10 books that made me CRY (and why you should read them)
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Here are 10 of my favorite books which have made me cry my eyes and heart out!
Hi friends!
If you're like me, then you (weirdly) LOVE it when a book can make you weep uncontrollably! FUN!!!
I have gathered some of my favorite heartbreaking books to share with you, incase you're in the mood for some tears! (You're welcome)
I would also love it if you could tell me which books have broken your heart, so I can add them to my "this book is going to make me cry" TBR list :) (Thank you :P)
Sending you my warmest (tearful) wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
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I’m not really a crier, but “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi got me teary eyed. It’s a memoir about a surgeon who gets diagnosed with a terminal illness, so you know the ending, more or less, but you want him to survive so bad that it still shocks you.
Oh my gosh, yes 😭
Thank you for recommending great books.😘
01:55 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
04:45 A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
08:33 Son by Lois Lowry
10:45 The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
12:43 A Monster Calls: Inspired by Patrick Ness
14:38 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
17:06 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
18:50 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
21:38 THE LITTLE PRINCE by ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY
25:17 The Marvels by Brian Selznick
Surprisingly East of Eden made me cry. The characters are just so well written.
My favorite book.
The Book Thief for sure! And The Giving Tree (I can't even get past the first line!)
I’m currently reading The Lord of the Rings, and I have teared up a couple of times (I’m sure more tears will follow as I reach the ending). However, no book has made me sob as hard as The Book Thief. Ove is very high on my TBR! Will cry for sure
You can say that again!
oh my god the book thief!! i cried for days😢
Yeeeesssss, the Book Thief got me depressed for days after and five years after reading it... I still think about the characters.
I feel like in the future when I'm reading one of your books, your writing will make me cry. Not because the story was brutal or scarring but how beautifully wholesome it was. They will be tears of healing 🧡
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque completely destroyed me and broke my heart. But it's such an important and deeply human book, that I feel like it should be required reading, especially for the poeple responsible for wars.
A few more books that made me cry are:
- The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I cried at the end of "Tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens. Honestly I wish I cried more while reading 😊
Have you read And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer?
Me too 🥲🥲
@@rubyanddelilahandnani no, but I heard a lot about Backman. Maybe I need to check him out))
Every book by Thomas Hardy will make you cry. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was a good call. But the most devastating one for me was Jude, the Obscure. Jane Eyre can sometimes still make me cry. Both The Nightingale and The Kite Runner made me cry but both left me feeling a bit manipulated. A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote, makes us sob each and every year. A Christmas Carol makes me cry a bit too. Les Miserables definitely made me cry several different times. Ray Bradbury's short story "All Summer in a Day," Just about every major Dickens novel, but especially, NIckolas Nickelby and a Tale of Two Cities, Anne of Green Gables and all the others in the series, Tender is the Night, Ethan Frome, Charlotte's Web and a Diary of Young Girl.
Books that brought me to tears:
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Beartown Ofcourse!
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Kite Runner is the most heart-wrenching thing I have ever read
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” - Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran is poetry in prose form. Utterly timeless!
I know you mentioned a Mitch Albom book but Five People You Meet In Heaven is the one by him that gets me every time.
I have it on my bookshelf and I still haven't had the courage to read it 😅
I cried,no to be more precise, I bawled,while reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara such a beautiful novel 😢
I’m not a regular cryer. But since the beginning of the year, Backman has me bawling. I also felt destroyed by Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot in January . I did not anticipate that ending. I left feeling totally empty thinking « How can you do this to me, Dosty? »
There were certain sections of David Copperfield that definitely made me sentimental. I was not ready for Martha comparing herself to the river. She took me by surprise and I felt her in a very deep level.
I recently read David Copperfield for Game of Tomes, and I cried at the end, it has so many beautiful characters 🥺
His crappy childhood made me tear up. I haven't finished it yet, but I spoiled part of it for myself and I expect to tear up a bit in the near future.
