Books that made you cry?

Wildfly

Wildfly

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Mine is Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto.
 
Do you want the short list of the long list? I get really emotional when I love a book, it doesn't really take that much to make me cry.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant not only made me cry, but the ending I think broke me for a few weeks. Like, I couldn't sleep for a few days after, and all I could think of was the book. Why do I even put myself through this I ask myself sometimes? But it was an excellent book, A+.

The Huntress made me cry, so did HP and the Half-Blood Prince. I was not ready for Dumbledore's death. Pretty sure I cried in Deathly Hallow too. Cried in Orphan 8, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Enchanted. Lots of other books too, those are just recent ones.
 
ILLYRIAN
ILLYRIAN
The short list please, long lists tend to make me cry.
Blaze said:
The Traitor Baru Cormorant not only made me cry, but the ending I think broke me for a few weeks. Like, I couldn't sleep for a few days after, and all I could think of was the book.
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That does it. i have to read this book.
went to look at the reviews , and Baru's character is so intriguing.
 
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I cried almost every page with sheer anger, because the writing is so well done that I can feel the emotion in the story. Then, A Thousand Splendid Suns, another of his stories. Essentially, his books make me cry with anger and I love it so much that his stories are so real and full of life. I also find them rather educational.
 
Wildfly said:
That does it. i have to read this book.
went to look at the reviews , and Baru's character is so intriguing.
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You won't regret reading this book. It is pure genius, it is a very, very intelligent book. And it manages to make economics really interesting 😛 But seriously, the characters are so well crafted. And what's awesome is that if you pay attention, the book actually means for you to know the ending before it happens, so I wouldn't exactly call it a surprise ending, but the way it happens, ugh, it just pulls at your heart strings. Days after I had read it, I was analyzing the actions of certain characters, realizing how in depth this book was, and how everything was so perfectly plotted. I could talk about this books for days, if ever you get around to reading it, I'll look forward to your review!
 
None. However a book that really stuck with me and made me cringe and whimper out a few times was Anne Rice's A Cry to Heaven. Love that book. It's amazing.
 
The autobiography by Mark Webber called Aussie Grit.
He used to be a Champion F1 race car driver for Red Bull Racing
 
Does "Charlotte's Web" count? Our teacher read it to us when I was in the 2nd Grade, and I was heart broken for days.

Also, the first sentence of the foreword of John Myers Myers documentary, "The Alamo," brings a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye every time that I read it:


“Those who doubt the greatness of men can leave this book alone or read and recant."

Corney, I know, but then I'm a corney old man.
 
The Little Mermaid.

When I was a little kid, I was scared to death and crying when finished it. I kept picturing myself as a seagull dying of suffocation because my beak was stuck in a whale's skin, thanks to the book's vivid description. The witch who used snakes to wash her potion pot was very haunting too.
 
Wildfly
Wildfly
I was shocked by that one too as a kid, not just because she didn't get her happy end with her prince, but for the strage reward she did get instead.
The King James Bible

It makes me cry to find out I will have an afterlife. What will I do in heaven, spend billions of years posting on the internet in a forum like this?
 
I was at the bookshop the other day and saw a hard back copy of The Three Books of Occult Philosophy on the top shelf so I stood on my tip toes to get it down, the book next to it a King James bible fell down onto my head. It didn't make me cry but it sure brought tears to my eyes.
 
Don't think I've ever cried from reading a book, although I've got to admit that I found some passages in Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World quite moving, but not in a sad way.
 
I'm not really a cryer, period, and definitely not in books or movies. Unless an animal dies. So, for books, Marley & Me. I finished reading it right before I left for work one morning. Such a terrible idea.
 
white avenger said:
Does "Charlotte's Web" count? Our teacher read it to us when I was in the 2nd Grade, and I was heart broken for days.
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of course it counts! it's one of the greatest books ever written. i would encourage you--if you haven't already--to read it as an adult. you will find it much more layered and nuanced. eb white knew exactly what he was doing, and he does so beautifully.

in addition to charlotte's web, fred gipson's old yeller brings me to tears every time. also, bridge to terribithia by katherine patterson is a major tear-inducer. i've never gotten to the end of of mice and men without bawling my eyes out either.
 
PassionBecoming said:
I'm not really a cryer, period, and definitely not in books or movies. Unless an animal dies. So, for books, Marley & Me. I finished reading it right before I left for work one morning. Such a terrible idea.
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Not a cryer, either, but when a dog dies... I cried for Marley and so many others, not only because of the animal in question, but because with every story my dog died again and again. Some fictional doggy books made me cry, too, like A Dog of Flanders (heartbreaking) and The Dog Who Spoke with Gods (by Diane Jessup); in this last one, it's not the dog that dies, by the way, but I believe I shed some tears.

 
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