Books that Made you Cry?

Cosy_Mimi · Mar 20, 2014

This is quite embarrassing really, but last night I read the delightful book 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane' by Kate Dicamillo and I actually shed a tear at the end.

It got me thinking that surely this is the definition of a successful fiction writer - to inflict such an emotional impact on the reader. (well certainly to me it's one of the most important aims).

It just reinforces the power and beauty of books.

(Or maybe I was just a bit hormonal that day!)

Have any books you read recently made you cry?

Calla Lily · Mar 20, 2014

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron

warofthesparks · Mar 20, 2014

My Sister's Keeper
Looking For Alaska
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

EMaree · Mar 20, 2014

WONDER

That friggin' book. THAT BOOK.

Looking For Alaska made me tear up too, and After Hamelin is one of the first ever books that made me cry.

Wilde_at_heart · Mar 20, 2014

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.

For my brother it was Charlotte's Web - he bawled after reading that.

I've started The Night Circus but I own a copy so I'm finishing two other books from the library first...

Calla Lily · Mar 20, 2014

Oh, yes. Charlotte's Web.

Cosy_Mimi · Mar 20, 2014

Wilde_at_heart said:
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.
..

Me too! I adore his fairy tales

HarvesterOfSorrow · Mar 20, 2014

Joyland - Stephen King
Hollow City - Ransom Riggs
The Light Between Oceans - ML Steadman

rhymegirl · Mar 21, 2014

Where the Heart Is

Myrealana · Mar 21, 2014

The Fault in Our Stars
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

hester · Mar 21, 2014

The Giving Tree.
Atonement.
And another vote for Charlotte's Web.

mrsmig · Mar 21, 2014

I bawled like a baby over a book called My Sweet Lemon Tree (or something like it) when I was a teenager. I think it must be long out of print; I've never been able to find a copy of it.

Calla Lily · Mar 21, 2014

If you're a mom: I'll Love You Forever.

The blasted book should be packaged with a box of Kleenex.

fredXgeorge · Mar 22, 2014

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
On the Jellicoe Road
The Hunger Games
Helen of Troy

Emermouse · Mar 24, 2014

The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer. None of the other Last Survivors books have affected me the way this one did.

Mclesh · Mar 24, 2014

Calla Lily said:
If you're a mom: I'll Love You Forever.

The blasted book should be packaged with a box of Kleenex.

Yes, guilty.

Add another vote for Charlotte's Web. Big ugly tears. (I also cry each time I watch the movie E.T. even though I know the ending.)

Greene_Hesperide1990 · Mar 24, 2014

Myrealana said:
The Fault in Our Stars
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

I was so close to crying with those two but so far

Outsiders
Mockingjay
Brother, I'm Dying

Shadow_Ferret · Mar 24, 2014

I have yet to read a book that actually makes me cry.

Calla Lily said:
If you're a mom: I'll Love You Forever.

The blasted book should be packaged with a box of Kleenex.

Is that that that stalking book? I just found it creepy.

Lady MacBeth · Mar 24, 2014

Little Women
Charlotte's Web
Anne of Green Gables

mscourtmcginnis · Apr 19, 2014

Recently, I cried during:
The Fault in Our Stars
Allegiant, which is the last book in the Divergent series.

Tazlima · Apr 19, 2014

I don't cry readily and there's only one book that has ever made me choke up every time, even after multiple rereadings.

Where the Red Fern Grows

Lauram6123 · Apr 19, 2014

A Farewell to Arms

The Giving Tree - I'd read it a million times as a kid and it was a nice story. But when I read it as a parent...whoa. Too much.

angeluscado · Apr 19, 2014

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Bridge to Terabithia
The Hunger Games
Mockingjay

I also have a couple of books where I know I'm going to cry because I had an ugly cry when I watched the movie the book was based on. Nicholas Sparks, anyone?

Jo Zebedee · Apr 19, 2014

Loads, but Captain Corelli's and The Time Traveler's Wife stand out. And the Last Battle. And the end of Rachel's Holiday without fail.

Tissue, anyone?

dolores haze · Apr 19, 2014

Black Beauty
Birds Without Wings
The Road
Never Let Me Go

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