The Cider House rules by John Irving made me cry so hard. (you might know the movie with Tobey Maguire and Michael Caine?) So did A man called Ove, Call me by your name, Harry Potter, Never let me go, East of Eden, Song of Achilles, Me before you...but there are so many more. It's also incredibly easy to make me cry. I cry all the time while reading books, watching movies or tv shows. I constantly cry when I'm listening to movie scores. They make me very emotional 🤗🤗💖💖
The Book Thief made me cry like never before
Yes! I love when books bring out such raw emotions out of readers! I am taking notes Carolyn! 🖊️ 📝🗒️📑❤ and that tear on the thumbnail!! It’s totally believable as you said on IG! 😂💧🥲
What a great way for me to start off my day! Thank you for another wonderful video! You are a ray of sunshine ☀️
The book that made me cry the most is "Human Acts" by Han Kang. This novel is set against the backdrop of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980, a historic event in Korea. Many people died due to the military regime's suppression, and "Human Acts" tells the stories of those who died or survived then. Han Kang has also won the International Booker Prize, and her writing is extremely beautiful yet sharp. (Actually, I cry almost every time when I read any of her books 😂) By the way, I always enjoy watching your videos. Sending love from Korea 💝
This book haunts me 💔
I’ve had this book sitting on my TBR shelf for YEARS - you make me want to read it next (after I finish reading “Gone” by Min Kym, which I’m very much enjoying atm!)
I cried on 1. A little life, i actually cried alot on this one, 2.The boy in a stripped pyjamas 3. A man called Ove
Oh a man called ove has been on my shelf for a pretty long time but it's soo hard to get into for me
‘The Little Prince’ leaves me crying buckets each time I read it. ‘A Man Called Ove’ was another book that broke my heart. And ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ just totally tore my heart to pieces.
It's funny because Antoine de Saint Exupéry grew up close to where I live... His childhood home is in disrepair because the townhall and his family don't agree on what to do with it... It's such a shame because it is a beautiful mansion and it could be a great museum!
I usually never cry while reading books... The only one that has made me cry is a short story by Ken Liu, "The Paper Menagerie"... I'm sure his other short stories are just as devastating 😭 Would totally recommend!
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens made me cry buckets and buckets after reading. This book has an ending that I will continue to think of for years and years to come. I can’t wait to reread it!
Two books that made me cry recently are:
- Happening by Annie Ernaux
- A tree grows in Brooklyn
I was just going to comment that ‘A tree Grows in Brooklyn’ makes me cry. I love it so.
the little prince is one of my favourite books ever
I have wept for three movies and three books.
BOOKS
27) "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosiński
45) "A Child called 'It"" by Dave Pelzer
104) "The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story" by Gloria Houston
MOVIES
10) Spiderman: No Way Home (2021)
27) Schindler's List (1993)
and a movie that I can't seem to put into my favorite movies list as I can't find the right version of "Who will Love my Children?"
"The Painted Bird" made me cry for the first love of the main character. He has to put up with such awful things and yet any man would gladly put up with all that he had to put up with prior to becoming a man to make sure their first love never has to put up with what she puts up with and so upon hearing of what happens to her I broke down in tears thinking he already had to put up with so much how could such a horrible thing happen to the little girl he loves.
"A Child called It" made me cry when his mother was trying to shove his head into a bucket of acid and so to save his face from being eaten away he puts his hands into the bucket to keep his head from going into it. Later his mother sends him to school with no skin on either of his hands and the teachers begin crying for all the other things they had ignored seeing if this is what it has come to for him. All the laws of mandated reporters exist because of him.
"The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree" made me cry at the end that all that love and wonderful society was missing something and when that missing something returned it was emotional for me.
That last Spiderman movie made me cry cause my first love, when I was fourteen and so was she, hit her head and forgot who I was as she had just met me that day. She told me to get her friends and never show my face to her again as she didn't know who I was and so I stayed at the park while she went to the hospital as that was what she requested, but later when I asked the friends to help me met her again they hated me for doing what she said. I just wanted a chance to try remeeting again aside from the day we met and fell in love to see if it could happen again. So when Spiderman abandoned his speech of who he was and merely left the coffee shop I cried because I realized what he was going to do. He was going to become friends with his friend so that he could re-enact meeting her in college through his friend and then it would be more like real as opposed to some speech she wouldn't understand and that was what I wanted to do too.
