Books that made you cry

[Dark Star]

I forgot about The Sorrows of Young Werther! That one definitely hit me in the pit of my stomach.

[byquist]

George Elliot's "The Mill on the Floss"

"Magsie" Tulliver is just so outstandingly good a person, that she makes the rudest, raving monster cry.

[Lothwen]

"Gone with the wind" by Margaret Mitchell
"Ziele na kraterze" by Melchior Wańkowicz (I was trying to find english translation of this title, but without success, so that's my word by word translation: "Herb on the crater"

Sometimes, I think it's stupid to read some book hundret time and still cry in the same moments. I was trying to persuade myself not to cry, but it didn't work - there were always moments, when my eyes were full of tears.
Now, I think it's wonderful - to have my own nook to cry

[Annamariah]

Sometimes, I think it's stupid to read some book hundret time and still cry in the same moments. I was trying to persuade myself not to cry, but it didn't work - there were always moments, when my eyes were full of tears.

Even when you know the story by heart and know exactly what's going to happen, it doesn't make it any the less sad and so you can't help but cry.

I always cry when I read The Little Match Girl by H. C. Andersen. Somehow it's one of the saddest fairy tales ever The Little Mermaid is another one.

[firefangled]

Sophie's Choice I had to put down for a day or two before I could resume.

The last sentence of To Kill a Mockingbird, where Scout says that Atticus would be with Jem all night and be there when he woke up in the morning. I wanted Atticus Finch to be my father.

Several times during One Hundred Years of Solitude just because it was just so beautifully written.

[metal134]

I've never cried because of a book, but the saddest I've ever felt while reading a book was the end of "Of Mice and Men". I didn't cry, but damn if it didn't make me feel sad.

[Annabel Lee]

I know its not a classic, but one of the few books that has made me cry was Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. I cried so hard that I couldn't even see the pages. This story is a real tear jerker.
And the only other books I can think of off the top of my head are Red and White by Ted Dekker (a Christian/Fiction author). These books also made me cry so hard that I couldn't see the page, especially White.

[Pensive]

I know its not a classic, but one of the few books that has made me cry was Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. I cried so hard that I couldn't even see the pages. This story is a real tear jerker.

I have read A Walk to Remember and really liked it a lot! It was also a tear-jerker at times. I wish I can get my hands on Message in a Bottle as well, it seems good.

[ampoule]

The Horse Whisperer, the riding accident especially.
It was even worse seeing the movie. I knew it was coming and I covered my eyes. But what good did that do when the whole thing was already in my head......

[PrinceMyshkin]

Sophie's Choice I had to put down for a day or two before I could resume.

The last sentence of To Kill a Mockingbird, where Scout says that Atticus would be with Jem all night and be there when he woke up in the morning. I wanted Atticus Finch to be my father.

Several times during One Hundred Years of Solitude just because it was just so beautifully written.

You want a killer last sentence, Dude? (Not to mention one of my all-time favourite titles.) Get yourself a copy of Thos. McMahon's "Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel"

Or the second of the two stories, collectively "Two short, unhappy stories from a long and happy life" in Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man The sentence begins "And my heart, like a fat barred king in Alcatraz..." (quoting from memory but it's a triumph of English sentence structure)

[karolab]

I cried at Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a walk to remember,sophies choice was really bad.

[uranderson]

Yeah, Sophie's Choice was hard. The ending of A Farewell to Arms was tough too.

Kawabata's Snow Country is up there...I don't remember if I actually cried, but the overriding tone of desolation and disconnection was pretty heavy. Mishima's Spring Snow would be in the same category, too understated and cerebral to pull heartstrings, but devastating still.

[Reccura]

Not yet.... no book... well, maybe there is one, but it didn't really made me cry. The Green Mile by Stephen King.... When Coffey was being electrocuted to death and the last thing he saw was Edgecombe...

[ThousandthIsle]

Where the Red Fern Grows! Excellent! I have been looking for the name of that book for so long. Thank you.

psst. I had the same experience. Also with another lost book, I think called The Lion, where a young girl goes to Africa to a safari and her dad has to kill a lion. Very sad.

I have no idea if this is based on the same book... A long time ago, I saw a movie called Ghost in the Darkness... I don't remember much about it because I was very very young, but I know that it was about a man hunting a very dangerous lion. Hmm...

[Annabel Lee]

I have read A Walk to Remember and really liked it a lot! It was also a tear-jerker at times. I wish I can get my hands on Message in a Bottle as well, it seems good.

Oh yes, Message in a Bottle was wonderful. I didn't read A Walk to Remember but I saw the movie, and I liked Message in a Bottle a lot more.