment or two. Read it!
0ld Yeller..
Little Women
I can’t think of one. I tend to avoid sad books on the whole, my preference is for laughter rather than tears.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
charlotte’s web ???
Of Mice and Men. I just could. not. believe that ending.
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Suplendid Suns
Born Free by Joyce Adamson. ?
Little Women.
Bridge to Terabithia
Of Mice and Men
Marley and Me.
A Time for Tenderness by Betty Cavanna. Sixth grade. All the girls took turns reading this new book in our library and crying together ?
Black Beauty
I read animal stories when I was a kid…they alllll made me cry. I think Old Yeller may have been the first. Now I avoid animal stories. And try to avoid sad ones in general.
Little Women
The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley
The Green Mile. Made me ugly cry. ?
Sad dog stories when I was a kid. Some, like Sounder and Old Yeller, I was never able to read. Too sad.
It was either David Copperfield (a shorter version) or a story about three ships; I don’t remember the title, but it had a very happy ending and I got emotional. I was about 10 at the time, I think. (by the way: it’s still july 7th here ?)
Jacob Have I Loved
I am a retired teacher. I had it in my classroom library. I loved the book and recommended to many of my students.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Black Beauty
Mummy Knew
The promise
Charlottes Web
Where the Red Ferns Grow.
BTW…I love these questions. I look forward to them every day.
Didn’t read book but it’s my grand daughter and I favorite movie. Cry every time we see.
Old Yeller. Sniff. Starts with the death of the dog, then the backstory. I was shocked and grabbed by the first pages.
Where the Red Fern Grows. Still get teary-eyed thinking about it.
I’m not sure of the first one but the first that I can remember is Flowers for Algernon
Oh, my. I forgot about that one!! Tears for sure!
@Cori I was surprised no one had mentioned it!
@Kat yes! After I read your post I was too!
Lassie. Any book where an animal was injured!!!
Probably The Yearling
World According to Garp
The Yearling
The gift by Cecilia ahern
Where the Red Fern Grows. I still think about Old Dan & Lil Ann and to this day really don’t read a book with animal deaths if I can avoid it.
I remember SOBBING after reading that book! It was many years ago, but I still remember my reaction.
Flicka
Bridge to Terebithia ugly cried and the first time i was furious with an author.
Little Women
In adult books: Katherine by Anya Seton
Cry with laughter ( I was on a plane) Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging – a silly holiday read …. I also burst out loud into laughter
Black Beauty and Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows (and also when I reread it)
Jonathan Livingston seagull
Charlotte’s Web
Bridge to Terebithia
A Dog of Flanders. I’m kind of weepy just thinking about it.
Of Mice and Men
Easy lenny 🙁
Death be not proud by John gunther
Nicholas Sparks the Notebook
The last chapter to clan of the cave bear… The first in the earths children series ^_^
The Green Mile
Love Story
Agree
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Probably Old Yeller
Charlotte’s Web.
One of Greene’s most popular books, Beat the Turtle Drum (Viking 1976), came from personal experience. At the age of eleven, Greene’s sister died. The story relates how a young girl learns to cope with the accidental death of her sister.
A bit more recently or adult years I cried in public/ on a NYC subway to : Gods Bits of Wood In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, Ousmane Sembène envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.
Nightingale
Bridges of Madison County. Crying on the bus…
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes. It is amazing and everyone should read it.
Bury my heart at wound knee
It wasn’t the first that made me cry, but it s the book that made me cry the hardest.
While reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis to my 4th graders. We were all crying at one certain part…
Seven Little Australians ??
Love story
Art of Racing in the Rain
I started it, it was recommended by a friend….but…I chickened out. I still have the book, but….
Bridge to Terabithia or Where the Red Fern Grows. I don’t remember which one I read first as a kid.
Where the Red Fern Grows.
The Yearling.
Black Beauty
Probably Black Beauty.
Old Yeller.
Old Joe
Flowers in the attic
Where the Red Fern Grows
Charlotte’s Web
Old Yeller
I was a freshman in high school. i totally forgot the name of the book
Marjorie Morningstar
Love Herman Wouk!
i cant remember what the first was, it’s years ago when i was child. but i remember the last, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Where the Red Fern Grows
Little Women.
Harry Potter when Sirius dies. I seriously re-read the chapter like 5 times to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating and bawled for at least an hour lol
Charlottes Web
Little Women. Why did I get to Meg dying while on the school bus to school? Why? sniff
Beth
@Gwendolyn right. Oops! See, I was so traumatized I couldn’t remember. ?
I’ve read it many, many times and I cry every time.
Jacob Have I Loved
That was such a good book! I pulled it off of my mom’s bookshelf when I was a teen – she didn’t even remember that she had it!
@Andi I still have my copy from back in the day. Such a good story.
I haven’t talked to many people who even know of this book. An underrated book from a great author.
Who is the author?
@Amy Katherine Paterson.
Little Women
Where the Red Fern Grows.
Charlotte’s Web
To Kill A Mockingbird
Where the red fern grows
Old Yeller
I don’t remember the name of the book but it was about a woman who was in love with a man who contracted HIV as he worked in a hospital and something went wrong.. I read it in one sitting and balled my eyes out ?
A Child Called It.
five people you meet in heaven
Me too.
Charlotte’s Web
Where the Red Fern Grows
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
A thousand splendid suns and me before you
Where The Red Fern Grows
Me, too!
I was crying in the first chapter as the dog leaves after being helped by Billy.
Too many to count. I’m a waterpot.
Black Beauty.
Me too!
Oh gosh, of course Black Beauty!
Tiger Eyes
Wintersong
The Giving Tree
Me too!
It still makes me cry every time I read it
I still get a little teary when I think of it. I’ve always felt sorry for the tree.
Bridge to Terabithia. I read it in Sixth grade and I was wrecked!
Old Yeller
Charlotte’s Web
Little Women
Probably The Color Purple. Although Chicken Little gave me serious anxiety but I still let my grandma read it to me over and over 🙂
Oh the scene when the sisters meet again!!!!
The Yearling
Always the Thorn Birds, this time was no different
Wuthering heights
Mustang, Spirit of the West, Marguerite Henry. I was about 8 years old.
Lived the book Mustang. I think I was about same age.
OMG! I’d forgotten about Henry’s books. My fave was Black Gold.
I love her books. My favorite was Misty of Chincoteague. I even eventually went to a pony penning and bought a foal at the auction. That was a life-long dream come true!
My favorite was King of the Wind. I loved those books.
@Amy I’m so jealous! I would’ve loved to do that!
Our Town.
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Buckets. I cried absolute buckets.
Oh me too.
The yearling is packed with the culture of that time and area that were so vivid. Yes I knew the plot during my first read, and I think I’m going to need to read it again at age 55. Sometimes we need to cry.
Exodus by Leon Uris
Where the Red Fern Grows
Yes that will always be a sad tale.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Little Women
The Hidden Years by John Oxenham
It made me cry. Bridges made me cry.
The Yearling
Johnny Tremain made me tear up
Mockingjay destroyed me
Brighty of the Grand Canyon. I still have the book
OMG, I loved this book but forgot all about it!
The Colour Purple. (With the American spelling).
Forever….cried and cried:(
Sing Down The Moon
Lassie Come Home
Watership Down
Hello, High school friend!
Hi Barb! This is a great group…fun to run into you!
Palomino D steele
One of my very favorite books.
Count the Stars
Lad, a
Dog…..