"Schindler's List" for the car and ring scene because I read the book and knew Schindler was not really like that at all.
Finally, the movie "Who will Love my Children?" which has the scene of the boy at four years old at the bottom of the steps (and only the one that has the boy at the bottom of the steps, which I can't find) refusing to be adopted by rich wonderful parents because his disabled five year old brother will be alone and so when he reveals he refuses them because "no one will love my brother" I broke down crying thinking of a four year old giving up on a real good life because of his brother. And then after crying hard for that I cried even more when the rich parents adopt both of them.
what is the reason for the numbers in your list?
@@kurtfox4944, the numbers are where those books or movies fall on my favorites list. "The Painted Bird" is an amazing story of a gypsy boy in Poland having to deal with Germany and Russia ravaging his country and yet he writes the story per his childhood perspective, not as he sees it now as an adult. This perspective makes it unbelievable and powerful. He sees the Germans treatment of gypsies as worthy as they are so well dressed and above his society and when a Nazi tells him to run and fires in a different direction as he is just a small child he is amazed at how amazing they are to even give him mercy. When the Russian come and rape people he is happy as hell that finally people dressed in garbage clothes like himself are so powerful and is happy that his kind of people can undo the Nazi control of his country. What happens to the first girl he loves is absolutely horrible, but the story is still so epic it deserves nearly being in the top 25 books I've ever read.
Spiderman was my hero as a child. He skydived out of an airplane and landed in my recess playground at my elementary school. I also liked Hulk, but Superman was a better movie than any Spiderman movie until this latest one which was just epic and made it to the top ten best movies I've ever seen. I jumped out of an airplane in college to do what my hero Spiderman did when I was a kid and to see Spiderman have to deal with what happened to me at 14 years old with my first love in the sense of forgetting about him blew my mind. All the girls I know were so mad that Spiderman didn't tell her about him, but I understood it entirely. The next movie has to be Spiderman in college meeting his best friend again and being teased by his girlfriend who doesn't know him and having to deal with an evil villian, but also finding the Avengers are trying to take him on for his ability to control Tony Starks technology and them not understanding why as nobody knows Spiderman. That would be so intense.
Wish I could find the right version of "Who will Love my Children?" so I could put that on my list of favorite movies, but the only one I am able to find is the wrong version.
I really love the way you talk about books and LOVE that you read excerpts from these ones 🥰 we have a few in common for books that have made us cry; a man called love, a monster calls, anthropocene reviewed! some other books that made me cry include a little life (I was FULLY sobbing), and the mountains echoed, and salt to the sea.
I will certainly be scoping out the ones I haven't read from this list.
NEVER CLICKED SO FAST OMG 😭 i have been waiting for your upload im so happy
Aww thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it 😊
Tuesday's with Morrie
Where The Red Fern Grows
Pax
Ditto !!
Where the Red Fern Grows - OMG I forgot that one. I feel the younger generation today won't reading due to the hunting theme.
Pax has my whole heart
I cried my eyes out reading A man called Ove too. Cried and laughed at the same time.
Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque made me sob. I'm talking ugly cried.
You should read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It's set in WWII. Dual storylines but they come together about a third of the way through. It made me cry so much and gave me new perspective on the German people in that war time. It is just so good! I think you will really like it.
She’s so poetic ❤ “It left me in a river of my own tears”.
The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. I cried so much with this book. But it was totally worth it. 📖
I loved this book and somehow don't remember much of it. I'm definitely due for a reread!
The Little Prince is definitely a masterpiece. I love it so much.
Last year I read Lonely Castle in the Mirror and it made me cry quite a bit.
Another book that is known to make people weeping their eyes out is The Traveling Cat Chronicles.
