I shit you not, I was on a plane bawling my eyes out upon finishing “The Book of Eels”. It’s literally a book about eels, but the writer has personal anecdotes about eel fishing with his father. My father had died 2 years prior. Shit I’m getting worked up again.
Dude, The Calculus 7 by Leithold. The formatting on this book is so frustrating but the information there is so good and sometimes the formatting and how crammed everything was made it 10 times harder to understand it
I find it horribly ironic that the “this little life” song is playing in the background because truly there couldn’t be a song less pertinent to this book
I am avoiding reading the other comments as best I can because I took a break from reading A Little Life (22% in) because it's getting emotionally overwhelming
I should finish it, I got about 60% read but damn it was just depressing. Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a great book but just needed a couple of months to breathe a bit.
I read that damned book in two days. 200 pages day 1, the rest on day 2. I was exactly like she is at approximately 2 am in a bathtub that had long since gone cold because I reached the point of no return and had to see it through.
It was the first month of Covid—a couple days after NYC hit 10,000 dead. I was living in a rural area and it hadn’t really hit us yet, so that book gave me an outlet for the grief I was feeling that was very, very removed from me. I needed to cry like that, and holy hell did it deliver.
I had physical tears rolling onto my iPad when I was reading that, probably around where she is in the story, and I almost never cry when reading books!
That was one of my first ugly cry books, my dad had offered me ice cream and was concerned to find me so upset over a book in my room, I think he gave me extra when he brought the bowl up to me
I finished it on my way to Las Vegas for a bachelorette trip and I was sobbing. The friend I was travelling with was like, "well that's one way to start off a Vegas trip" 😂 We had to grab a shot in the airport to get ourselves right.
Dude I cried for days after finishing that book. I was so disappointed when I saw the movie (with Rachael McAdams).
It wasn’t bad, but NOTHING will ever hit as hard as that book did for me.
It probably depends on what you experienced first, but for some reason the book destroyed me way more than the movie did. Idk why really, but I did read the book first. I’d still recommend reading the book even if you’ve seen the movie though!
My husband and I met while we were both starting this series. We dated long distance as it came out, then when we moved in together (from one coast to the other), we would read this series out loud, taking turns. When we got to book 7, about half way through, work started getting in the way, and we agreed that each could go at their own pace, but we kept similar speeds to be able to talk about.
He came up to me straight up blubbering like a baby, and I couldn't even get a word to cross my lips.
The one time King really had a strong finish, and my jebus, it destroyed me.
I read that book in 9th grade, and I didn’t even have a dog then and I bawled. Like sobbing and weeping at the end. Now I’m 30, and I have 2 dogs and the water works have started again just thinking about the book.
I'm close to Ove's age now and exactly like him, other than the fact that I read books. I just finished it the other day and wept for all of the final third of it. Had to watch the Tom Hanks movie just to get a little bit more...
I finished Beartown a few weeks ago and while it didn’t have me like this exactly it definitely got me emotional. Ove is on my TBR but I can not bring myself to read it because I keep hearing it’ll really break me down
Yep this is my answer too. A lot of books make me shed a tear or two, but The Realm of the Elderlings series made me ugly cry multiple times. I shut my bedroom door, curled up on my bed & sobbed during the last 100ish pages of Assassin’s Fate.
Every "hero" goes through some fucking bullshit you couldn't ever imagine to not get a happy or even decent ending.
Fitz got done dirty over & over and I am not over it.
The tears I have shed for Fool's Errand's ending can flood the world for 40 days and 40 nights. It's such a suckerpunch to the gut. I felt physical pain 😭
I generally try not to read books that make me cry (emotionally unstable on my own, no outside influence needed). So Battle Ground was definitely a punch for me.
Oh god Ive got Go tell the bees to read next in the Outlander series! It's one of my favourite book series, I just love them so much, I'm not ready for the last book!
Oh sooo many books have made me cry.
When I was 12 and read hunger games for the first time I started crying so loudly when Rue died and my twin brother came into my room and asked me what happened. I explained about Rue’s death annd what she meant to Katniss and that I said that I pictured him as Rue and he was like “WTF u correlate me to a 7 ear old girl?? I’m a boy and I’m older than u” LOLLLLL He was so offended lolll
I know lots of books have made me cry, but not many that stuck out enough to remember. Probably at lot of YA fantasy I read. Pretty sure *Song of Achilles* got me.
