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What books have been able to make you cry?


I cried like a baby during The Book Thief as well as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I'm sure I cried at parts during other books but those are the two I remember crying the most while reading.

I'll man up and confess:
-The Time Traveler's Wife killed me during the miscarriage time period.
-The end of My Sister's Keeper (while very cookie-cutter and predictable) still kind of got to me.

Ah that's another one that made me cry..The Time Traveler's Wife!!

Props to you for manning up and confessing!haha What is it with guys and crying? It's a natural human emotion..it's sad that guys feel like they have to be ashamed.

~The Book Thief
~Harry Potter (I cried when Dumbledore died. And when the Weasley twin died.)

There are more I'm sure, but those are all I can think of at the moment.

I've heard alot of people say that they have cried during The Book Thief. I was glad I wasn't alone. I just remember I stayed up late one night..like 4 am to finish it and I was just bawling like a baby.

-The Time Traveler's Wife
-The Lovely Bones (at the end)

I know there are more but I'm having a brain freeze.

I am a real emotional person, and when I read a book that captures my attention like not many do, I cry when sad things happen. The Hunger Games and Cathing Fire are two books that made me cry. Of course there are others, but I cant remember them all, the list goes on and on. Okay, maybe not that long, but it seems that way.

The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks. I bawled like a baby at the end.

Kissed by an Angel collection by Elizabeth Chandler. That book actually upset me so much that I could not keep it. lol. A sweet cat is brutally murdered and it was described in detail. I just can't handle that ever!

I've only managed to actually fully cry on one book so far and that's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when my favorite character died...and then I practically bawled.

Where the Red Fern Grows
Ptolemy's Gate
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Possession: A Romance
Idlewild
Edenborn
My Sister's Keeper, not for the story, but because the brother's parts were always so sad.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Time Traveler's Wife
Never Let Me Go

I'm sure there are more...

Oh yes. Where the Red Fern Grows made me cry too.

Where the Red Fern Grows
Message in a Bottle
Bridge to Terabithia
On My Honor
The Lovely Bones
Freak the Mighty
Marley & Me Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Of Mice and Men
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

...just to name a few! Haha. I am the worst crier when it comes to books! I think I criend the hardest at Marley and Me. Man, that book was sad!

I've never actually cried, but I must say I shed a tear or two with Great Expectations. Jorge Amado's Capitães da Areia got me really close to it as well.

Jana wrote: "Oh yes. Where the Red Fern Grows made me cry too. "
i cried when the dog got cut open by that lion... i didnt want to read it because i was embarassed that i cried=(

off the top if my head...

a couple of the Harry Potters, Love Is a Mix Tape Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Child Called "It" One Child's Courage to Survive, Walk Two Moons, The Time Traveler's Wife...so many others i'm just not thinking of

Oh my gosh..A Child Called It!! That book definitely made me cry!

Books that made me cry? Too many...

Chinese Cinderella The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter- I pretty much cried non-stop in that.
A Man Named Dave A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry- that book is so sad!
Before I Die- When her younger brother says 'Haunt me if you want. I don't mind'..it's so sad! I skipped my friends 18th birthday (which she doesn't know about, she thinks I was sick) but really I was reading that book!
Oh, and The Amber Spyglass

Also, a few of the Harry Potter books..tonnes more....Wuthering Heights, especially the speech that Heathcliff makes in ch.16. I HATE Catherine!

Oh yeah, I forgot about The Amber Spyglass. I cried like a baby.

Emily wrote: "Oh yeah, I forgot about The Amber Spyglass. I cried like a baby."

Gah. Glad I'm not the only one. I just finished listening to all of the books (the audio book is excellent) and I cried. Probably not the best thing considering I was driving...

Books don't make me cry but sometimes I will read a book where it has a scene that makes me cry. For example in "Chosen" of the House of Night Series, one the characters dies and dies in her friend's arm(sorry can't remember the names). The scene was written so well that it felt like I was actually there watching it and it brougt some tears to the brim of eyes.

I don't really cry while reading books, but I definitely teared up at the end of Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. I think this one got to me more than the first one did, for some reason. I'm sure there are others, but Forever Odd was the most recent.

I very rarely cry while reading, but the one particular moment that stands out in my memory is when I was finishing up Les Miserables in school... I was literally weeping so hard that I had to put my head down on the desk to hide it.

A lot of books have made me cry...

Gone With the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch-22
The Things They Carried
All Quiet on the Western Front
and most recently (aka, this morning!) The Story of Layla and Majnun.

Kimberly wrote: "
~Harry Potter (I cried when Dumbledore died. And when the Weasley twin died.)"

I'm happy I'm not the only one who cried like a kid when Dumbledore died. And I cried all through "The Prince's Tale" Chapter in Deathly Hallows too!

Another book that made me cry was The Elegance of the Hedgehog, but that was because Renée reminded me of someone I met in real life.

I cried throughout the entirety of HP and the Deathly Hallows. My eyes were red for days. I cried during 5, 6, and 7.

I don't remember every actually crying while reading... just being really sad. I'm ashamed to say I DIDN'T cry during HP. I mean, I was super sad, but I don't remember crying.