(Both books I mentioned here are Japanese Lit, btw). Hope you'll like it!
Wow. Just found your book tube channel. Immensely enjoyed the content, and I love your vibe. I definitely hit the subscribe button.
Saving video because both the presentation and comments are so 👌
I cried all through Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H Mart." This is now one of my favorite books of all time, but I cannot reread it for at least another few years because of how much of an emotional wreck I became.
What a great idea for a video! Love your videos and art from India. I have so much adoration for you.❤
Thank you so much! Love from New York 😊
Welcome🥰
i can’t wait for part 2 with all the responses. i said tess in your instagram box but omg villette also devastated me
The last pages of Villette 😢
I think "Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent is the book that has made me cry most in my life. It's one of those books where you know where it's going to take you, and yet when you reach its destination, it's just so heartbreaking and well-done. Had me bawling.
What a perfect, wonderful list, Carolyn! I'd put The Grapes of Wrath and The Diary of Anne Frank on this list. ❤
The book thief. And I don't cry easily. 🤗❤
Having seen your recent February review, it reminded me of the John Green book "The Fault In Our Stars" and that was a devastatingly sad sorry. Also "The Boy Called It" was another emotive sorry and a very hard read.
I listened to the Anthropocene podcast as it was being released. Hearing John narrate his sad and beautiful essays was so much more affecting. One of my favourites was on Jerzy Dukek and "You'll Never Walk Alone".
'Ove' audiobook downloading as I type. Thanks, Carolyn.
A box full of good recommendations!
When you asked to recommend you books that have made us cry, the first book that came to mind was the Anthropocene Reviewed as well because it is the last book i read that has made me cry so much and in so many different chapters! I already loved John Green from when i was younger and through his videos but this book was so amazing and I can't wait to reread it and cry again (and I highly recommend the audiobook as well because he is the narrator so it was very comforting to hear him narrate it!
I recommend Leo Tolstoy's short story "Alyosha the Pot" its only like a dozen pages but man it took me by surprise! Have a great week Carolyn and friends :)
i've cried with every single backman novel i've read, he truly has a death grip on my emotions and knows how to tug at my every heartstring 😭
Currently I'm reading Beartown by Backman - that one is breaking my heart. Song of Achilles made me cry - worse I was actually holding my breath and had to tell myself to breathe lol
i never cried with a book! ice queen princess 👸 but i def cry with movies and tv shows
Ice queen princess 😂 love that for you!
Same for me. Can we share the crown? 😄
@@elodie_k221b of course!! 🤣
Cuore by Edmondo de Amicis. I read this book when I was a child, and return to it so many times. and it hits me every single time
I cry like a little baby with On Earth we're briefly gorgeous!! Ocean Vuong writes soooo beautifully!
Enjoying your video :)
it makes so much sense that you should have read for children - now I know why your reading out loud reminds me so much of my mom reading childhood books :)
the last book that made me cry was Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marilier
Merle’s Door: Lessons from a free thinking dog… this was a beautiful heartwarming piece of nature writing and I read it on a flight and sobbed uncontrollably….
A must read if you love dogs and the great outdoors.
"We're talking about how much we love crying at books..." I wish I had such a friend! My friends don't have the same taste in films and books so I barely share with them, but I can go on very enthusiastically when someone shows interest in a piece of work that I love.
I repress my emotions in front of people, and my friends/classmates usually perceive that I am chilled, or very calm. Only when I watch films and read books that I let myself go free and I can ugly cry at stories when I'm alone, and they are a form of 'therapy' for me, actually (although invest too profoundly when I am not in a good head space can backfire, but that barely happens).
I heard many people recommended Backman, including you, so I was sure that I'd love his books. Well, little did I know how crazy I'd go for them. Even 'smaller' works, such as "The Deal of a lifetime", can bring me to tears, he surely became my favorite contemporary writer. I also think the translations for his books are amazing because although I read them in English, I also heard a lot of people who read the book in my native language praising him, which, I guess, also means that the original idea/storytelling is incredible and universally touching.
