Books that made you cry

:bawling: As the title suggest, I have searched if there are any similar threads like this one but I couldn't find any so it is either I suck at searching or there isn't any.
So, what novel made you cry? And what was the scene or situation (if you still remember) that this happens.
Mine would be right when Jean Valjean died at the end Les Misrables. That was really emostional. The other one would be the oned when Illyosha died at the end of The Brothers Karmazov and when Alyosha was giving his speech at that moment.
That's all what comes to mind right now.

Anne of Green Gables and where the Red Fern Grows - I may have posted this here before. I was young though - no laughing. there were deaths involved here.

I mentioned Flowers for Algernon awhile back. I see that a few people have mentioned Alice Walker's The Color Purple. I was going to mention that one, too. I was more emotional over the film, though (I cried pretty hard, I must admit).

Just because I am curious, why do people cry at Gone With The Wind?

I rarely cry when I read the book... I'm sad, disturbed, but usually I don't cry.

But I did cry when George shot poor Lennie in Steibeck's Of Mice and Men. I kept crying into my pillow saying "it's so unfair! he didn't mean it, he was innocent, it's not fair!" over and over. :)

It was a Greek book with the title "When the Unicorns Were Lost".

A while ago i read a book called P.S i love you, that made me cry so much. Today i went to the cinema and actually watched the film version of it, and i have never cried so much in my life, i cried from the moment it started to the moment it finished and for about half an hour after.

Additionally, when i was younger i read a book called Pig Heart Boy, and i remembered how much i loved so i reread it and i had a larger understanding of it so that mad me cry really badly.

but my judgement as far as emotional books go cannot be trusted as i do cry at anything...i am very unstable :)

1.) P.S. I love you
2.) Atonement (the ending)
But that's it...
It's more films that make me cry.

I was thinking about All Quiet on the Western Front the other day. I didn't cry at that book, but it was definitely an emotionally draining story for me. I saw the film and I wanted to read the book. As good as the film was, it comes nowhere near to the original story. I really didn't expect that book to have such an effect on me like it did. It was the sort of story that made me just have such a feeling of "emptiness" afterwards. Sad, depressing story, but a very good one! It may not have made me shed a tear but it came pretty darn close to it!

``Maggie: A Girl of the Streets`` by Stephan Crane:


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A terribly painful tragedy. But a very true story about life in NYC's mean streets.

Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Although I didn't cry while reading McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter it depressed me immensely.

Memory
SO shuts the marigold her leaves
At the departure of the sun;
So from the honeysuckle sheaves
The bee goes when the day is done;
So sits the turtle when she is but one,
And so all woe, as I since she is gone.

To some few birds kind Nature hath
Made all the summer as one day:
Which once enjoy'd, cold winter's wrath
As night they sleeping pass away.
Those happy creatures are, that know not yet
The pain to be deprived or to forget.

I oft have heard men say there be
Some that with confidence profess
The helpful Art of Memory:
But could they teach Forgetfulness,
I'd learn; and try what further art could do
To make me love her and forget her too.

LOTR when gollum sees sam and frodo huddled up asleep in Cirith Ungol and when Pippin finds Merry in Minas Tirith after the battle of the pelennor and Merry says "are you going to bury me".

Plague Dogs , Richard Adams. Especially "The Tod"

Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, the Ginger Bit

All of these had me greeting and sobbing

There have been several books that I have read that made me cry. One in particular is Marley and Me. If you ever owned or currently own a dog you will understand.

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Originally Posted by bonnie banks

Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, the Ginger Bit

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Me too! I wept!

Gone With The Wind - when Bonnie dies and onwards, i simply cannot control myself.

Thomas Hardy always make me cry too, 'Tess' in particular.

And then as for books that haven't actually made me cry but have upset me/left me with that hideous dull empty feeling:

Villette - Charlotte Brönte
Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

Despite this, they are still two of my absolute favourite books.

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.