I'd actually say I'm a super emotional person... I feel like I cry all the time.. but it's usually about stuff going on in my life or things I'm worrying about. Music makes me cry the most, I've cried in a couple movies, but not during any books. Weird?

I cry all the time while reading.. If there's romance in it and starcrossed lover or just a fight I cry, and when someone dies. I cried over Sirius and Dumbledore dying.
Johanna Lindsey books make me cry (I know I'm a sap and that everything's gonna work out in the end, cause that's just how those books work, but I can't help it) with all the heartache before they're all happy together.

I think there were some others (possibly the last HP book), but the two I remember crying over are The Time Traveler's Wife and Flowers for Algernon.

I cry ALL the time when I read...
I cried so hard when reading The Book Thief that I had a headache the next day.
Others would be...well every single Nicholas Sparks book (I am being serious), The Sweet Far Thing also made me cry so hard I had to wait for my eyes to stop blurring so I could see the page...My Sister's Keeper.
There are so many I can't even pinpoint them anymore. Kind of sad.

Any of the Nicholas Sparks books, but i can remember reading A Walk to Remember on a plane balling my eyes out with a complete stranger next to me, how embarrassing.

The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia
Never Let Me Go

I cry when I read, but I don't really sob too often. Here are the ones I really remember SOBBING while I read them:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, especially the chapter about Snape.

The Crown of Dalemark--for some reason I just thought a part near the end was SO SAD.

I cried last night when I read the end of The Tequila Worm, too.

Just cried reading The Book Thief. I also remember crying while reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

I read Letter to D by Andre Gorz recently. It's non-fiction. The book is the letter that the philosopher Andre Gorz wrote to his wife when she was dying. It's fairly short and it's so beautiful! I was in tears whilst reading it.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Sirius died.I remember this because I was waiting for my Cosmology class to start and my professor walks in and asks if Im okay. My friend told him it was the book, he was the type that wouldnt read HP.
Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsWhen Hedwig, Fred, Lupin, Moody and Tonks. Wow this book had alot more death in it than I remember. This movies is going to be really sad.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore dies.

I cried when I read Skylight Confessions.

The Time Traveler's Wife

I know that there are others but I cant recall them.

I remember when my apartmentmate was reading HP-DH. I had read it over the summer when it first came out, but she was reading it right at the beginning of the school year. So one afternoon, I was sitting on my bed reading or something and she just stands in my doorway with a blank look on her face and says, "Lynn, Dobby's dead." and then I consoled her. haha.

Aww I remember, my parents just thought that I was nuts. Then again I bawled my eyes out when I watched the final episode of Star Trek Voyager.

Where have you been when you starting crying while reading? Any interesting places? What were the reactions of the people near you?

Mine I would have to say is at school with HP my physics teacher thought I was weird. My mom was reading Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas on an Air Plane and started crying and she said that lost of people looked at her like she was crazy.

I was crying in the car while listening to an audiobook..driving down the highway wasn't a big deal because nobody could see me but when I got off the exit and was sitting at a light it was pretty awkward when this guy was staring at me because I was bawling.

I just wanted to mention this... there are a lot of spoilers going on here. I've read all the books that have spoilers mentioned but just wanted to throw it out there!

Thanks Tahleen! Please label anything that might give something away as a possible spoiler. Thanks everyone! :)

I cried when I read "Flowers for Algernon" in like 8th grade or something.

I cried when I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in 11th grade.

And I definitely cried in parts of Lord of the Rings. I love that book.


Melissa wrote: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Sirius died.I remember this because I was waiting for my Cosmology class to start and my professor walks in and asks if Im okay. My friend to..."

Ha. I didn't cry when Dumbledore died, I was pissed. I was so mad. And the funny thing is, I read it this past summer. I had no idea that was going to happen. They've been selling t-shirts and stuff about that for years and some how I had never encountered that information.

The Deathly Hallows did the trick though.

I don't usually cry during books (but I do during TV shows and movies) but The Art of Racing in the Rain definitely had me sitting next to the tissue box.

That was a good book!

Jeaniene frost 3rd book in night huntress series made me cry! Lol books don't usually make me cry but that one did

geez... probable every book i have ever read...i tear up during commercials

the time travelers wife when...well most of the time
the kite runner killed me
the lovely bones

just to name a few

Before I Die,Thirteen Reasons Why,The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys,and the Book of Michael.

The only times a book has made me cry. Especially, Before I Die and Book of Michael.

I am glad I am not one of the only ones who cried sometime during Harry Potter!

Oh Kelly, I bawled my freakin' eyes out. So hard, in fact, that my mother came to check on me.

Oh man, I will never forget reading the last HP book. I started bawling and hyperventilating, and then I started laughing at the same time once everything was okay. It was the strangest experience, to be laughing and crying at the same time.

But yeah, I definitely cried during the 5th, 6th, and 7th HP books.

Donald wrote: "Before I Die,Thirteen Reasons Why,The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys,and the Book of Michael.

The only times a book has made me cry. Espe..."

Oh my gosh! I didn't know that The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys was a book! I liked the movie!