Spin Off - What Books Have Made You Cry

[Tink888]

Inspired by the What Movies Made You Bawl Your Eye Out thread, has there ever been a book that made you cry?

The first for me was Where the Red Fern Grows. I was in 8th grade and a total mess by the end of that book.

The most recent was Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. Sad, sad book.

 

[Amy]

Most of the Jodi Picoult books. I remember reading "My Sister's Keeper" on the bus and trying so hard not to cry.

Nicholas Sparks, too.

 

[kaytieeldr]

One Day. Totally unexpected.

 

[NMAmy]

One Day. Totally unexpected.

I loved that book until I hit that part and then the author totally ticked me off. I cried, too.

To Kill a Mockingbird and Little Women always make me cry each time I reread them.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Inspired by the What Movies Made You Bawl Your Eye Out thread, has there ever been a book that made you cry?

The first for me was Where the Red Fern Grows. I was in 8th grade and a total mess by the end of that book.

The most recent was Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. Sad, sad book.

Fewer than movies, but still a bunch.

Where the Red Fern Grows (yeah, that's a hard one)
Rascal
The Red Pony (are we sensing a theme here?)
Secretariat: The Making of a Champion
Harry Potter 6
The Day the World Came to Town

 

[magicgirl]

My Sister's Keeper, I was reading this book on the plane over to Florida. I found the ending so unepected and shocking that I sat in my seat with the tears running down my face. My DH was very concerned about me.

 

[McKelly]

Dragonfly in Amber, which is the sequel to Outlander, which I don't recall crying in, but Dragonfly, oh boy.........I think I scared the kids!! LOL!

 

[RitaE]

John Grisham's last one The Confession. I won't say what scene made me cry because it would be a spoiler - but it was at the end with a Mom and her son.

 

[Liberty Belle]

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

 

[cristit14]

Pretty much all Nicholas Sparks. Message in a Bottle I was crying so hard that I couldn't even see the words on the page.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Marley & Me. The book made me cry so hard that I never intend to see the movie.

 

[Syrreal]

Marley & Me. I bawled on that book!
HP
At least one of the House of NIght books got me teary (but that may be more the preg horomones than actually the books)

ETA- I only Netflixed M&Me because I knew there was no way I could see that movie in the theater

 

[MOMTOCUTESTDOGEVER]

Where the Red Fern Grows
The Time Traveler's Wife

 

[*JoGo*]

I quit reading Nicholas Sparks after the 2nd or 3rd one made me cry. I do not enjoy crying.

Time Traveler's Wife -- wow I bawled! and i never finished it! i was too upset!


Also...
Little Women
Pride & Prejudice (my FAVE book)
Sense & Sensibility
Gone with the Wind
Uncle Tom's Cabin

i'm sure there are more.... i read a lot.
i don't mind a sad part where i cry a bit b/c i love the characters... it's the books that are written to MAKE you cry - like Nicholas Sparks. i'm a slow learner, took a few of his books for me to learn that.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

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

 

[Liberty Belle]

I quit reading Nicholas Sparks after the 2nd or 3rd one made me cry. I do not enjoy crying.

Time Traveler's Wife -- wow I bawled! and i never finished it! i was too upset!


Also...
Little Women
Pride & Prejudice (my FAVE book)
Sense & Sensibility
Gone with the Wind
Uncle Tom's Cabin

i'm sure there are more.... i read a lot.
i don't mind a sad part where i cry a bit b/c i love the characters... it's the books that are written to MAKE you cry - like Nicholas Sparks. i'm a slow learner, took a few of his books for me to learn that.

I agree. I vowed to never read another Nicholas Sparks book and I even emailed him and told him that.

Pride & Prejudice is one of my favorite books, too. I think it, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are my top three favorites (but of course there are many, many more that I love).

 

[Wall-E1]

Same as my movie choice - Go Toward the Light. Old Yeller also.

 

[LilyWDW]

The Black Jewels Trilogy by Ann Bishop.

I don't cry at TV/Movies/Books that easily, but I was bawling at parts of this trilogy. It is also one of the best fantasy series I have ever read... and fantasy is most of what I read.

 

[Pakey]

My Sergie was by far the worst crying jag for me, perhaps because it's non fiction. I even cried when telling others about it after reading it.

 

[busyshrew]

I'm a book-bawler too. Used to drive DH crazy but now he just laughs at me and gives me some kleenex.

Here's my short list:

Flowers for Algernon
Through a Glass Darkly
Tigana
Time Traveller's Wife
Memoirs of a Geisha

Interestingly enough, I never cried reading Angela's Ashes. So much of the book is tragic and appalling, and yet so much of it made me howl with laughter too!

I also cry over almost every single Judith McNaught romance novel I've read. Now isn't that silly?