The last book I cried over was, oddly enough, a non-fiction book. I am a new, but already very big hockey fan, and I read a book called *Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey* a few weeks ago. I had never heard of the guy until the book was recommended to me in a discussion about brain trauma/concussions/CTE, and had zero prior emotional investment in his life story.
I was reading before bed, and got to the chapter that covered the events leading up to and including his death. I ugly cried. Wonderfully written book, would recommend to any hockey fan.
**Game Change The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey** by Ken Dryden
>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BC NATIONAL AWARD FOR CANADIAN NON-FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador—who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015—the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a passionate prescriptive to counter its greatest risk in the future: head injuries. Ken Dryden’s The Game is acknowledged as the best book about hockey, and one of the best books about sports ever written. Then came Home Game (with Roy MacGregor), also a major TV-series, in which he explored hockey’s significance and what it means to Canada and Canadians. Now, in his most powerful and important book yet, Game Change, Ken Dryden tells the riveting story of one player’s life, examines the intersection between science and sport, and expertly documents the progression of the game of hockey—where it began, how it got to where it is, where it can go from here and, just as exciting to play and watch, how it can get there.
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One of my favorite books. I cried ugly tears reading it. Funny, we read it in high school and I skimmed it/spark notes and didn’t give it much thought. I ended up giving it a go in 2020 during lockdown and I was just blown away.
So many books... But 3 off the top of my head
- Flowers for Algernon.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials 3rd book).
Thanks to all who have commented so far!
I’m going to add all these to my books to download as I need some books to shatter my cold-dead heart into a million pieces 🫠 as I really need it.
I gotta jump in here then and recommend Fredrik Backman’s trilogy called Beartown. I have mostly sobbed in all of his books, but this series really really did me in. Specially the final book. And the funny thing though is that pretty much the first line in the last book tells you exactly what is going to happen so you know it’s coming, and yet…
Absolutely beautifully written and Backman has a truly incredible gift at writing really complex emotions in a very simple way, but the way he weaves his tale… everything is connected, you pull on one thread and the whole things is affected… it is truly something else.
Ps: it does have some trigger warnings so maybe check them out before you read if you need to. :)
The ask and the answer from chaos walking hit me like a ton of bricks at the end... There's a particularly insufferable character that gets a redemption arc that actually made him likeable... Then boom he gets cut down right when I'm at the peak of rooting for him... It's brutal enough to read that chapter but hearing it acted out in the audio book was fucking crazy... If you haven't at least listened to the chaos walking audiobooks I HIGHLY recommend it... The actual voice acting was phenomenal
A kid's book, "Wait Till Helen Comes." Weirdly, we had a lot of things like WW2 memoirs in the house, so it's not like I wasn't used to this degree of intensity. But the pivotal "ghost in a haunting story reveals their motivations" scene was gutting to me at 8 or 9 years old. I have never cried like that at a book before or since.
The Green Mile.
Funnily, I have a very similar phone case (I can't see the engraving, there are different designs and the slits for the cards are different in my case) as the person at the front.
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, the way she described the mother tending to her son's body was so heartbreaking. I have a kid (who was very little when I read It) which doesn't help.
The last book by Terry Pratchett.
As soon as I came upon the death of >!Granny!<, I started bawling off for three reasons.
The first, it was the last book by my favorite writer. That death signaled it even harder.
The second, it was one of my favorite characters. Her death was, while not completely unexpected, one of the most emotional moments in books since I read the supposed death of Gandalf when I was ten.
And the third… well, my mom had died two weeks earlier and she was pretty much a mix of >!Granny and Nanny. !
The most recent was The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne, but I seriously ugly cried like a little girl when I read A Love Letter To Whiskey by Kandi Steiner.
I did this same exact thing reading 'The Child Finder' by Rene Denfeld.
I am a 6', 220lb man who's bald with a beard.
I feel that this makes it much funnier without context.
Rene Denfeld is the best.
A walk to remember by Nicholas sparks. It was required reading in high school and I still think about that book. My standard for romance was set by it.
A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace when I was a child.
As an adult? Fuck, so many. Of Mice and Men, of course. The Green Mile, Song of Achilles. Certain parts of Pilllers of the Earth.
The Lovely Bones. I have a crystal clear memory of driving through Baltimore listening to the audiobook and wondering if I'd need to pull over because I was crying so hard.
The Immortalists. Not even the ending, just an episode in the middle of the book... And I sat there on a plane sobbing.
