Spin Off - What Books Have Made You Cry

[PixieDustandEeyore]

I cried while reading Harry Potter 5 6 and 7 but especially 7.
Little Women
and I always bawl during A Walk to Remember..gawd thats a hard one I cry during the movie infact my fiance fiance cried during the movie it was sad.
I also cry during Ann Frank's Diary as I know the ending

 

[Tink888]

Just about every book mentioned- I am a big crier. Also:

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Night by Elie Weisel
The Little Princess
Bless The Beasts and the Children
Joy Luck Club
The Lovely Bones
Lord of the Flies
The Grapes of Wrath
Charlotte's Web

**Adding a few kids books-
The Giving Tree
The Velveteen Rabbit
Love You Forever

I tried to read Velveteen Rabbit to DD when she was little- I coud not get through it without crying so hard, my head hurt. Same with The Giving Tree. DD wanted to hear Love You Forever every night when she was little- I got so I could get through almost the whole book before breaking into tears. The man singing to his mother when she was too old and tired to sing to him anymore got me every time!

I hadn't even thought about childrens books. Used to read Love You Forever to my sons all the time. I choked up a little just reading your post!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Harry Potter 5, 6, and especially 7.
The Shack.

 

[MELSMICE]

I've gotten teary & cried while reading many books, but these ones really got to me:

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

 

[nicolita3]

The Green Mile the end is just so sad more sad than the movie in my opinion just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes

 

[gillep]

I am totally NOT prone to tears at all and I have read most of the books listed and the only two that have made me cry were

Dragonfly in Amber - I was so pulled into this series that everything just seemed so real to me and some of the scenes in this one were hard to get through

The Time Traveler's Wife

additionally
Every Last One- this one had me BAWLING it was just very powerful the way it was written

 

[OceanAnnie]

Firefly Lane
Winter Garden
Dear John
The Deep End of the Ocean
The House of Sand and Fog

I was a mess with those books.

 

[pilesoflaundry]

So many. Too many to list. I cry over almost anything.

Me too. I'm just as bad with movies.

The one that probably got to me the most and even the mention of it still gets me teary is A Walk To Remember. Anything Sparks gets to me but that one will always make me cry and cry.

 

[superme80]

I don't usually cry in books, but Where the Red Fern Grows got me in 6th grade.
My mom bought DS the Velveteen Rabbit for Easter last year and I refuse to read it to him. I skimmed it and started choking up. I told her she could read it to him.
Oh I Love You Forever. I read it in a bookstore and started crying. I will never own that book. My mom just skimmed it at Target a few weeks ago. She was laughing over it and then got to the end. I tried to warn her but of course she didn't listen.
There was this book I read to my son, but I can't remember the name. It was about a little girl and her dad has been in tour for the Navy. I thought it would be a good idea since my dad was in the navy. Oh my gosh I was trying to suppress my tears at the end. It is a good ending, but yeah....makes you cry.

 

[KimR]

For awhile I though there was something wrong with me since I never cry at the books that most people do. Nicholas Sparks does nothing for me in the tears department, in fact Dear John actually pissed me off instead of making me sad.

Then my aunt gave me Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson.

She warned me that it would lead to tears but I didn't believe her; if an author like Nicholas Sparks can't get me to cry how would a mystery writer get me to? The next thing I know I'm bawling my eyes out at the end of the book.

Same thing happened with his book Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Suzanne's diary for Nicholas got me, too. I normally don't read sad books, especially with that particular theme, but my Mother gave it to me to read so I figured it was safe. I have no idea what she was thinking because she knows my rule....no books where 'that' happens (don't want to post spoilers).

 

[KellyWasHere]

I tear up at a lot of books (just finished HP 6 and got teary at Dumbledore's death), but rarely outright cry. The 2 I can think of that got to me were:

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
and
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

I think I cried at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, too.

 

[ChiCat]

Ditto the Time Traveler's Wife. Also:

The Glass Castle
The Los Angelos Diaries
Lonesome Dove
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

I'm sure there are more but those are the first that came to my mind when I thought about real tear jerkers.