I also want to recommend a book called "My Sweet Orange Tree" by Brazilian writer José Mauro de Vasconcelos, if you haven't read it. When it was published in my country people literally went crazy. I saw it everywhere, and I see a lot of reviews on many platforms I was a bit patronized, but only until I read it that I saw why it had such an influence. I think readers who love children's stories would love it, since it is sweet, funny at times, touching at other moments, and to me, it is both sad and very beautiful.
'At Swim Two Boys' by Jamie O'Neill broke me in a major way.
More recently, 'On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous' (Ocean Vuong) would be the one I'd recommend.
I do love a book which can hit me hard emotionally, so thanks for thinking to do this 😊❤
I cried so much all the way through Bleak House! I also cried at the end of both Cloud Cuckoo Land and All the Light We Cannot See, such beautiful books! And I have to mention a book that makes me cry on every reread (since I was 8) - Goodnight Mr Tom.
"As long as the LEMON TREES grow" by Zoulfa Katouh 😭😭
"The stationery shop " and obv Fredrik backman's
There have been many books that have made me tear up and even cry a bit, but there’s only one book I can think of that made me audibly sob. It was Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson. Seriously made me ugly cry. There are parts of the book that can drag a bit (so many detailed technical descriptions of logging!), but if you can get around that, I think the read is so worth it. I found the book beautiful overall. Such emotive writing in many parts.
6:36 Books that made me cry: all of Jeff Zentner’s books esp. The Serpent King and Goodbye Days, Gone with the Wind, The Little Prince, also The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- The Picture of Dorian Grey (Chapter 13. Who knows knows)
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
- Metamorphosis by Kafka
- Anna Karenina (due to various scenes but the most because the part with Levin's brother)
- The Winternight trilogy by Kathrine Arden
And to add the book series that made me cry the most in my middle grade years: Warriors by Erin Hunter
...and there are so much more I can't think of atm
Many many books that's made me cry
Ending from.. tale of 2 cities, grapes of wrath, pyre, Anna karenina, etc
The last books that made me sob were My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises (Frederik Backman), and To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf).
I've seen The Giver in middle schools in Canada too.
14:48 yes, I cried with Never Let Me Go.😢 what a wonderful beautiful book!
the last book that made me cry is a thousand splendid suns
Absolutely, stayed with me for a very long time
Yep, Ove always gets me too. Slightly off point, there are two romcom films always get me as well: You've Got Mail, and the Thomas Crowne Affair (the re-boot tho the original is quite excellent). As you may have heard, men don't cry so much but that's a foible of mine and I'm big enough now not to worry about how it makes me look. Thx Carolyn - always a pleasure.
I read Tuesdays with Morrie for my 12 grade Lit class. Usually hated reading stuff in school because it felt like work but also they would usually pick some boring stuff to read. Tuesdays with Morrie though is something that still sticks with me. It is a beautiful book and even reread it a few years ago (in my 30s now) and some stuff hit even harder with that reread.
The book that made me sob uncontrollably was A Little Life. I’m always up for books that make me cry. So cathartic. I agree with Tess too. It’s my all time favourite book. Thomas Hardy is a genius.
We Are Okay By Nina LaCour , Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan , Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson & The book thief by Markus Zusak
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer and The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
The Line Tender by Kate Allen made me cry. It also had lovely charcoal drawings of sharks, which I very much enjoyed. Would recommend if you want to weep.
I cried so much reading Flowers For Algernon and Nothing New on the Western Front, but it was a while ago. I haven't cried at books for ages, sadly 😞
Emotional books can be so challenging , but so cathartic.... Most recently I was hegging at 'Young Mungo' by Douglas Stuart and 'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan. Usually I don't cry at films, but the adaptation of her story 'Foster' ('The Quiet Girl') left me devastated.
The last book that made me cry was A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick. The heartbreaking story of the author behind the book couldn't leave me unperturbed.
Also, what made me cry: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Last Leaf (O. Henry), Escape Attempt (Strugatsky).