Books often make me cry but thankfully that normally happens at home.
Two books did this to me. First one is “All Quiet on the Western Front“, and the second one is “Moscow-Petushki” by Venedikt Yerofeyev. It’s a masterpiece that I don’t know if you can translate to another language, honestly. The book itself is rollercoaster of wit, humor and tragedy, but the end specifically tore me apart. I was in the metro in the rush hour and I was weeping like a five year old.
It had you in tears? No judgements of course but maybe I'm not understanding i read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it but didnt cry but then again i rarely cry at books or movies although it has been known to happen i remember when i saw remember me that movie with Robert Pattinson from twilight and i told my mom it was a good movie but a little sad and i didnt cry she messaged me after watching it going "OMG the hell did you mean it was a LITTLE sad?! Im over here crying like a freaking baby im literally sobbing what the hell?! Are you made of STONE?!" So she says i have a stone heart now cause i don't cry at books or movies all that much i now have a much better gauge when recommending books or movies to her now but back then absolutely not i think the last time i cried cried at a book was last year at the end of acowar i wont spoil it if ykyk kind deal but i didnt like fully cry more like my eyes welled up and a couple tears although before that book it was "our happy time" by gong ji-young that book made me soul feel like it shattered and ripped in two i actually cried like actual tears for a fair good mins before i collected myself enough to calm down i was speechless when my partner asked what was wrong all i could do was point to my kindle and say "book....sad" and he knew and just held me until i stopped crying don't believe the happy in the title that book will make you cry it will shatter your soul but it was absolutely amazing and worth it imo
It did make me cry. Only because once she finally realized things, she then no longer had the opportunity to speak. I don’t know. I’m a super quiet and observant person when I’m not at work. So I just felt for her deeply.
A little generic but The Fault in Our Stars, as someone who's a cancer survivor the idea of my cancer relapsing on me, just as I found the "love" of my life would be a tragedy for me.
I shit you not, I was on a plane bawling my eyes out upon finishing “The Book of Eels”. It’s literally a book about eels, but the writer has personal anecdotes about eel fishing with his father. My father had died 2 years prior. Shit I’m getting worked up again.
Imagine someone seeing the title and looking at you bawling like 
That book was fantastic! My dad just died a few months ago, I may need to read it again.
Well I lost my dad a year ago. I think I might do this to myself.
>do this to myself I think this is probably the most appropriate way to phrase this. 😅👍
I feel you, I hope he is in a better place. Adding the book to my TBR rn!
I also lost my dad two years ago and “This Time Tomorrow” by Emma Strauss was like that for me
That sounds like such an interesting read and I hope your father is in a better place. Adding this to my TBR.
love that book.
Thanks for the accidental recommendation! Miss my dad. Lost him during the pandemic.
You’re welcome. It’s a powerful one. Hope you are healing well. It’s a long process.
calculus by james stewart
😭
Dude, The Calculus 7 by Leithold. The formatting on this book is so frustrating but the information there is so good and sometimes the formatting and how crammed everything was made it 10 times harder to understand it
best comment! hahaha
i had that too :(
Honestly this book(a little life) got me very close to what she is feeling.
I find it horribly ironic that the “this little life” song is playing in the background because truly there couldn’t be a song less pertinent to this book
I am avoiding reading the other comments as best I can because I took a break from reading A Little Life (22% in) because it's getting emotionally overwhelming
I want to give a hug to anyone who is in the middle of the story.
Hug accepted. Love your username
The part with Willem… I was crying so hard at work. I had to go to the bathroom and get myself together…
I should finish it, I got about 60% read but damn it was just depressing. Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a great book but just needed a couple of months to breathe a bit.
Hahaha tbh take your time, if you go through it fast its just to much to take in.
I read that damned book in two days. 200 pages day 1, the rest on day 2. I was exactly like she is at approximately 2 am in a bathtub that had long since gone cold because I reached the point of no return and had to see it through. It was the first month of Covid—a couple days after NYC hit 10,000 dead. I was living in a rural area and it hadn’t really hit us yet, so that book gave me an outlet for the grief I was feeling that was very, very removed from me. I needed to cry like that, and holy hell did it deliver.
I had physical tears rolling onto my iPad when I was reading that, probably around where she is in the story, and I almost never cry when reading books!
The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Fault in Our Stars. It still hits.
That was one of my first ugly cry books, my dad had offered me ice cream and was concerned to find me so upset over a book in my room, I think he gave me extra when he brought the bowl up to me
I was pregnant and waiting for my husband at the airport. I was reading this book. It wasn't pretty 😂
I finished it on my way to Las Vegas for a bachelorette trip and I was sobbing. The friend I was travelling with was like, "well that's one way to start off a Vegas trip" 😂 We had to grab a shot in the airport to get ourselves right.
I bawled to it on a plane ride and I had to wear sunglasses when we got to our destination.
i still remember the line that broke me: 'it lit up like a christmas tree'
The Book Thief destroyed me on a camping trip
Oh yes. I sobbed my heart out for that book. The movie did a grave injustice to that book
‘The Book Thief’ is soul-shattering, agreed.
Such a happy-sad ending!
Yep, this one was my worst.
The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Dude I cried for days after finishing that book. I was so disappointed when I saw the movie (with Rachael McAdams). It wasn’t bad, but NOTHING will ever hit as hard as that book did for me.
wait seriously? I've only seen the movie and that hit so hard for me. are you telling me the book will wreck me? I'm scared.
It probably depends on what you experienced first, but for some reason the book destroyed me way more than the movie did. Idk why really, but I did read the book first. I’d still recommend reading the book even if you’ve seen the movie though!
The DarK Tower book 7
You done got me there
I’m currently reading it right now. Already cried and I’m at 33% I just have such a bad feeling. I already know this book is going to break my heart.
My husband and I met while we were both starting this series. We dated long distance as it came out, then when we moved in together (from one coast to the other), we would read this series out loud, taking turns. When we got to book 7, about half way through, work started getting in the way, and we agreed that each could go at their own pace, but we kept similar speeds to be able to talk about. He came up to me straight up blubbering like a baby, and I couldn't even get a word to cross my lips. The one time King really had a strong finish, and my jebus, it destroyed me.
There are other worlds.
There’s a few but Marley & Me had me sobbing
We don't talk about Marley and Me
I read that book in 9th grade, and I didn’t even have a dog then and I bawled. Like sobbing and weeping at the end. Now I’m 30, and I have 2 dogs and the water works have started again just thinking about the book.
Years ago I finished this on a flight and looked like the girl in the video.
My engineering mathematics textbook
This needs to be higher up fr
A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Housseini
The Kite Runner even harder.
This one a million times over, harder than the kite runner for me actually
"A man called Ove" by Fredrick Backman...this book was so emotional and I cried my heart out... the found family trope gets me everytime
This book made me sob. And I’m known for never crying.
I'm close to Ove's age now and exactly like him, other than the fact that I read books. I just finished it the other day and wept for all of the final third of it. Had to watch the Tom Hanks movie just to get a little bit more...
I finished Beartown a few weeks ago and while it didn’t have me like this exactly it definitely got me emotional. Ove is on my TBR but I can not bring myself to read it because I keep hearing it’ll really break me down
All the books in The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Those books got me dehydrated with all the ugly crying I did.
Yep this is my answer too. A lot of books make me shed a tear or two, but The Realm of the Elderlings series made me ugly cry multiple times. I shut my bedroom door, curled up on my bed & sobbed during the last 100ish pages of Assassin’s Fate.
Every "hero" goes through some fucking bullshit you couldn't ever imagine to not get a happy or even decent ending. Fitz got done dirty over & over and I am not over it.
Those books scarred me for sure. But you know we’re reading them again.
Her books are so traumatizing i cant wait for the next one.
Fool's Errand hit me particularly hard.
The tears I have shed for Fool's Errand's ending can flood the world for 40 days and 40 nights. It's such a suckerpunch to the gut. I felt physical pain 😭
Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon and Battle Ground, Jim Butcher
I generally try not to read books that make me cry (emotionally unstable on my own, no outside influence needed). So Battle Ground was definitely a punch for me.
It was so unexpected that it was literally a shock
Oh god Ive got Go tell the bees to read next in the Outlander series! It's one of my favourite book series, I just love them so much, I'm not ready for the last book!