A Scanner Darkly 😢 I cried at the end of the movie as well. Of Mice and Men left me sad and made me think a lot about it, but I did not cry.
I am currently reading A Scanner Darkly. TBH, I am find it hard to finish; I am just not into the drug culture. This feels like a very dated Cheech and Chong movie, in book form.
I guess with two recommendations here, I will finish it.
I cried so much reading the A Monster Calls that you mentioned. I found it very sad for some reason
The most recent thing I wept at was “The Last Leaf” - a short story by O. Henry. For those who did not read it in school, I would also strongly recommend Night by Elie Wiesel!
this made me really want to reread "the little prince" 🥺 i was in 3rd grade when i read it so i only remember it as little bits and pieces of the boy's life, but it's such a beloved book that whenever i think of it i'm just very curious to pick it up again as a 21yo
I cried at the end of „every colour of you“ 😩
Chapter 17 ~ 20 of "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" ripped by heart and had my eyes bawled out😭 It is the second book after "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom that ever made me cry (Yes I don't cry easily)
Carolyn you must read "The hen who dreamed she could fly" by Sun-Mi Hwang! I don't cry easily at all but this book invoked the tears 🥺and all the characters are anthropomorphized animals so its right up your alley!
I have tears right now remembering reading the last few pages of Les Miserables. I almost couldn't see because of the tears. I'm going to read that book again some day.
I don't often cry at books but the two that come to mind that have made me cry the most are:
- Flowers for Algernon
- Gone with the Wind (that ending omg)
I sobbed listening to The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah narrated by Julia Whelan.
I agree about Fredrik Backman. Most recently, I listened to Beantown and had to stop the narration several times to take a break for the way I was feeling. I didn't cry, but my eyes got watery several times, I felt like my heart was squeezed, and I felt that I needed deep breaths to breathe...
Others books that made me cry:
The Book Thief
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Man Called Ove
The Nightingale
The Wish
Finding Me
Gone With The Wind and Thornbirds😊❤
I sobbed with “When All Is Said” by Anne Griffin. Very underrated book as well!
I cry very easily as well!! My husband always asks Why are you crying now? I cried while reading "Clover Girls" by Viola Shipman. Definitely cried with " The man called Ove."
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Wit by Margaret Edson. The film with Emma Thompson is amazing as well
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Kristin Lavrandsdatter by Sigrid Undset
Red Shoes for Nancy by Marguerite Hamilton
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When I first saw this title I was thinking about a monster calls, it’s such a beautiful devastating story
Nobody’s Boy by Hector Malot, and And Everyday the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman has me sobbing every time ❤😢
Also The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo, Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor, and Legion: Lies of the Beholder by Brandon Sanderson
There are lots of reasons for tears: sad tears - loss of love (death or departure), happy tears - such as reuniting of loved ones, tears of frustration, such as betrayal, etc.
Five Non-fiction recommendations:
1. The Glass Castle (yes, I will continue to beat that drum)
2. Marley and Me (dog book)
3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
5. Angela's Ashes (get the audio book by the author- that is a MUST)
Five Fiction recommendations:
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (a top 10 book for me)
2. The Book Thief
3. The Road (I thought this one made you cry so much that you couldn't finish... I figured that'd be a reason to put at #1 on this list),
4. Where the Red Fern Grows (middle grade dog book),
5. Bridge to Terabithia (have you never read this????)
The two latest weepers for me were “Peace Like A River,” by Leif Enger and “The Reading List,” by Sara Nisha Adams. Among many-doesn’t take much!!
I also really really love books that made me cry
A list of my own cry books
- looking for alaska
- the book thief
- rule of wolves
- all the light we cannot see
"Where the Red Fern Grows," "Soldier Dog," "The Book Thief," and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" made me ugly cry 😢 😂 I recommend those books if you want to feel miserable yet happy while crying your eyes out and having a sad smile on your face. Because I sure did 😂
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith made me cry by the end. Its a very tragic tale over greed and how money corrupts people.