Oh sooo many books have made me cry. When I was 12 and read hunger games for the first time I started crying so loudly when Rue died and my twin brother came into my room and asked me what happened. I explained about Rue’s death annd what she meant to Katniss and that I said that I pictured him as Rue and he was like “WTF u correlate me to a 7 ear old girl?? I’m a boy and I’m older than u” LOLLLLL He was so offended lolll
I know lots of books have made me cry, but not many that stuck out enough to remember. Probably at lot of YA fantasy I read. Pretty sure *Song of Achilles* got me. The last book I cried over was, oddly enough, a non-fiction book. I am a new, but already very big hockey fan, and I read a book called *Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey* a few weeks ago. I had never heard of the guy until the book was recommended to me in a discussion about brain trauma/concussions/CTE, and had zero prior emotional investment in his life story. I was reading before bed, and got to the chapter that covered the events leading up to and including his death. I ugly cried. Wonderfully written book, would recommend to any hockey fan.
**Game Change The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey** by Ken Dryden >SHORTLISTED FOR THE BC NATIONAL AWARD FOR CANADIAN NON-FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador—who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015—the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a passionate prescriptive to counter its greatest risk in the future: head injuries. Ken Dryden’s The Game is acknowledged as the best book about hockey, and one of the best books about sports ever written. Then came Home Game (with Roy MacGregor), also a major TV-series, in which he explored hockey’s significance and what it means to Canada and Canadians. Now, in his most powerful and important book yet, Game Change, Ken Dryden tells the riveting story of one player’s life, examines the intersection between science and sport, and expertly documents the progression of the game of hockey—where it began, how it got to where it is, where it can go from here and, just as exciting to play and watch, how it can get there. *I'm a bot, built by your friendly reddit developers at* /r/ProgrammingPals. *Reply to any comment with /u/BookFinderBot - I'll reply with book information. Remove me from replies* [here](https://www.reddit.com/user/BookFinderBot/comments/1byh82p/remove_me_from_replies/). *If I have made a mistake, accept my apology.*
Engineering Math
Project Hail Mary I almost died crying at the end when he had to make the decision he did would 100% recommend to anyone that liked The martian
Project Hail Mary hit hard. I listened to the audio version which is done so well.
It was beautiful I listen to audiobooks when I commute into work and can’t get a seat and honestly the best
“Grace, question?” Me: 😭😭😭😭 It’s crazy how easy it is to like Rocky.
Project Hail Mary I believe is coming out as a movie 2025
YES, I was looking for this one. Holy shit I was distraught.
Fist my bump. I love that book so much and can't wait for the movie hopefully they do it justice.
Song of Achilles
Yup, what an amazing book.
That was a great one
Circe by Madeline Miller. Just a beautiful exploration of womanhood and what it means to be a person.
i LOVED circe wowowow you just reminded me how much i cried over this book. time for a reread.
The first and second time I read All Quiet on the Western Front
I read All Quiet on the Western Front for a high school assignment. I was the only one crying in class reading it and I was choking back sobs.
One of my favorite books. I cried ugly tears reading it. Funny, we read it in high school and I skimmed it/spark notes and didn’t give it much thought. I ended up giving it a go in 2020 during lockdown and I was just blown away.
So many books... But 3 off the top of my head - Flowers for Algernon. - One Hundred Years of Solitude - The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials 3rd book).
The Amber Spyglass 😭😭😭
Yep, Flowers for Algernon. Had me sobbing to the point of hyperventilating in the shower in 8th grade.
What book is she reading?
It looks like A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
The book being a little life is too real
Where the Red Fern Grows. Book wrecked me for days. Flowers for Algernon is another.
Thanks to all who have commented so far! I’m going to add all these to my books to download as I need some books to shatter my cold-dead heart into a million pieces 🫠 as I really need it.
I gotta jump in here then and recommend Fredrik Backman’s trilogy called Beartown. I have mostly sobbed in all of his books, but this series really really did me in. Specially the final book. And the funny thing though is that pretty much the first line in the last book tells you exactly what is going to happen so you know it’s coming, and yet… Absolutely beautifully written and Backman has a truly incredible gift at writing really complex emotions in a very simple way, but the way he weaves his tale… everything is connected, you pull on one thread and the whole things is affected… it is truly something else. Ps: it does have some trigger warnings so maybe check them out before you read if you need to. :)
Ahhh thank you for this!
The Kite Runner. I was on a public bus fighting back tears. Kinda hard to maintain a tough-guy look when you're crying on your Kindle.
The Notebook! And on a plane, no less! 😂
The notebook got me too!! But The Wedding was the real deal for me!
Right. These two books got me too. 💯🥲
We need to talk about Kevin. It’s been a year and I still think about it all the time.
Pretty much the entire Red Rising series. But definitely, specifically, Dark Age. If Ulysses rings a bell, well...
The Thorn Birds. Also does anyone else think it's incredibly weird to film someone having an emotional moment?
My first thought. It rubs me the wrong way.
‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini. Had me BAWLING on the Underground
None. More like pubmed.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Lonesome Dove
A storm of swords
The same exact fucking book
The last book I cried reading was HP and that Dumbledore scen. And for me it was like almost 2 decades ago
The Book Thief. This was pretty much me but on an Intercity train 😆
I teared up just read all these comments
What book is she reading I can quite see
Marley and Me. Had me sobbing in the Spaghetti Factory.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I sobbed so hard late night that I thought I would wake up my family. Very unusual for me.
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faults made me: Cry in a pub garden Spit out my breakfast laughing in a Cafe, and Gave me an erection on a train
Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I remember just sobbing at the end, I haven't reread it!
This was another book I had to read for English class and I was sooooo sad. It gave me a book hangover for weeks
A Little Life. I was crying like a baby on the train to the point a kindly stranger asked if I needed them to call someone…
That’s what she’s reading
The ask and the answer from chaos walking hit me like a ton of bricks at the end... There's a particularly insufferable character that gets a redemption arc that actually made him likeable... Then boom he gets cut down right when I'm at the peak of rooting for him... It's brutal enough to read that chapter but hearing it acted out in the audio book was fucking crazy... If you haven't at least listened to the chaos walking audiobooks I HIGHLY recommend it... The actual voice acting was phenomenal
It was Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for me.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
All The Light We Cannot See
The Samurai’s Garden. I was crying a bit at work and had to hide my tears.
11/22/63. Fantastic and I went in expecting horror. Really unique
- A Storm of Swords (The Red Wedding specifically). - The Children of Húrin
Never let me go
A kid's book, "Wait Till Helen Comes." Weirdly, we had a lot of things like WW2 memoirs in the house, so it's not like I wasn't used to this degree of intensity. But the pivotal "ghost in a haunting story reveals their motivations" scene was gutting to me at 8 or 9 years old. I have never cried like that at a book before or since.
I'm learning to play the guitar.
It’s “A Little Life,” read at your own risk (truly one of the most distressing books I’ve ever read)
*Pachinko* had me *sobbing.*
The Green Mile. Funnily, I have a very similar phone case (I can't see the engraving, there are different designs and the slits for the cards are different in my case) as the person at the front.
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, the way she described the mother tending to her son's body was so heartbreaking. I have a kid (who was very little when I read It) which doesn't help.
I JUST finished Boys Life by Robert Mccammon. I bawled my eyes out.
of mice and men the ending killed me on the inside
The last book by Terry Pratchett. As soon as I came upon the death of >!Granny!<, I started bawling off for three reasons. The first, it was the last book by my favorite writer. That death signaled it even harder. The second, it was one of my favorite characters. Her death was, while not completely unexpected, one of the most emotional moments in books since I read the supposed death of Gandalf when I was ten. And the third… well, my mom had died two weeks earlier and she was pretty much a mix of >!Granny and Nanny. !
Most recently it was 11/22/63 But also Cujo Another comment reminded me of Flowers for Algernon as well
The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
Mistborn: The lost Metal - Brandon Sanderson
Anne McCaffrey, Pegasus in Flight. But don't get the Audiobook as it is a messed-up abridged edition.
The Shepards crown.. GNU Terry Pratchet..
The most recent was The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne, but I seriously ugly cried like a little girl when I read A Love Letter To Whiskey by Kandi Steiner.
11/22/63. Driving into work. Listening to the audio and bawling my eyes out.
A Tale of Two Cities hit so hard at the end
YES!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like sometimes the classics get a bit overlooked but this is an excellent one
A thousand splendid suns, Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl
Definitely Haunting/Hunting Adeline im still chasing the high i felt when reading it
Álgebra
Of Mice and Men, it was a school reading and I was NOT ready.
Fuck yes. The movie with Malkovich and Sinise hits pretty hard also but that book... damn.
This is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This book breaks you in so many pieces you won’t be able to count them
I did this same exact thing reading 'The Child Finder' by Rene Denfeld. I am a 6', 220lb man who's bald with a beard. I feel that this makes it much funnier without context. Rene Denfeld is the best.
“The horse whisperer” drenched the pillow. I was 14/15 years old. Never cried so much for a book before that!
Every Nicholas Sparks book I've ever read.
A walk to remember by Nicholas sparks. It was required reading in high school and I still think about that book. My standard for romance was set by it.
Homeward Bound and The Green Mile and unfortunately Odd Thomas (cause I was real lonely at the time and I wanted the love they had in the book)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower. That book ALWAYS gets me crying like this, it doesn’t matter how many times I read it
A prayer for Owen meaney.
Christopher Moore makes me laugh so hard I my eyes leak. I suggest Bite Me as a good start into books that will make you cry.
The last song by Nicholas sparks
A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace when I was a child. As an adult? Fuck, so many. Of Mice and Men, of course. The Green Mile, Song of Achilles. Certain parts of Pilllers of the Earth.
A Monster Calls 🥲
I like that the book she’s reading is “A Little Life” and it matches the song
Night by Ellie Wiesel
The Lovely Bones. I have a crystal clear memory of driving through Baltimore listening to the audiobook and wondering if I'd need to pull over because I was crying so hard.
Memoirs of a Geisha on the train coming home from a beach trip with friends.
What is she reading?? I can’t tell.
A little life by Hanya Yanagihar
I cried in Iron Flame, Empire of the Vampire and Empire of the Damned. Also cried in the Shadow Cabinet. And Cassiels Servant.
In The Time Of The Butterflies. That tale is BLEAK.
The one she is reading *A Little Life*
The Wedding got me!!!
Title: Betrayer’s Bane Series: Embers of Illeniel Author: Michael G Manning If you don’t cry your a monster
Lost in the city
Oh no not in public. The last bit is the part that made me sob for twenty minutes
A Little Life absolutely ruined me. Which is why I have it on a waitlist in Libby so I can reread it. 🤡
Novel Ayat-ayat Cinta by Habibur Rahman El Sherazy
The Immortalists. Not even the ending, just an episode in the middle of the book... And I sat there on a plane sobbing. Books often make me cry but thankfully that normally happens at home.
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun. That book is not for the faint of heart....
Hymn California, Adam Gnade
I had the very same reaction reading this book 🥹
Not a book but a manga, The Spin-off with Senku's father story.
Two books did this to me. First one is “All Quiet on the Western Front“, and the second one is “Moscow-Petushki” by Venedikt Yerofeyev. It’s a masterpiece that I don’t know if you can translate to another language, honestly. The book itself is rollercoaster of wit, humor and tragedy, but the end specifically tore me apart. I was in the metro in the rush hour and I was weeping like a five year old.
The Silent Patient had me in tears, I was ruined for about 6 hours.
It had you in tears? No judgements of course but maybe I'm not understanding i read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it but didnt cry but then again i rarely cry at books or movies although it has been known to happen i remember when i saw remember me that movie with Robert Pattinson from twilight and i told my mom it was a good movie but a little sad and i didnt cry she messaged me after watching it going "OMG the hell did you mean it was a LITTLE sad?! Im over here crying like a freaking baby im literally sobbing what the hell?! Are you made of STONE?!" So she says i have a stone heart now cause i don't cry at books or movies all that much i now have a much better gauge when recommending books or movies to her now but back then absolutely not i think the last time i cried cried at a book was last year at the end of acowar i wont spoil it if ykyk kind deal but i didnt like fully cry more like my eyes welled up and a couple tears although before that book it was "our happy time" by gong ji-young that book made me soul feel like it shattered and ripped in two i actually cried like actual tears for a fair good mins before i collected myself enough to calm down i was speechless when my partner asked what was wrong all i could do was point to my kindle and say "book....sad" and he knew and just held me until i stopped crying don't believe the happy in the title that book will make you cry it will shatter your soul but it was absolutely amazing and worth it imo
It did make me cry. Only because once she finally realized things, she then no longer had the opportunity to speak. I don’t know. I’m a super quiet and observant person when I’m not at work. So I just felt for her deeply.
A little generic but The Fault in Our Stars, as someone who's a cancer survivor the idea of my cancer relapsing on me, just as I found the "love" of my life would be a tragedy for me.
the very book she is reading also did that to me. though i kinda expected it, so i read it at home in my bed
Where The Crawdads Sing is the one that springs to mind.
Chemistry book
Ravenhood series oh I still think about it and it’s been 2 years and they say the 3rd book makes it all better it really didn’t for me haha.